Perhaps the most atmospheric film I can think of

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 2018)

This is a fantastic looking film- truly I say this as you feel like you are actually transported to the old town of Sleepy Hollow in the early years of the last century. Sleepy Hollow has a lot of the quirky humour that marks Burton movies, but this movie also seems to be a lot more violent than his other movies. Very bloody, very graphic, very powerful. Using saturated colors, whitened skin tones, and a lot of fog, Burton successfully transports the viewer in to the magical realm where fairy tales live and legends are born. Emulating Hammer Horror Films of past, Burton stretches our reality. As a director, he is free and bold. Always making the unexpected seem ordinary and the ordinary seem like magic. Using 1899 New York as a template and the world on the brink of scientific revolution as a moving plot force, Burton further endears the American tale... only this time we get transported into the world of Icabod and his eccentricities. The fog laden woods full of crooked, dead trees give a nightmare-ish quality to the atmosphere. Surprisingly graphic decapitations, and rolling heads are sure to get the hair to rise on your neck.