🎬 Cape Fear – Bernard Herrmann’s score revisited by Elmer Bernstein 🎶 When Martin Scorsese took on Cape Fear (1991), he wanted to pay tribute to the 1962 classic by J. Lee Thompson. One of his boldest choices was to bring back Bernard Herrmann’s original score — a masterpiece of suspense and psychological tension. Herrmann’s music, with its dark, relentless motifs, gave life to the terrifying presence of Max Cady. For the remake, Elmer Bernstein was tasked not with rewriting it, but with reima