The Reel Rejects - CAPE FEAR (1991) IS TERRIFYING! MOVIE REVIEW!!!

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

SCORSESE'S CHILLING THRILLER OPUS!! Cape Fear Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects With ROBERT DE NIRO in The Alto Knights, Andrew Gordon & Tara Erickson give their Cape ...Fear Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, & Spoiler Review!! Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects Download the PrizePicks today at https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/RE... & use code REJECTS to get $50 instantly when you play $5! Grab a NEW Daredevil-inspired Hallway Hazard Tee at https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Join Tara Erickson and Andrew Gordon as they dive into Martin Scorsese’s 1991 thriller, Cape Fear—a film that redefines psychological terror and suspense. In this riveting tale, vengeful ex-con Max Cady (Robert De Niro, celebrated for his iconic roles in Taxi Driver and The Godfather Part II) embarks on a relentless quest for revenge against his former defense attorney, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte, known for his compelling performances in The Thin Red Line and 48 Hrs.), and his unsuspecting family. The tension escalates as Jessica Lange (from Blue Sky and Fried Green Tomatoes) delivers a formidable performance as Leigh Bowden, while Juliette Lewis (renowned for her work in Natural Born Killers and other intense dramas) brings raw vulnerability to the role of Danielle Bowden. Our hosts break down every chilling moment—from Cady’s unnerving confrontations and the suspenseful, rain-soaked scenes to the film’s unforgettable final showdown that has cemented its place in thriller history. Experience the masterful blend of psychological warfare and intense character dynamics as we analyze how Cape Fear continues to captivate audiences with its bold storytelling and unforgettable performances. Follow Andrew Gordon on Socials:  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MovieSource Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/agor711/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Agor711 Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:03:01 Tara, how are you feeling? Dude, that movie was freaking great. It's so disturbing. These special effects were amazing. Obviously, the acting on point by every single one, I mean, I'm like, give them all an Oscar. Honestly, all of them deserve recognition for the acting. And that's how I really think you get a movie,
Starting point is 00:03:26 this off the ground to where it's like 10 out of 10, uh, everybody loves it because it's just so well acted, so well shot. I have never seen shots like that where they're in a boat and the camera is turning around and they're using slow motion pickups of the water that it almost makes the audience. You feel like you're with them. Like you're disoriented. You're like I don't even know where we are right now. All of it, I mean, phenomenal. This movie's freaking great. Yeah, I would echo all those sentiments you just made. As I mentioned right when we started this review, this was a fascinating project, not only for Scraise and De Niro right after Goodfellas, because Goodfellas, I think we can all agree, is one of the greatest films ever. I mean,
Starting point is 00:04:19 I know I said it's one of my favorite films. It's well known as one of the of the greatest movies of all time. Yes. And it's a crime drama. So to go from a crime drama to a suspenseful thriller horror like this film again, I think it just shows. You mean with De Niro? And Scorsese.
Starting point is 00:04:36 Yeah, I think it just shows that they are very talented. They've got range. They can do any kind of genre. And I just think it was a fascinating choice. I really enjoyed this movie at the same time. They did what they set out to do. It made my skin crawl at times. absolutely terrible and again all the performances phenomenal like jessica lang she really stood
Starting point is 00:04:59 i mean again they were all terrific especially a young juliet louis standing up with deniro and lang and all them like impressive for a young actress that's not easy to do um and jessica lang there were some moments where she was really like acting her heart out and giving some emotional scenes and the beats were really there and i was really resonating connecting with her character Robert De Niro though That performance That is really a standout performance room Just because again I've seen him play villains
Starting point is 00:05:30 And creepy characters like one time We're just off the top of my head Tony Scott's 1996 film The Fan With Wesley Snipes Where he was quite a creepy but lonely character in that film Totally different performance again Showing off the versatility and the range And just the performances that he brings
Starting point is 00:05:47 But again this is a very different kind of creepy than that film. So he just went to a place I was not expecting. I think you made a great point when like at first I was like, I know he had the belt connected, but like I'm like, how is he have the street to hold on? And then right when you said,
Starting point is 00:06:06 wait, they showed us right away in prison, they showed us his strength, him doing the tricep dips. I'm like, okay, you're absolutely right. Now I do buy that. So I'm glad you made that point.
