IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Cape Fear (1962)
Cape Fear runs on anxious dread, tightly wound, and slow burn. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Cape Fear
1991
Hounds of Love
2016
Beware, My Lovely
1952
The Clinic
2010
Act of Violence
1949
The Nanny
1965
5150 Elm's Way
2009
Storm Warning
1951
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
2025
Maniac
1963
Fear in the Night
1972
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945
The Stepfather
1987
Trapped
2002
Shut In
2022
Run
2020
Fury
1936
M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters
2020
Karla
2006
Intrusion
2021
Hider in the House
1989
Cujo
1983
Hidden Murder
2025
180
2026