Gothic,delightful,funny and beautiful tale

Rating: 8/10 (4 July 2002)

This is a great movie in many ways.The first time i saw it,i didn't like very much because i reed the Washington Irving story but in the second view i was pleasant.The movie is dark and funny with Burton's sense of humor.The photography reminded me movies like Nosferatu(Murnau),M(Fritz Lang);was completely expressionistic and dark.The story of the Headless Horseman is a classic tale from America and this movie show us a variation respect to the book story.However,Johnny Depp is great here(like always)and the movie combined horror,humor and a beauty typical of the fairy tales.Is a fantastic movie.The only failure would be a script too much complicated and with some holes but that's doesn't care,at least for me.See it if you like costume horror movies.Probably,Sleepy Hollow is the most romantic movie of the last years in the old sense of the word.