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