Tim Burton's vision of Sleepy Hollow is beautifully haunting.

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 1999)

"Sleepy Hollow" is visually stunning, and very creepy in a '40's horror film sort of way. Johnny Depp delivered a tour-de-force performance as Ichabod Crane, making the character his own. The story line differs quite a bit from Washington Irving's tale, but I still found it endlessly fascinating. The special effects were pretty gory, and I found the parts where you didn't know quite what to expect scarier than the visually gory decapitations. A rather long piece of plot exposition near the end was the only flaw I noticed, and even that was not too annoying, although it did make me think that a better script could have revealed this information without one character having to explain it all for you. The total cast was superb, and Christopher Walken was wonderful as the Hessian who loses his head. All in all, I would have to recommend it to anyone who enjoyed those scary late-night horror flicks.