By far the most uncompromising and gory of the many adaptations of the play, and its viciousness is perfectly preserved by Criterion.
Despite flashes of punk rawness, Gibson’s winter-of-discontent musical drama can barely tap the glass, let alone break it.
With a very strong cast and sharp dialogue by Anthony Shaffer, Frenzy is easily the strongest of the master’s final works.
Family Plot may be Hitchcock's official swan song, but the nasty, nasty Frenzy is the real last hurrah.