{"id":729780,"date":"2026-06-11T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729780\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:05:09","slug":"pure-malevolence-how-cape-fears-psychopath-max-cady-became-one-of-americas-all-time-greatest-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/729780\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pure malevolence&#8217;: How Cape Fear&#8217;s psychopath Max Cady became one of America&#8217;s all-time greatest villains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">This othering of Cady is further amplified through the Santeria faith he adopts in prison. This Afro-Caribbean-Yoruba religion, developed by enslaved people in Cuba, involves the worship of deities called Orishas. &#8220;Max&#8217;s Orisha is of thunder, justice and vengeance, so that&#8217;s very appropriate to his character, his needs and motivations,&#8221; says Antosca. Cady&#8217;s tattoos, continuing De Niro&#8217;s legacy, are just as evocative, with dozens of eyes etched across his skin: &#8220;There are a lot of ways to spy on, terrorise and surveil people in 2026 that didn&#8217;t exist before, so Max&#8217;s tattoos [emphasise] that he&#8217;s always watching.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This othering of Cady is further amplified through the Santeria faith he adopts in prison. This Afro-Caribbean-Yoruba religion,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-729780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}