This is not as good as the 1962 version by a long shot. And the gratuitous casting of all the major characters from that version done here is just cringey. Max Cady, 133, heads to Cape Fear, 36 three sixes, to terrorize a former lawyer who represented him and seemed to not fight too hard. I don't remember the suppression of evidence angle in the 60s version though.
This version is much more violent all around, has a lot of jerking camera and blaring audio splices to give a more extreme aspect to it whereas the 60s version was much more psychological terror. It also didn't have the christian defamation aspects that are evident here all over. So this is a nasty movie and the original is much much better. Just an indication of how bad the quality of movies have gone down past the 1960s or so.
I didn't care for the gratuitous Juliette Lewis casting either. There was a time in the 1990s where she? Was cast almost exclusively as the naive accomplice to some psycho and here we have her? As the naive daughter. The 60s version had a little child who could be intimidated more easily, JL just plays a childlike character here, not very convincingly either.
I wouldn't recommend it really if you like a more sophisticated version go for the first one. I suppose if you like the stars it might appeal, didn't care for either of the leads nor the bizarre casting of all the major male leads from the original in different roles. What is this some sort of indication of how everyone just moves to other roles as they age? So the first psycho played by Mitchum is now lawyer friend if I remember right? Etc weird.
This version is much more violent all around, has a lot of jerking camera and blaring audio splices to give a more extreme aspect to it whereas the 60s version was much more psychological terror. It also didn't have the christian defamation aspects that are evident here all over. So this is a nasty movie and the original is much much better. Just an indication of how bad the quality of movies have gone down past the 1960s or so.
I didn't care for the gratuitous Juliette Lewis casting either. There was a time in the 1990s where she? Was cast almost exclusively as the naive accomplice to some psycho and here we have her? As the naive daughter. The 60s version had a little child who could be intimidated more easily, JL just plays a childlike character here, not very convincingly either.
I wouldn't recommend it really if you like a more sophisticated version go for the first one. I suppose if you like the stars it might appeal, didn't care for either of the leads nor the bizarre casting of all the major male leads from the original in different roles. What is this some sort of indication of how everyone just moves to other roles as they age? So the first psycho played by Mitchum is now lawyer friend if I remember right? Etc weird.