Frenzy obsession (not Frenzied Obsession!)
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:40 am
Hi all. I imagine many of you, like me, are fascinated by Hitchcock’s Frenzy. (I think almost every site I’ve looked at has eventually done a version of it.) It is disappointing that he showed just one murder in full and teased us with only glimpses of the other three victims shown in the film, although I have no real complaints about any – the hooker in the bed at the end is almost as exciting than the office murder.
We know Rusk had several other victims, other than the four shown. Have any of you ever imagined in your mind or in print about these others?
If you are interested in Frenzy, could you please post on the following? I’d be delighted to read your thoughts.
1. Which modern actresses would you have playing the four victims, remembering that Brenda in the office is 37? (I’ve just looked up Barbara Leigh-Hunt on IMDB – I thought she was older at the time. How ungallant of me.) I myself am no longer up to date with actresses – would Elisha Cuthbert get a role?
2. Who was the girl in the river? What was her job? She’d obviously been sunbathing recently as she is tanned; you can see where her bikini has left parts of her body white.
3. The girl in bed at the end; I assume by the bangles she is wearing that she is a hooker, but what is her name and back story?
4. Any ideas on his other victims – names, professions, circumstances in which they met Rusk? (He killed two people he knew – Brenda and Babs. Was the secretary in danger – Monica Barling, played by Jean Marsh? I hope I’m not spoiling it for anybody but in the book it is she who ends up nude and strangled in Rusk’s bed, her own stocking around her neck.)
5. Any manips?
By the way, I would love to buy Frenzied Obsession but I’m afraid the thought police in the UK would track me down!
We know Rusk had several other victims, other than the four shown. Have any of you ever imagined in your mind or in print about these others?
If you are interested in Frenzy, could you please post on the following? I’d be delighted to read your thoughts.
1. Which modern actresses would you have playing the four victims, remembering that Brenda in the office is 37? (I’ve just looked up Barbara Leigh-Hunt on IMDB – I thought she was older at the time. How ungallant of me.) I myself am no longer up to date with actresses – would Elisha Cuthbert get a role?
2. Who was the girl in the river? What was her job? She’d obviously been sunbathing recently as she is tanned; you can see where her bikini has left parts of her body white.
3. The girl in bed at the end; I assume by the bangles she is wearing that she is a hooker, but what is her name and back story?
4. Any ideas on his other victims – names, professions, circumstances in which they met Rusk? (He killed two people he knew – Brenda and Babs. Was the secretary in danger – Monica Barling, played by Jean Marsh? I hope I’m not spoiling it for anybody but in the book it is she who ends up nude and strangled in Rusk’s bed, her own stocking around her neck.)
5. Any manips?
By the way, I would love to buy Frenzied Obsession but I’m afraid the thought police in the UK would track me down!