Nonsense ... but fun nonsense

Rating: 7/10 (4 January 2000)

I'm not a great Johnny Depp fan. He was OK in Edward Scissorhands, but whatever he does has to wipe out the memory of the mind bogglingly awful 21 Jump Street, so he has a way to go yet.
This was silly nonsense, but I enjoyed it for that. Depp is policeman/amateur pathologist (yes, suspend any sense of reality right now!) Ichabod Crane who is sent to the small town of Sleepy Hollow to solve the mystery of murders in which people are decapitated.
Without spoiling the plot there's the compulsory love interest (Ricci), the wonderful Miranda Richardson as her step mother and plenty of gore and blood with the special effects of heads being removed at source.
It was fun though, and does justice to one of the more famous scary stories you read as you were growing up. The headless horseman, aaarghhh!