Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and was the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The film is based upon the novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern, and was adapted for the screen by Anthony Shaffer. La Bern later expressed his dissatisfaction with Shaffer's adaptation. The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and Vivien Merchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin. The film was screened... at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition. The film tells the story of a serial killer who rapes and kills several women in London, using his necktie to strangle them to death. The film has a couple of grisly key scenes. The rape and murder of Brenda makes use of numerous short edits in a similar fashion to the Janet Leigh shower scene in Psycho, and this serves to heighten the images of violence and horror. The murder of Brenda is the only murder depicted onscreen.
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| Release date: | 1972 |
| Directed by: | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 116 Minutes |
| Producer: | Alfred Hitchcock, William Hill |
| Editor: | John Jympson |
| Music by: | Ron Goodwin |
| Cinematography: | Gilbert Taylor |
| Screenplay by: | Anthony Shaffer |
| Estimated budget: | $3,500,000 |
| Adapted from: | Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square |
| Genre: | Thriller |