A bit too gory for me.

Rating: Null/10 (25 November 1999)

This movie had so many good points, when heads weren't flying everywhere. The acting is first rate, the filming is so beautiful, the costuming is amazing, and whatever they did to the scenery I want to live there. And if that's all it was, with just a few incidents of the Horseman doing his thing (enough to be good and scary), it would have been a perfect movie. I enjoy being scared, but I can't deal with being grossed out repeatedly during the span of two hours. Call me queasy, call me girly, call me Ichabod, but I came close to fainting as many times as he did. Okay, there *was* less blood than what there could have been, thank you for that. But a few scenes were just disgusting for the sake of being disgusting. I won't go so far as to say which ones, but there were a few things that happened that didn't really need to--they certainly didn't add anything. Sometimes just because you have the special effects capabilities *to* do something doesn't mean you have to, or maybe even *should*. Pass on this one if you've got a weak stomach, or for that matter, even a reasonably strong one. I wish the plotline had had a few less severed heads and a few more shots of Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci's acting, or maybe some more of that glorious landscape. I usually love Tim Burton's movies...they're creepy and unsettling and bizarre. This one was all of those but also way too gross.