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Monday, July 3, 2023 at 9:00AM Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot?
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The first image suggests a college dramedy or some such but the last should cue you into the genre: thriller. Or, in this case, the overabundant subgenre of serial killer thriller. It's Copycat (1995) in which singer Harry Connick Jr (back in his 'expanding the multi-hyphenate celebrity' days) plays a serial killer terrorizing agoraphobic shut-in Sigourney Weaver. Holly Hunter co-stars. The serial killer genre exploded after 1991's Silence of the Lambs (which we've written about a lot) and not all of them are created equally. We remember Copycat as being a icky but good little thriller that was doomed to be wholly overshadowed the same year by an instant classic of the subgenre, David Fincher's Se7en.
Cláudio recently discussed Copycat (currently streaming on Hulu) in his Top Ten Sigourney Weaver performances article.
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Reader Comments (2)
It's not high art but a thoroughly enjoyable rewatchable thriller with 2 older female leads and a film where the man is the eye candy i'm speaking of the hotter than ever in this Dermot Mulroney.
It's interesting to see how different images can suggest various genres within the same film. "Copycat" (1995) indeed falls into the serial killer thriller genre, immaculate grid a subgenre that gained prominence following the success of "The Silence of the Lambs."