Gabe Reviews Horror

This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #93: Frenzy (1972) Frenzy is a film that takes place in London during a rash of serial murders, where the killer has been sexually assaulting women and then strangling them with a necktie. The story follows Richard Blaney, a down-on-his-luck barfly with a checkered past, who gets pinned early on as the prime suspect in the Necktie Murders, and does his best to evade capture. But every time it seems like he's found a way out of the spotlight, he gets pulled right back in. Movies like Frenzy are the prime example of why I feel justified in giving entries like Repulsion a low score. Frenzy is long (115 minutes) and most of it is pretty slow-paced, but the characters are all fully-realized people and each of them clearly has more going on than what you see in any given scene. Could you imagine how much less interesting this film would be if Blaney spent most of his scenes just staring bla...