Max Cady komt na 14 jaar voor mishandeling vrij en zoekt de advocaat op die toen bewijzen heeft achtergehouden die hem vrij hadden kunnen pleiten. Hij bedreigt de advocaat die met wettelijke middelen zijn vrouw en dochter van bijna 16 (dezelfde leeftijd als het slachtoffer) wil beschermen.
Nee, helaas is Cape Fear nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Production | Ellen Lewis | Casting |
| Production | Frank Marshall | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Freddie Francis | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Martin Scorsese | Director |
| Production | Barbara De Fina | Producer |
| Production | Kathleen Kennedy | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Thelma Schoonmaker | Editor |
| Writing | Wesley Strick | Screenplay |
| Art | Alan Hicks | Set Decoration |
| Writing | John D. MacDonald | Novel |
| Art | Jack G. Taylor Jr. | Art Direction |
| Art | Henry Bumstead | Production Design |
| Camera | Phillip V. Caruso | Still Photographer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Donna Battersby Greene | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Edouard F. Henriques | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elizabeth Lambert | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lyndell Quiyou | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dorothy J. Pearl | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Edouard F. Henriques | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rita Ryack | Costume Design |
| Sound | Kathy Durning | Music Editor |
| Camera | Gordon Hayman | Camera Operator |
| Lighting | Gene Engels | Gaffer |
| Crew | Leon Delaney | Stunt Coordinator |
| Directing | Corey B. Yugler | Script Supervisor |
| Crew | J.B. Jones | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Lighting | William Hines | Rigging Gaffer |
| Sound | Skip Lievsay | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kathleen Gerlach | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Crew | Neal Martz | Makeup Effects |
| Writing | James R. Webb | Original Film Writer |
| Sound | Elmer Bernstein | Conductor |
| Crew | Don Pulford | Stunts |
| Production | Dianne E. Collins | Publicist |
| Crew | Donna Evans | Stunt Double |
| Sound | Bernard Herrmann | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Elmer Bernstein | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Joseph P. Reidy | First Assistant Director |
| Sound | Marissa Littlefield | Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | T.J. O'Mara | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Philip Stockton | Supervising Dialogue Editor |
| Art | Wally Adee | Assistant Property Master |
| Art | Richard Adee | Property Master |
| Crew | Doug Coleman | Stunt Double |
| Sound | Tom Fleischman | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Marko Costanzo | Foley Artist |
| Sound | William Docker | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Sound | Kenton Jakub | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Sound | Frank Kern | Foley Editor |
| Sound | Tod A. Maitland | Production Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Sylvia Menno | Assistant Sound Editor |
| Sound | Bruce Pross | Foley Supervisor |
| Sound | Gail Showalter | ADR Editor |
| Sound | Steven Visscher | Foley Editor |
| Art | Elaine Bass | Title Designer |
| Art | Saul Bass | Title Designer |
| Directing | Nathalie Vadim | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Deborah Lupard | Second Second Assistant Director |
| Art | Michael Calabrese | Set Dresser |
| Art | Robert Crowley | Set Dresser |
| Art | Adrian Gorton | Assistant Art Director |
| Crew | Marcia Holley | Stunt Double |
| Crew | Daniel W. Barringer | Stunts |
| Crew | Billy Judkins | Stunts |
