1. Frenzy (1972)
Forget Marnie, this was Hitch****’s last masterpiece. One of his most brutally violent films (it was actually his first R-rated film in the United States), Frenzy deals with a serial ****er who ****s and ******s his victims. While it only has one onscreen ******, it is full of violence and ***, even going so far as to have a brutally realistic **** scene! This is not your grandfather’s Hitch****! But the genius behind this film is not that it is violent, but that it largely implies violence that you never actually see. In fact, we know who the ******er is the whole time! It is the sickening feeling that we get when he approaches a new victim that makes the film suspenseful and thrilling. The ****er in question has been nicknamed by the press as the Neck Tie ******er, after the necktie that is used to strangle his victims. In reality, the ****er is a wholesale fruit merchant named Bob Rusk. He is impotent, and the only way he can get his rocks off is by raping and strangling women. Fortunately for him, the cops have another suspect in mind when the bodies of his victims start showing up. This man is Richard Blaney, a bad tempered bartender whose ex-wife was recently ****ed by Rusk. As in so many Hitch**** films, Richard must prove his innocence and find the real culprit. It features some truly grisly scenes, like when Rusk has to retrieve a piece of evidence from the dead hands of one of his victims. By the time he realizes what she is holding, rigor mortis has set in, and he has to physically break the bones in her fingers to get it out. Sickening, shocking, and thrilling, Frenzy will certainly shake you to your core more than any other film that Hitch**** ever directed.