Hammer Wannabe

Rating: Null/10 (29 March 2000)

Sleepy Hollow(1999) is a nice looking but failed attempt at doing an American Hammer Horror film. Johnny Depp is passable as Icabod Crane and Christina Ricci is wonderful as the young woman who may or may not be a witch. The plot seems less like The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and more like The Plague of the Zombies(1966), and The Reptile(1966). The set designs were wonderful and the look of the movie atmospheric. The reason I saw this movie was the appearence of Christopher Lee with the hope that he would have plenty of screen time.