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Frenzy (1972)

This is the first movie that Hitchcock filmed in England since Stage Fright in 1950, and would end up being his last filmed in his native country. His project marks a great controversy among fans.  Was Hitchcock too old and too worn out to be creating masterpieces anymore?  Or was he in true creative form and exploring resources and ideas that he's never had an opportunity to use before?

The film is very graphic and violent and earned Hitchcock his first, and only, MPAA "R" rating. It follows a man, down on his luck and broke, who is accused of a string of serial murders. He spends a good part of the film trying to evade the police, but is eventually caught and put in jail. At his sentencing he learns the killer's true identity and breaks out to have his vengeance.

Hitchcock has always used a number of consistent themes or symbols to represent an idea; like his matching of birds and chaos. He has also used food and eating in a lot of his films and like the movie The Birds, where birds become a major defining factor in the story, this movie gives food the center stage. Characters in the film waste food, gorge themselves on it, make up uneatable creations with it, and make a living with it.  But unlike birds, the food doesn't seem to carry one constant theme.  The symbolism is built into each usage in each scene.

The final picture is another brilliant one that most Hitchcock fans have embraced.

(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock)

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