Starting point is 00:06:14 That was good. But they also, I think they did a great job. I don't know if this was a novel. I got to imagine, excuse me, possibly might have been, I have no idea. Maybe we'll see that in the trivia. What I will say is, I do find it fascinating that all the time he spent in prison was reminiscing and meticulously thinking of ways, how am I going to get back at this guy, even though he was
Starting point is 00:06:37 clearly in the wrong, even though, you know, he kind of went into the whole thing, like, what are the three things that a lawyer must abide by? I think Nick Nolte was obviously in the right, because once he found out his client was deranged and a lunatic and actually did do that disastrous evil deed to that woman's like, hey, sorry, dude, I don't care what the three laws are that the lawyer abides by with the client. I know what you did. I'm going to bury this whole promiscuous thing because I know this could look bad for this woman. And so I'm not going to let you get away with the technicality against her and for you to commit more atrocities like this. So Nick Nolte made the right call. And obviously
Starting point is 00:07:17 in Max Katie's eyes, he didn't care. He still felt betrayed. I understand that from his perspective, but he's an evil being that does not deserve to be amongst us in society. I mean, he should be in the ninth gates of hell, as he mentioned earlier. But again, I just like intelligent characters like this,
Starting point is 00:07:34 even though I don't root for them. I like seeing their motivation. But I like seeing meticulously intelligent characters. And the way he, again, he went to prison and he became so much, I mean, he was already ruthless, but even more ruthless he became really smart and sophisticated and like again his plan was so maniacal so scheming and when everything you saw the way it was slowly and i like that they took their time they didn't rush it in this yeah the way you saw it slowly coming back because we made a couple
Starting point is 00:08:03 predictions here and there we were right a little bit here and there but then the way it was coming about and i'm like ah i hate that he's doing this but this is genius too but i hate it but he again And the way he, like, again, had all this time to think about doing all these things to him. Like, hey, I'm going to get inside this guy's head. I'm going to get under his skin. So when he pushes me in the crowd, I've got witnesses. I know he's going to probably get, I'm going to go do that thing with his daughter at the theater. So I know that's going to get him like to probably get guys on me.
Starting point is 00:08:34 So he's probably going to get a, he's probably going to threaten me somewhere. I'll have the tape recorder ready to go. All these meticulous things that he did. I hate him. but again, I like intelligent characters as at the same point. It's fascinating. It's fun to watch them on screen as what I'm trying to say. Again, I don't root for them.
Starting point is 00:08:54 He's a disgusting puke, especially what he did to Benjamin as well. Yeah. I did not want him to survive, which I'm glad he didn't. But also, too, I like seeing the determination on the character. Like, nothing will stop him or get in his way unless he's like handcuffed to a sinking boat. But that was a fascinating. And by the way, I do agree with you. too. That makeup they had, he was already scary enough from the performance from De Niro,
Starting point is 00:09:18 which you give him credit for. That makeup that they applied to him. I don't know how long that probably took, but that was impressive. I don't know if today they would still use that prostate or they might just say, eh, screw it. Let's just do the CGI route, which I would hope they would not. I would hope they would still stick with this because that was really effective. Like that got, again, just more crawling under my skin. Yeah. But really affect, a really incredible film. Amazing performances. I thought the storytelling was really well done. And again, this really had me asking the question as an audience member, how often does this, again, we know the fact that he betrayed his client, rightfully so, in my opinion. I think we can all agree that it was rightfully so unless you're an evil human being that has no soul. I wonder how often this sort of thing happens in real life. And then like, again, this sort of thing where the person is now, the previous client is now stalking either the defender. you didn't do a good job or you did betray me and this like this actually does sound i'm curious
Starting point is 00:10:18 about that type of thing you know probably does happen what i think this movie did a good job of is that um there's no plot holes right it's written really smart but every character also has a very smart payoff so in the beginning with them showing us the eyes of juliet right and her kind of narrating in the beginning and then we're cutting to to him in the prison we show the law books and we're showing that intelligence as well as the physical side of him so that the payoff for any time he he does anything we're like oh wait he because they's nick nulties like he didn't even know how to read but now we've set it up just with that one shot within 10 seconds he can read he's he's gotten really intelligent and he can be he's very physically fit now that carries us through to make
Starting point is 00:11:08 sense of everything that he's doing, that he would be able to be a step of head of all of them because you would assume once you hear when Nick says he couldn't read that of course now we're not going to treat him as a threat. He could barely read. How's he going to know that the PI, this thing, all this setup? They just didn't, they didn't know, right? Which is great. A really good payoff for De Niro's character. But what the best part is is that at the end, you're showing that these women are not weak women, which I like, right? They all have a very good payoff at the end. Juliette Lewis, she burns him. Hell, yes. Right? And then the mom, I always think that, that I'm like, if I was in that situation, do you manipulate them and you play along? And then when
Starting point is 00:11:56 they're vulnerable enough, you can kill them. I think about that all the time. If I was in a position. How could I act my ass off? And probably not. I don't know if I'd be able to do it. But I'm glad that they put Jessica Lang as that character. She's manipulating him so well as best she can. He doesn't really fully dive into it and he's not fully convinced. That's her path. She gets kind of close. And then the path with Nick Nolte is that he does at least get the handcuff around him. So we are seeing that they're at least all smart and intelligent. They're paying off to where it's not like, oh, why didn't they do this and why didn't they do that? Which, like, I can be bugged about that in horror films. Like, why didn't they do these things?
