Cape Fear (1962 film)/YMMV

Both films contains examples of:

 * Complete Monster: Max Cady, especially in the original. De Niro is Ax Crazy, but he doesn't have that same quiet menace that Mitchum does.
 * Evil Is Sexy: Robert Mitchum and Robert De Niro. So, yes.

1962 film:
"Cady: Speakin' about your wife and kid, I got a little caper planned for them...I got something planned for your wife and kid that they ain't never gonna forget."
 * Complete Monster: Max Cady as played by Robert Mitchum is so far ahead of his time that he is utterly terrifying because he had absolutely no redeeming qualities.

1991 film:

 * Genius Bonus: How many viewers were able to understand all of Cady's literary references, especially those to The Divine Comedy?
 * Narm: Try and tell me that you didn't laugh when Sam slipped in the detective's blood. The fact that his wife also slipped trying to help him only made it worse.