Overview

• Netflix did not include Copycat in its official release announcements, yet the 1995 thriller rapidly climbed into the platform’s most-watched films.
• Sigourney Weaver stars as agoraphobic criminal psychologist Dr. Helen Hudson who teams up with Holly Hunter’s Inspector Mary Jane Monahan to pursue a copycat killer.
• Directed by Jon Amiel, the film underwent extensive post-production revisions with Frank Darabont contributing new scenes and initially grossed $79 million from a $27 million budget.
• Copycat holds a 76% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and is praised for its tense atmosphere and pioneering focus on female investigators in a serial killer narrative.
• Although it was overshadowed by David Fincher’s Seven upon its 1995 release, the thriller built a cult following through VHS word-of-mouth before its digital resurgence.