Has flaws, but what doesn't.

Rating: 8/10 (29 May 2002)

SLEEPY HOLLOW is one of thous films that you think "What the hell?" before you watch it, and after you see it "Cool!"
Spoilers
The film version has almost nothing to do with the original version, and while Irving's short-story is an American horor classic I couldn't understand what the hell was going on through most of it. The story centers around Constable Ichabod Crane (Johny Depp) as he goes to the small farming vilage of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of decapitations. At first he refuses to belief what the community heads (notice my word usage) say that the victoms were kiled by a phantom horse man with no head. After an incounter with the goul he is more than happy to belive it. Crane has also developed a relationship with the HEAD farmer's daughter, Katrina Van Tassle (Christina Ricci). During an incounter with the horseman Carne makes a discovery that it is controlled by someone else. After a series of suspects Ichobod discovers Katrina's step-mother Lady Van Tassle (Miranda Richardson) is the one who is using the horseman to get back at thouse who hurt her before in life. Eventually they send the horseman to hell along with Lady Van Tassle and they all live happily ever after.
Most of the acting, aside from Depp's, is pretty crummy, but, since this is a Burton-flick, the visual styles are increadible. Danny Elfman's score can be over-the-top at times, but not unbarible.
I give SLEEPY HOLLOW 8/10
SLEEPY HOLLOW is rated R for alot of very gory head slicing and a scene of brief, wierd sex.