Apple's new thriller series has one of the scariest trailers ever – and a huge star in the lead
Cape Fear is surely going to hit big
I watch a whole heap of trailers in my working week, as part of keeping on top of everything coming to the best streaming services on the market, and few of those trailers make particularly lasting impressions. When they do, though, it tends to mean that the streamer in question is doing something right.
The show stars Javier Bardem in the main role, playing the frankly terrifying Max Cady, a longtime criminal who's spent years behind bars for a murder that he (surprisingly) didn't commit. He knows exactly why he was convicted, too, even if the audience is a little more in the dark, and it clearly involves his old lawyers, played by Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson.
When Max manages to get out of prison for presumably good behaviour, he starts to make good on years of promises to himself by terrorising the now established family of his lawyers. He doesn't leap straight to violence, though, choosing a scarier route instead by simply showing them that he's around and that he knows what they did to him. He even looks like he'll get close to their kids.
Throughout the trailer, we get glimpses of the violence that Max is capable of, but also the sins that others might have in their pasts, too. It's creepy stuff, with an equally unsettling soundtrack and a really careful use of green lighting and colours to give the whole thing a yucky, skin-crawling feeling.
I'm pretty sure this is going to be a hit for Apple TV, with a cheesy bit of gory fun being just about the worst it could be. We'll know more when it starts on 5 June, though, ahead of a weekly release schedule that could see it become a sleeper hit.
