If there's ever been a terrifying screen villain, it's got to be Max Cady. He's the sadistic, unhinged former inmate bent on getting revenge against the lawyer who put him away in “Cape Fear.” Robert Mitchum played Cady in 1962 and Robert De Niro portrayed him in a chilling 1991 remake.

In addition to Javier Bardem, the Cape Fear TV series stars Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson as Tom and Anna Bowden, the husband-and-wife attorneys who Max seeks revenge against. CinemaBlend’s Riley Utley watched Robert De Niro’s version for the first time recently, and still, she said she never could have predicted the show’s wild twists. She said:

Patrick Wilson and Lily Collias co-star in creator Nick Antosca's 10-hour take on the 1991 Martin Scorsese film.

Upon being released from prison, Max Cady (Javier Bardem) describes his behind-bars ordeal as “death by a thousand cuts.” That’s also a good summation of Cape Fear, a 10-episode Apple TV adaptation of John D.

The first look at the Apple TV thriller's concluding episode comes as the genre film festival unveiled its second wave of titles for its 30th edition.