Starting point is 00:12:44 That I was not bugged about. They did all of the things that you would think rightfully so for a normal everyday human. This is what they are capable of. And it really paid off character-wise for them, which is why I think that this movie is like a perfect statement for cinema. I really do. Good call. It's a good call. I agree with everything you're saying. Also, too,
Starting point is 00:13:09 they did what Tara always wants. They went for the gun. Yeah. But I think he got it back just because the boat was rocking. So I know Tara was happy about that. Oh, yeah. I do agree with you. I also, too, I love the, in the face of great danger, Tara, mama bear come into the rescue and saying, hey, whatever you're going to do to her,
Starting point is 00:13:25 don't just do it to me. I think that. That was a beautiful statement, right? For sure. I mean, like, that's a scary situation. And obviously, you know, when we all get, I mean, obviously none of us have been in that situation. Obviously, I don't speak for you, the audience. But, like, in the face of great danger, like that, you don't know how sometimes you're going to react. So to see her, like, stand up to him and, like, stand up for your daughter and say, like, you know, don't put any harm to her, do it to me.
Starting point is 00:13:53 Like, I think that said a lot about her character. Yeah, for sure. And again, her act. in that scene that I was just connecting with her as someone who's very empathetic and very sensitive to like I was just like oh my god because that's what every mom would do they would say take me not her protective mama bear yeah no for sure and that manipulation it was it was really good I also will say too we were talking about how maniacal his plan was every single thing he did was so strategic like he always was playing 40 chess that was also crazy to what he did like because I at first I thought when uh you know Nick Nolte was was like hanging around with that girl with the racquetball, Lori. Yeah. I thought he was like going to take pictures with her and like, like use it to threaten him
Starting point is 00:14:34 against his wife said, I know what you're doing. Yeah. But I thought even this was even crazier. Yeah, totally. Yeah. But knowing that she works. She bit her face, bro. Like that, great makeup on that.
Starting point is 00:14:45 That effect. Great makeup. That special effect. That practical special. Yeah, that practical special effect on set. I don't know how the hell they achieved that, but that was impressive. What I was going to say, though, is, um, knowing that she. worked at his office knowing she is not going to testify and that he could do whatever he
Starting point is 00:15:02 wanted her and to get under Nick Nolte's skin. Yeah. Again, strategically maniacal is the best way I would use to describe this character. Yeah. It's quite a plan that this guy had. But he always knew how to improvise too. Something went a little askew in his plan. He knew how to, hey, that's fine.
Starting point is 00:15:20 I'm adaptable. I know how to come up with something really quickly on the fly. Yeah. So again, awful character. but fun to watch, at least performance-wise, from Robert De Niro. Incredible. Incredible performance. Totally. Did you have, or I can do trivia, but really quick, you know, I like to do this with you.
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Starting point is 00:18:47 Let's see, you're usually pretty good about this, Tara. I know you love this movie, so let's go. Oh, it seems like this was a remake. Oh. Oh, Gregory Peck was the original Nick Nolte and the original. Oh, okay. Yeah. Cool.
Starting point is 00:19:01 Yeah, because he said he played Sam Bowden. Because when I typed in Cape Fear and Rotten Tomatoes, let me to 1991. Let's see. Cape Fear. Okay, so Tara, what did Cape Fear do on Rotten Tomatoes with the critics? Okay. Critics. Critics score, I'm going to go for.
