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Frenzy
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1083
- IMDb #1322
- Rotten Tomatoes #1269
- Metacritic #239
- Letterboxd #1507
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1172
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1866
- Metacritic Critics #140
- Metacritic Audience #959
- Criticker #825
- Kinopoisk #1270
- AlloCiné #1534
- Trakt #1910
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 60, highest is Metacritic critics on 92. Critics average 90, everyone else 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
Details
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writer
- Anthony Shaffer
- Based on
- Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern
- Studio
- Universal Pictures UK
- Released
- 25 May 1972
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Budget
- $2.0M
- Box office
- $12.6M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 6 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Best Director 1973 | Best Director | Alfred Hitchcock | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Film 1973 | Best Foreign Film | Winner | |
| Best Motion Picture Screenplay 1973 | Best Motion Picture Screenplay | Anthony Shaffer | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture – Drama 1973 | Best Motion Picture – Drama | Nominee | |
| Best Original Score 1973 | Best Original Score | Ron Goodwin | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay 1973 | Best Screenplay | Anthony Shaffer | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor 1973 | Best Supporting Actor | Barry Foster | Nominee |
| Top Ten Films 1972 | Top Ten Films | Winner |
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8 awards — Frenzy
×| Best Foreign Film | Winner |
| Top Ten Films | Winner |
| Best Director | Alfred Hitchcock | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture Screenplay | Anthony Shaffer | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture – Drama | Nominee |
| Best Original Score | Ron Goodwin | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Anthony Shaffer | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Barry Foster | Nominee |