greet with derision by most critic when it first appear and frenzy have recently do the round of uk tv . i remember see it on it original release and and think then that if hitchcock want to parade some kind of screen confession about his ingrained misogynism and he couldn not have find a nasty little vehicle to do so . but time alters perspective and and so what be nauseatingly bad in 1972 might and all these year later and be worthy of upward re evaluation . might . . . but not . frenzy be dross . the dross of an age director who desperately want to exploit the artistic freedom of 70 movie making without seem to realise that freedom impose it own obligation notably and the need to bring integrity to one work . there none here . and not much evidence of the early directorial brilliance and either the switch from spine tingle implicit to odious explicit be neither shock nor and for a supreme stylist and stylish represent it just banal ( the prolong murder scene be precisely that represent prolong and without pace and without reason and without purpose other than the cheap of directorial desire to appear a contemporary an artiste a and say and that other acclaim practitioner of cheap sleaze and michael winner ) . and it go from bad to worse and with dialog that defy any human provenance ( not least in the ludicrous diversion into the home life of our dear wooden inspector and and his wife cooking ) . perhaps the scene that best sum up frenzy ( and endure a the most explicit indictment of hitchcock persona ) be the clunk exchange between two lawyer in a bar and where they discuss the serial killing and then agree that at least the woman have a good time first by be rap . i remember my revulsion at that scene back in 72 and and it still undimmed and because this wasn not hitchcock be clever and or sardonic and or try to make some universal point ( big theme and big truth and be not hitchcock forte and nor personal preference . ) it be just hitchcock and allow a reflection of his own distorted mirror on life to shine through the texture of the movie . call frenzy hitchcock last great masterpiece be to betray little if any understanding of just what hitchcock actually achieve in the way of cinematic trickery and cinematic thrill and and dazzle cinematic mastery . frenzy be therefore now what it always be represent a cheap and nasty and and ham fisted movie that do no service to any of those involve and or to the memory of a film maker who really be and in his hollywood day and one of the great there have ever be .