Starting point is 00:19:19 For 89%. 89. Okay. And then audience, I'm going to go for 85. Okay. So for critics, you said 89. It was 75. Okay. And then audience, what did you say again? I said 85. 75. 77. Okay. All right. All right. Really quick. Last one. And then we'll do some trivia really quickly here.
Starting point is 00:19:46 Let's do this. I'm curious what this did. just because it was coming off of Goodfellas So they were like Oh my God, let's see what we can do What do you think this film Just let's do Worldwide box office for Cape Fear
Starting point is 00:20:01 What it made? What it made? Worldwide box office Oh God This is hard I wonder what the budget was What was the budget? Give me a second
Starting point is 00:20:12 I feel like the budget Was probably like 10 million or something 21 budget Let's see. I mean, that might be lower. $35 million. Yeah. Okay, $35 million.
Starting point is 00:20:24 Then I am going to assume worldwide 100. Well, as of today, though, that's going to be so much more. I don't, I'm going to go with worldwide if they're saying like from then until now, I mean, it's got to be at least like. Just go from the $550 million or something. You're going with inflation numbers, right? Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:48 Just go with 1991 numbers. Okay. So then I think it's probably 110 million. You were very close. 182. Close. You know your stuff. Yeah, because today with inflation, I got to imagine that's in the 300-ish, 400-ish. Right. You guys let us know.
Starting point is 00:21:04 Anyways, let's get to the trivia. Let's see what we got here, Tara. So Tara, the thick accent that Robert De Niro used to play Max Katie reportedly gave Martin Scorsesey the creeps. As a joke, De Niro would call Scorsesey. says his house, leaving voicemails as Katie. That's great. Hey, Marty, Marty, when we're going to get set? I'm going to do this voice for you. You know what I mean, Marty? That's good. That's a good accent. Hey, thank you. Sometimes I do some good ones, you know? Although I don't know if I want to No, you really don't, but for that it was good. Yeah. Thank you. Originally in the scene where
Starting point is 00:21:39 Katie puts handcuffs on Lori, she was supposed to start freaking out. The actress Elena Douglas was the one who came up with the idea of having her character laughing and trying to play along instead. Wait, Elena Douglas. Is this the wrong trivia, wrong? Oh, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:21:56 They're talking about Lori. Yeah, sorry. Lori. I was blanking. Okay, got it. The one he bit the face off. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:22:05 Robert De Niro was tattooed with vegetable dyes, which faded after a few months. Oh. Damn. That's how they did it. Wow, that's smart for like, we don't have time to do this,
Starting point is 00:22:16 tatting someone up every day. Yeah. You are going to like this one a lot. Okay, what is it? The scene in the high school auditorium was shot in one take with two cameras. Ha ha ha ha ha. I knew you would like that one. I knew you would like that one.
Starting point is 00:22:33 So smart. And that was a long scene. One take? Damn, both of them. Yeah, because that whole take and a lot of this film felt very much like a play to me. I was going to say that did. That scene, as well as the. there's a few scenes in here that felt like a play
Starting point is 00:22:52 where I would not be surprised if they went through a rehearsal and they did one take. That's great. The climax was filmed inside a 90-foot water tank on a soundstage. It took four weeks to film. That's why it was so amazing. You guys, that's why I was freaking out
Starting point is 00:23:11 going like the cinematography. I literally got goosebumps. I didn't know how they filmed all of that because it's insane. Well, do you remember, too, we were also saying, like, I can't imagine how long this took to film. This looks ridiculously amazing. Yeah. That makes sense, four weeks.
Starting point is 00:23:27 Robert De Niro paid a dentist $5,000 to make his teeth look scutably bad for the role of Max Katie. After filming, he then paid $20,000 to have them fixed. Jesus. Gross. He's like, I will go method on this one. Dang, dude. Okay, then. Narnly.
Starting point is 00:23:45 Yeah. Robert De Niro's Katie act. Robert DeNiro. Rose Katie accent came from an earlier role where he played a southerner to prepare for the role De Niro Turk took excerpts of the script and a tape recorder into southern towns and would ask locals to read the lines into the tape. Smart. Wow. Yeah, I like that. Stephen Spielberg was originally set to direct. He later recommended Martin Scorsese for the job and personally called Scorsese, letting him know that this was a commercial film that had potential to be a hit, which would exercise more power for Scorsese. to make his films. Smart. I like that. That's awesome. The auditorium scene was originally scripted as a chase scene, but Martin Scorsese wanted it to be a seduction.
