1999 Directed by Tim Burton
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
Johnny Depp Christina Ricci Miranda Richardson Michael Gambon Casper Van Dien Jeffrey Jones Richard Griffiths Ian McDiarmid Michael Gough Christopher Walken Marc Pickering Lisa Marie Steven Waddington Claire Skinner Christopher Lee Alun Armstrong Mark Spalding Jessica Oyelowo Peter Guinness Tony Maudsley Martin Landau Jamie Foreman Philip Martin Brown Orlando Seale Sean Stephens Gabrielle Lloyd Robert Sella Michael Feast Sam Fior Show All…
Rick Heinrichs Ken Court John Dexter Andy Nicholson Kevin Phipps Julian Ashby Bill Boes Stephen Dobric Nick Navarro Gary Tomkins Sue Whitaker
Richard L. Anderson Craig Berkey Sean Garnhart Lewis Goldstein John Pospisil Paul Urmson Harry Higgins Bob Olari Lee Dichter Robert Fernandez Frank Morrone Shawn Murphy Skip Lievsay
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“It is truth, but truth is not always appearance.”
The man in the trenchcoat and fedora was not cynical, though the accusation came often. He simply knew things. He knew what the woman wanted—her canted veil and tailored suit could not hide the baseness of her motives. And he knew what the other man wanted—money and power and control and moral impunity, in no particular order but in undiluted quantity. No, the man in the trenchcoat and fedora was not cynical—he had a moral code, and he lived by it, but it reflected the world around him. He would work to make that world a little bit better, for a little bit better was all he…
A richly designed, pervasively atmospheric, and, thanks to its leading man, somewhat whimsical horror film, Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" is a blustery, gory, and entertaining piece of work. With its superbly rendered and shot sets and landscapes, the film is a fine-looking chiller with an overarching sense of delightful wickedness.
A post-colonial police procedural that finds a city constable sent to rural New York to investigate a series of murders, "Sleepy Hollow" puts a contemporary spin on Washington Irving's classic tale. The film follows on Johnny Depp's committed yet squeamish investigator as he thumbs through witchcraft, superstition, and Revolutionary War-era myth on his way to the truth. Eventually, he, too, is hunted by the legendary, Hessian horseman.
The story is…
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Task #28 : A film representing your favorite holiday!
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Well obviously my favorite holiday is Halloween and as far as successfully attaining a creepy atmosphere this one wins hands down!
I enjoyed the forensics and gizmo's along with Depps performance for the most part! While this was a visually stunning Legend of Sleepy Hollow film adaptation something about it just didn't sit right with me! As far as the story goes it felt hollow and simply didn't resonate with me! Nor did I care one iota about its characters!
I have no interest in viewing it ever again!
Marking the third collaboration between a filmmaker who's always been fascinated by dark, gothic tales and an actor who has a penchant for playing eccentric characters, Sleepy Hollow is a wonderful blend of horror & comedy that plays to the strength of both Tim Burton & Johnny Depp and is further improved by its stunning visual design, clever casting & eerie ambience.
Set at the turn of the 19th century, Sleepy Hollow tells the story of a police constable who favours forensic techniques over traditional methods when it comes to solving a case and accepts the alternative to imprisonment which requires him to travel to the titular village in order to investigate a series of murders, believed to be carried out by the…
Christopher Walken has literally 3 lines in this film...
1. NAAAAHH!
2. WAAAAHH!
and who could forget...
3. RAAAAHH!
Would you believe as crazy as he is in this film, he's been crazier on and off film?
That's truly what you expect from a Tim Burton movie, with Johnny Depp as leading actor.
Watching Sleepy Hollow always feels like coming home. I still remember how even the trailer blew me away and thanks to it being accidentally labeled rated 12 at our theatre I was able to see it on the big screen. Burton created a unique and dense atmosphere and opted to pay homage to great films with the same vibe like WITCH FINDER GENERAL and MARK OF THE DEVIL by pulling no punches on the gore and giving the huge amounts of blood a bright-red color.
Pretty odd, eerie murder-mystery in the woods, and strangely the least over-the-top aesthetic from a Burton movie at this point in his films!
The slasher parts of the film are so well done, and are a blast to watch, and while the actual mystery of the whole thing is a bit hard to follow, and kind of unimportant, it’s still executed very carefully and is still interesting to watch!
The movie looks absolutely incredible, and I think Depp does a good job playing a fake macho Sherlock-esque lead. There are some clunky bits of the movie (random witch in the forest) and there are some frustratingly rote aspects of the plot, but it all comes together to be a pretty good time! Great fall movie.
Even if Sleepy Hollow stumbles in an effort to over explain itself in its final moments, this is still one of Burton's more impressive projects. Depp is in his prime as the squeamish constable Ichabod Crane and Burton sidelines his unusual kitsch for unusual horror worthy of a spot on everyone's Halloween watchlist.
O Tim Burton para executar suas histórias e nos fazer apreciar sua peculiaridade exercita muito a suspensão de crença. Esse filme vai falar exatamente sobre isso, em que o papel de Johnny Depp surpreende(a princípio negativamente para mim) por não ser sisudo e investigar friamente um caso em Sleepy Hollow.
O diretor entitula o suspense e o terror com uma pitada de slash, um dos filmes mais sangrentos de Tim Burton. A partir disso ele vai fazer o exercício de sempre, mas agora usa-se a estranheza como arma não como sentimento.
Burton nesse filme talvez consiga fugir do seu tom melodicamente frívolo de montagem de seus filmes, assim com fez de leve em Edward Mãos de Tesoura, mas utilizou a…
more scared than scary, very effectively plays with the gothic horror mode with more guts and gore and skulduggery than expected
Wow I had a lot of fun rewatching this! I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid, and was reminded of it by a great podcast I just started listening to called Blank Check. Thank you for the recommendation Geoffrey and Clayton. I wish we got more goofy, ultra violent, gothic horror films like Sleepy Hollow, especially today. Tim Burton isn’t even making movies like this anymore. He’s too busy making kids movies that are more fake weird than Jughead on Riverdale. The gloomy, desaturated cinematography and wonderfully exaggerated production design were a killer combo.
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