Every frame a keeper.....

Rating: Null/10 (18 November 2001)

Every frame of Tim Burton's successful 1999 film version of SLEEPY HOLLOW is a keeper. Bathed in dark, dank colors, it is one of the closest attempts an American film has come to showing an alternate twisted world, ala THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI.
What's also a treat here is Johnny Depp's portrayal of Icabod Crane. He's an introverted crime solver, a quirky loner with his own little crazy nick-naks for solving a murder. The rest of the cast is a great too. Okay, Christina Ricci looks too much like a goth chick stuck in 1799, the year the film takes place, but, so what. Lisa Marie (then Mrs, Burton) Jeffrey Jones, Michael Gough (Whom I hope wasn't as sickly in real life as the character he depicted) Christopher Lee, Martin Landau (in an unbilled cameo) Miranda Richardson and Casper Van Dien bring it all together.