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I’m sceptical of remakes, but this new version of Cape Fear is incredible – and terrifying
I’m always sceptical of a TV series that stretches out a film-length story to 10 episodes, but this new adaptation of John D. MacDonald’s 1957 novel The Executioners – which was first made into a 1962 film starring Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck, and again in 1991 starring Nick Nolte and Robert De Niro – is a slick, clever update of the original.
With Martin Scorsese (who directed the 1991 film) and Steven Spielberg as executive directors, it’s no surprise this is a big-budget affair, and it looks incredible.
Once again set in Georgia, there are two attorneys who now are the target of the newly released con Max Cady. Anna Bowden (Amy Adams, most recently seen in Nightbitch) and her husband Tom (Fargo’s Patrick Wilson) were Cady’s respective defence lawyer and prosecutor. They met during Cady’s trial 17 years earlier for the murder of his wife and unborn child. (The icky rapist themes of the ’91 version have been changed.)
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Cape Fear review – Amy Adams and Javier Bardem’s immaculate update is a wild, wild ride
Bardem has the absolute time of his life terrifying everyone in this remake of the classic thriller. Itâs a masterclass in tension, sublime directing â and never forgets the power of a jump scare
âEver look around and wonder if we deserve all this?â a woman asks, standing by their sprawling mansionâs swimming pool with her handsome, ripped, fellow lawyer husband.
Ah me. Ah my. Welcome to the latest screen incarnation of John D MacDonaldâs taut psychological thriller, published in 1957 as The Executioners and now adapted for the third time under the title Cape Fear. Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck starred in the first, in 1962 â the former as the villain Max Cady, nursing an incandescent rage and obsessive desire for vengeance against the latter, as lawyer Sam Bowden, for for his role as key witness in a rape prosecution. Martin Scorsese directed a remake that had Nick Nolte as Bowden and a truly terrifying Robert De Niro as Cady in 1991. It introduced a few more moral grey areas but the battle remained between good and very, very evil as Cady sought to destroy Bowdenâs life and family in every conceivable way.
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