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Psycho killer, qu'est que c'est? Formerly titled Going West in America, this ambitious thriller about an obsessed FBI agent and a clever serial killer does its best to avoid the cliches of the genre. It stocks up on character business over sordid stalk-and-slash tableaux, which would be more satisfying if the characters were a bit less broadly drawn. There's a killer on the road, a slasher whose personal grudge against FBI agent Frank LaCrosse (Dennis Quaid) led him to kidnap LaCrosse's small son and then kill himself in a fleabag motel. Or so it appears: LaCrosse believes the psychopath is still alive and using the child as bait in a lethal game of c...