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.
| Camera | Freddie Francis | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Thelma Schoonmaker | Editor |
| Production | Ellen Lewis | Casting |
| Art | Alan Hicks | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Martin Scorsese | Director |
| Writing | John D. MacDonald | Novel |
| Writing | Wesley Strick | Screenplay |
| Art | Jack G. Taylor Jr. | Art Direction |
| Production | Barbara De Fina | Producer |
| Production | Kathleen Kennedy | Executive Producer |
| Production | Frank Marshall | Executive Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lyndell Quiyou | Hairstylist |
| Sound | Kathy Durning | Music Editor |
| Art | Henry Bumstead | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rita Ryack | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Donna Battersby Greene | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dorothy J. Pearl | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Edouard F. Henriques | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Edouard F. Henriques | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elizabeth Lambert | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Phillip V. Caruso | Still Photographer |
| Lighting | Gene Engels | Gaffer |
| Lighting | William Hines | Rigging Gaffer |
| Directing | Corey B. Yugler | Script Supervisor |
| Crew | Leon Delaney | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | J.B. Jones | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Sound | Skip Lievsay | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Camera | Gordon Hayman | Camera Operator |
| 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 |
| Sound | Philip Stockton | Supervising Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Marissa Littlefield | Dialogue Editor |
| Directing | Joseph P. Reidy | First Assistant Director |
| Art | Richard Adee | Property Master |
| Art | Wally Adee | Assistant Property Master |
| Sound | T.J. O'Mara | Boom Operator |
| 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 |
