Reviews

While Psycho held off on the reveal of its villain's true nature until its final scenes, Frenzy establishes the villain's true identity at a relatively early juncture, which does add a bit of an interesting cat-and-mouse dynamic as the audience frequently ends up being witness to the villain's murde...

Maybe Alfred Hitchcock was scarred as a kid from always taking the blame for his siblings' misdoings, or maybe he just had an irrational fear of being falsely accused of a crime, but the innocent-man-found-guilty is a recurring motif that he explored in several films (The 39 Steps, The Wrong Man, No...

Along with the familiar plot of an innocent man wrongly accused which was found in many a Hitchcock film (The 39 Steps, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Saboteur etc) there is the relationship between Blaney and Rusk that evokes feelings of Strangers on a Train's 'friendship' between Bruno and Guy.

Anthony Shaffer’s script is a terrifically wicked attack on sexuality, family life, and the sensationalism derived from the heinous crimes committed, even going so far as implicating the audience in its fascination with the murders.