Sleepy Hollow
"...An American classic." -Joel Siegel, Good Morning America
Master storyteller Tim Burton (Batman, Edward Scissorhands) weaves an eerie, enchanting version of this classic tale of horror. Johnny Depp is Ichabod Crane, an eccentric investigator determined to stop the murderous Headless Horseman. Christina Ricci is Katrina Van Tassel, the beautiful and mysterious girl with secret ties to the supernatural terror.
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Sleepy Hollow - bbryon1
Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman gets a few new twists in a screen adaptation directed by Tim Burton. In this version, Ichabod (Johnny Depp) is a New York City detective whose unorthodox techniques and penchant for gadgets make him unpopular with is colleagues. He is sent to the remote town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of bizarre murders, in which a number of people have been found dead in the woods, with their heads cut off. Local legend has it .Classic! - PopcornGallagher
I watch this movie every year at Halloween and sometimes in between! It is the perfect combination of thriller and romance. A little blood but definitely not a horror movie. Depp and Ricci do an incredible job at making their characters believable. Their love story is just as central to the theme as Icobod finding out who the headless horseman is. They do this without making it cheesy or overshadowing the thriller/mystery theme. A must see.More Of A Murder Mystery Than A Horror Movie - And A Pretty Good One - revsdd
Being unfamiliar with the original story by Washington Irving (except for the fact that it featured a headless horseman) I waded into this movie with no expectations. The end result was a pretty enjoyable ghost story. Johnny Depp was perfectly cast as Ichabod Crane - the New York City policeman who gets sent to the village of Sleepy Hollow in 1799 to investigate a series of murders in which the victims' heads have been cut off and never found. It was a typical quirky sort of role for Depp, who's teamed again with director Tim Burton. Crane wades straight into the legend of a Hessian soldier beheaded during the Revolution who now haunts Sleepy Hollow until his head is returned to him. The mystery is around who he chooses to kill and why he chooses them.
That mystery is pretty well put together, although a bit confusing at times, and while it does make perfect sense in the end, I had no idea who the person responsible for the horseman's killings was going to be. As always, Tim Burton puts together a perfect blend of story and atmosphere that makes the movie very realistic, and the special effects are very well done. Although the murders are graphically depicted, they're not especially bloody considering that they feature beheadings and I would tend to call this a murder mystery rather than a horror movie as it's suspenseful rather than frightening. Enjoyable though it was, I found there was a period in the middle when the story seemed to lose its hold on me and I had to force myself to concentrate on it, and I'm not really sure why. Crane's arrival in tiny Sleepy Hollow - where everyone is related to everyone -was perhaps accepted a bit too nonchalantly, given that he was a complete stranger, and small towns - even today - tend to view strangers (especially city folk) with some suspicion. That may be an unimportant detail to some, but it did make me question the story's credibility. Still, it's a pretty good story that's fun to watch.
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Sleepy Hollow - bbryon1
Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman gets a few new twists in a screen adaptation directed by Tim Burton. In this version, Ichabod (Johnny Depp) is a New York City detective whose unorthodox techniques and penchant for gadgets ...Classic! - PopcornGallagher
I watch this movie every year at Halloween and sometimes in between! It is the perfect combination of thriller and romance. A little blood but definitely not a horror movie. Depp and Ricci do an incredible job at making their characters believable. Their ...More Of A Murder Mystery Than A Horror Movie - And A Pretty Good One - revsdd
Being unfamiliar with the original story by Washington Irving (except for the fact that it featured a headless horseman) I waded into this movie with no expectations. The end result was a pretty enjoyable ghost story. Johnny Depp was perfectly cast as Ichabod ...