Cape Fear is an Apple TV+ psychological thriller that reimagines the story first told in John D. MacDonald's novel The Executioners and famously filmed in 1962 and again by Martin Scorsese in 1991. Developed by showrunner Nick Antosca, the series counts Scorsese and Steven Spielberg among its executive producers, lending Hollywood pedigree to a modern, expanded take on the material.

Javier Bardem stars as Max Cady, the vengeful ex-convict played on screen by Robert Mitchum and Robert De Niro, who fixates on the family of a lawyer he blames for his imprisonment. Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson play the couple whose lives Cady systematically invades, as the series stretches a taut two-hour premise into an eight-episode slow burn of intimidation, manipulation, and mounting dread.

Debuting in June 2026, the series uses its longer runtime to deepen the cat-and-mouse dynamic and to depart in significant ways from the earlier films, building to a divisive, talked-about finale. Anchored by Bardem's menacing performance and Adams's fraught heroine, it became one of Apple TV+'s signature dramas of the year. Cape Fear streams on Apple TV+.