1995 · thriller · crime · mystery
Copycat
Directed by Jon Amiel2h 4m1995
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
Our read: Copycat (1995) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · crime · mystery entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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