Cape Fear (1962 film)/YMMV

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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:

  • 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.

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.

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.
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