COPYCAT directed by Jon Amiel (USA, 1995)
‘Copycat’ is yet another film about a serial killer. The fact that the two main characters are women raises expectations that you might get a new slant on a tired genre. Sadly this is not case.
This short review contains spoilers not to ruin your enjoyment but to save you the trouble of watching this mess of a movie.
Sigourney Weaver plays Dr. Helen Hudson, a criminal psychologist specialising in what makes educated and apparently normal men turn into deranged killers. In the opening scene, after one of her lectures, she almost becomes a victim herself and we see her literally hanging at the mercy of Harry Connick Jr. who plans to use a knife as an instrument of torture rather than singing one his schmaltzy songs.
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