Frenzy Frenzy Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer was based on the novel "Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square" by Arthur La Bern. 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 plot centres on a serial killer in contemporary London and the ex-RAF serviceman he implicates. In a very early scene there is dialogue that mentions two
The Girl Who Played with Fire (film) Nyqvist "could not be better" in their roles, the film needed to acknowledge the middle ground between the righteous heroes and the evil villains in order to work better as cinematic pulp fiction. Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" gives the film 3 out of 4 stars. Rick Groen of "The Globe and Mail" describes the film as "Tepid and downright confusing" for those who have not read the books, although he suspects there are few who have not; he notes that the plot, "already thick on the page, often seems impenetrable here." Although he concedes the plot generates some suspense,