CONTENT WARNING: The films discussed this week contain scenes of sexual assault, which we felt we had to address.
A brace of violent psychological thrillers this week, starting with the 1962 J. Lee Thompson classic, Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. Shockingly edgy for when it came out, it was a new experience for 2/3rds of the GBR team, so the big question is, can a film that's pushing 60 still retain the power to genuinely unnerve, or have cinematic boundaries of taste and propriety moved on too far for it still to work?
Almost 30 years later, Martin Scorsese celebrated one of his highest grossing films with the remake, starring Nick Nolte, Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange and Juliette Lewis. Given the time in which it was made and coming straight after Goodfellas, the remake is immeasurably more graphic and explicit in its violence and malevolence, but with Scorsese throwing every cinematic trick in the book at it as well, is it just all too much?
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