The Legend Lives On

Rating: 9/10 (25 April 2005)

I'm a fan of classic horror films and after watching Sleepy Hollow it became # 3 on my top ten list of scary movies director Tim Burton took Washington Irving's timeless story and created a mythical yet mysterious tale with a new twist. In the original version Ichabod Crane, was a schoolteacher and now he's a constable investigating grisly murders. Johnny Depp is an amazing actor who played the role of Ichabod very well and Christina Ricci was beautiful as Katrina his love interest. The rest of the cast did a superb job making the film a smash hit.
The year is 1799, Constable Ichabod Crane (Depp)of the New York City police is sent to the town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a number of bizarre deaths. Each victim has been found with their heads cut off, he stays at the home of Baltus Van Tassel (Gambon) and there meets Katrina Van Tassel, (Ricci)a beautiful young woman with ties to the supernatural. Mr. Van Tassel along with several other town elders believe that these deaths were caused by the headless horseman (Walken) who was a Hessian mercenary seeking revenge for his death twenty years earlier when his own head was taken. Ichabod thinks that there's no such thing as a headless horseman but as the bodies continue to mount up he gets serious and discovers there's much more to the story than meets the eye. When members of the Van Tassel household get killed he suspects the lovely Katrina with whom he's in love with is responsible. But it turns out that her wicked stepmother Lady Van Tassel, (Richardson) controls the headless horseman commanding him to kill people who are to blame for her misery. It's a race against time as Ichabod, Katrina and young Masbath (Pickering) try to stop the headless horseman and bring peace back to the once quiet town.
For fans of horror I recommend watching Sleepy Hollow it's a thrill