Starting point is 00:24:29 Yeah, it definitely was. That's why she's like, I barely, even at the very end, she's like, I don't dream about him that much anymore, which is like, that's, he got her. This was Gregory Peck's final appearance in a theatrical film before his death on June 12. 2012, 2003 at the age of 87. Oh, wow. Effective one scene that he had. Director Martin Scorsese's first choice for the role of Sam Bowden was Harrison Ford. He had Robert De Niro Call Ford to try convincing him to take the part.
Starting point is 00:25:05 After some consideration, he ultimately turned down the offer. I could have seen him playing it, but Warren Beatty, Jeff Bridges, James Kahn, Kevin Costner, Richard Gear, Mel Gibson, Dennis Quaid, Christopher Reeve, and Robert Redford were also considered. Wow. Those are all, I'm sure they all would have done a terrific job. I thought Nick Nolte did a great job, too. Yeah, yeah. The score by Elmer Bernstein is not only an arrangement of Bernard Herman's original Cape Fear score,
Starting point is 00:25:28 but also includes parts of Herman's unused score for the 1966 film Torn Curtin. Wow. Okay. Martin Scorsese read the original script three times while making Goodfellas and hated it each time because the Boutens were a happy family and he wanted them to be miserable. Makes them more relatable Because we're all miserable too Love that
Starting point is 00:25:50 The scene between Robert De Niro And Juliet Lewis In the school was shot In three takes now But the first one was used In final production That said earlier Was done in one take
Starting point is 00:25:59 Okay Make up your minds Drew Barrymore Screen Tested for the role Of Daniel Bowden Bowden however you say it But failed the audition She later said
Starting point is 00:26:07 She had acted All over the place And it was just The biggest disaster Of my life Well Drew Your career Still turned out pretty good
Starting point is 00:26:14 But I'm sorry you had a bad audition. We all do it. It's one day. Gregory Peck, who starred in Cape Fear, the 1962 version, also appears as Katie's lawyer. Yes, we know that. Let's get to like two spoilers. All right, we'll do two spoilers.
Starting point is 00:26:30 I thought Tara Wine made me to read every single one, which we would be here for 10 days. Okay, let's see. All right, we got two spoilers here. Let's pick. Okay. When Katie strangles Kerserk, who's played by Joe Don Baker, with the, the piano wire. Steven Spielberg suggested he be dressed up as the housekeeper while doing it. Wow. Very smart. Really good move. Yeah, that pulled us. I didn't know as him. I really thought that was
Starting point is 00:26:56 the housekeeper. Yeah. All right. Let me just pick which one I want to do here. Ugh. Okay. These are really both quick. Let me last two, I promise. Let's do it. In the auditorium scene between Robert De Niro and Juliet Lewis, it was De Niro's idea to put his thumb in her mouth. I think That, again, it was disgusting and creepy, but that goes well with his character. But also did you see, which it's very, very quick. It was really smart that when they were on the couch, probably three scenes after that, it was Juliette Lewis and Jessica Lang. And Juliette Lewis had her finger in her mouth. Oh, I didn't know.
Starting point is 00:27:35 It was a good call. And it's like, obviously we saw that she was like thinking about him. She was like, that is such a, it's so effed up. But it's very smart. Yeah, for sure. Last one. During Katie's death scene, he seems to be talking gibberish. He's actually speaking in tongues elated at the fact that he thinks he's ascending to heaven.
Starting point is 00:27:55 Yeah, totally. Love it. Wild. Any final thoughts? No, loved it. 10 out of 10. Great freaking job. Good follow up to Good fellas.
Starting point is 00:28:06 Definitely way different. Amazing performance by everyone, especially De Niro. Really incredible. Really shows how versatile he is. But guys, let us know in the comments. What did you think about Cape Fear as one of your favorite Scraise, De Niro Films? We'd love to hear your thoughts. If you stayed with us as long, seriously, we really appreciate you.
Starting point is 00:28:23 Much love. Stay safe out there. And we'll see you guys later.

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