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Release Date: 23 May, 2000 Retail Price: $29.99 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (15 total) |
Sleepy Hollow Reviews
Cute Hammer-style Horror Fantasy.
Sleepy Hollow maintains a fine balance between horror and humour, which is why the comparisons to the British Hammer Horrors are apt. Johnny Depp is thoroughly likeable as Ichabod Crane, the constable who refuses to give up his scientific methods despite the people of Sleepy Hollow's superstitions.
He has been sent from New York, where the police department are sick of his persistence, to investigate the mysterious deaths in the small, backwards community... apparently at the hands of a Headless Horseman. The year is 1799.
Christina Ricci supplies the love interest and some of the film's best moments.
Tim Burton routinely presents us with visually exciting films, and Sleepy Hollow is no exception. It looks stunning. The effects are top-notch. And his compositions are suitably comic book. It is a film with its chilling moments, but there's a lot of laughter - both for the jokes and the nervous variety.
This movie certainly lives up to the standards set by the two previous Burton/Depp collaborations, Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood.
Tim Burton does Hammer horror, with stunning results
Loosely based on both the original Washington Irving story as well as the Disney version, Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow takes a revisionist approach and ends up with a genuine horror classic. Johnny Depp stars as "Constable" Ichabod Crane, an 18th century detective keen on using scientific methods (unheard of in this period) to solve crimes. Annoyed by his unconventional methods, Magistrate Christopher Lee sends Depp upstate to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a string of grisly murders-by-beheading. Depp/Crane becomes involved in a supernatural situation that tests his lack of faith (a sub-plot resulting from a childhood trauma involving his mother [Lisa Marie] and sinister father) and makes him a full witness to the goulish decapitations. Christopher Walken is absolutely frightening as the horseman, and Christina Ricci and a cast of classic British actors flesh (pardon the pun) out the story with hints of shady business among the town's statesmen. The commentary by Burton is fairly optional, but the "making of" and other features enhance the movie superbly. Burton uses a foggy, bleached style to enhance the appearance and tone of the movie, creating a genuinely unique vision. Be warned, though - there's lots of loppings in this flick, so it's definitely not for the squeamish. With homage to Hammer horror films but otherwise unique in the genre, Sleepy Hollow should easily take its place among other groundbreaking horror movies like The Shining or An American Werewolf in London. Need a movie to shake you out of your Friday-the-13th complacency? Get this DVD!
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