Copycat

Copycat (1995) is a serial-killer thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jon Amiel and led by Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter. A killer is reenacting the work of history's most infamous murderers, one signature at a time.

Dr. Helen Hudson once lectured cops on serial killers. Then one strung her up in a restroom and murdered her bodyguard in front of her. Thirteen months later she's still locked inside her apartment, agoraphobic and self-medicating, when detective M.J. Monahan shows up needing her read on a fresh string of crimes. The Boston Strangler. Son of Sam. Bundy. Someone is copying them all, and the closer the pattern gets, the more it points back at Helen herself.

Amiel builds the tension out of psychology rather than gore, and the real draw is two women running the investigation while the men around them fall behind. Weaver plays fear from the inside out, no heroics, just a wrecked expert forced back into the room she swore never to enter again. Stream Copycat (1995) online on iFILM.