Copykill
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|---|---|
| German title | Copykill |
| Original title | Copycat |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 123 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jon Amiel |
| script |
Ann Biderman , David Madsen |
| production |
John Fiedler , Arnon Milchan , Michael G. Nathanson , Mark Tarlov , New Regency |
| music | Christopher Young |
| camera | László Kovács |
| cut |
Jim Clark , Alan Heim |
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| synchronization | |
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Copykill (Original title: Copycat ) is an American thriller from 1995 . The Director led Jon Amiel , the writer wrote Ann Biderman and David Madsen . The main roles were played by Sigourney Weaver and Oscar winner Holly Hunter . The German dubbing was done by the dubbing company Interopa Film GmbH, Berlin, while the dialogue script and the dialogue direction were created by Lutz Riedel.
action
Psychologist Helen Hudson, who works as a profiler , is almost hanged in the toilet after a university lecture on serial killers . The perpetrator Daryll Lee Cullum kills a police officer.
13 months later, Helen hardly leaves her apartment because of agoraphobia . When inspector M. J. Monahan comes to Helen after the third case in a series of murders with her colleague Reuben Goetz and asks her for help, she initially refuses to cooperate. She looks at the photos reluctantly because she is reminded of her own fate.
When Helen creates a perpetrator profile , she recognizes a parallel to the Boston Strangler in the victim strangled with a stocking . By e-mail she receives a macabre video that points to the next victim, but self extinguished when the summoned by M. J. Reuben tried to save.
A little later, after a hippie festival , the police discovered the body of a young woman who was killed along the lines of the Hillside Stranglers . The murder of another woman in a car near a gas station is reminiscent of David Berkowitz . At the scene of the crime there is a message for Helen that contains the lyrics of the Police song "Murder by numbers".
That night, Helen found a severed finger in a book about Daryll Lee Cullum that had a personal dedication in her apartment . Cullum then claims via video to Helen Hudson that Peter Kürten delivered the book. A former fellow prisoner has contact with him. For the promise to get Helen a slip , he reveals the time and place of a meeting between the two.
In the event of a hostage-taking in the Presidium, Reuben is taken hostage. M. J. arrives by chance and is able to free Reuben from the hostage-taker with a targeted shot in the arm who is holding the gun, but he grabs the gun again and shoots Reuben. Therefore, the cops fail to catch the serial killer.
Helen realizes that the serial killer is following the order of the perpetrators from her lecture. Following the example of Jeffrey Dahmer , another murder occurs in which Peter Foley is identified as a suspect. The police are now trying to prevent a copy of Ted Bundy , who killed three young women in one night.
When MJ arrives at Helen, Foley has already kidnapped the psychologist to imitate the incident in the toilet and thus Cullum. There he tries to kill M. J. like the police officer at the time, but she wears a protective vest and initially fakes her death. Helen can escape to the roof this time. When Foley meets her there, M. J. wants to arrest him. As he draws his gun, M. J. shoots the serial killer with several shots (in contrast to the incident in the presidium).
Cullum ends up writing a letter to another serial killer ("Conrad") while in jail, offering advice in return for killing Helen as well, revealing that he helped the previous serial killer run his business in the hopes of Helen to be able to kill through him.
background
Filming took place in Los Angeles and San Francisco . Production costs amounted to about 20 million US dollars . The box office grossed $ 32 million in US cinemas and £ 2 million in UK cinemas .
The English title Copycat means "imitator". The German title Copykill is a pseudo-Anglicism that has no meaning outside of the film in either German or English.
Reviews
James Berardinelli described the film on ReelViews as "one of the best serial killer thrillers of all time" and compared it to the film The Silence of the Lambs . He praised the portrayal of Sigourney Weaver, although - as he wrote - he was not a fan of the actress. He described this performance as "the best" role of Weaver to date.
Roger Ebert compared the film in the Chicago Sun-Times of October 27, 1995 with the thriller Seven , but described it as less dark. He praised the portrayals of Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter.
Ulrich Behrens praised the "coherent" atmosphere and the "coherent" plot on filmstarts.de .
The lexicon of international films writes: “The blood-soaked details of the event and the uniformity of the story are staged and played against the grain in some scenes: two opposing female characters and the tension of a claustrophobic situation are more interesting than the dramatic clichés with which the film is about Attracts attention. "
Awards
Jon Amiel , Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter won awards from the 1996 Cognac Festival du Film Policier. Christopher Young was nominated for the Saturn Award in 1996 for film music .
Web links
- Copycat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Copykill in the online film database
- Copykill atrotten tomatoes(English)
- www.filmstarts.de: Copykill
- Discussion of the music
Individual evidence
- ^ Copycat German synchronous card index . Retrieved December 15, 2017.
- ↑ Film review by James Berardinelli
- ^ Film review by Roger Ebert
- ↑ Film review on Filmstarts.de
- ↑ Copykill. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 27, 2018 .