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Originally Posted by Janszoon
It's one of the creepiest, tensest movies I've ever seen. Time hasn't dulled its edge at all, or if has, I can't even imagine how terrifying the movie must have been when it was new.
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Odd how a movie can affect people differently. I enjoyed the original Cape Fear but found it a perfunctory pulp/trash B movie that I have never really wanted to see again.
I have always found John Huston's early films ripe for remakes. Key Largo and The Asphalt Jungle have a huge amount of subtext and complexity whilst still being lean and mean thrillers although saying that Mitchum is fecking brill in the original Cape Fear.