Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
The 1995 Sigourney Weaver movie Copycat is among the most easily overlooked original psycho-thrillers of the decade. Not only has Weaver cited the film as her best career performance, playing the agoraphobic criminal profiler traumatized by a near-fatal on-air execution, Helen Hudson, but the film also rebounded from significant rewrites and reshoots to nearly triple its budget at the box office. Let's talk about WTF Happened to Copycat!
The 1995 Sigourney Weaver movie Copycat is among the most easily overlooked original psycho-thrillers of the decade. Not only has Weaver cited the film as her best career performance, playing the agoraphobic criminal profiler traumatized by a near-fatal on-air execution, Helen Hudson, but the film also rebounded from significant rewrites and reshoots to nearly triple its budget at the box office. Let's talk about WTF Happened to Copycat!
