A Guilty Pleasure Halloween Flick

Rating: 7/10 (11 October 2015)

We have now come to October, my favorite month of the year, which means I'll be reviewing horror films all throughout the month. Lets start it off with an adaptation of a classic story directed by Tim Burton, that adaptation being "Sleepy Hollow."
Probably the best thing about this movie is it's visual style. It has a great Gothic, moody environment, a very classic horror feel to it all. It is the usual Tim Burton style. You can see it in the cinematography, the production design, in almost every frame you have these great visuals. Its to bad the rest of the movie wasn't as great.
Its not that the rest of the movie was bad, it just it was justOK. The acting is fine and sometimes entertaining (Christopher Walken much), but it isn't anything all that notable. The music did serve the style of the film well, but it wasn't anything memorable. The story was somewhat unique (probably because it was written by the guy who wrote "Se7en") but not as strange or out there as some of Tim Burton's other movies. There were also some uses of CGI in the movie that were pretty bad, and I know that the film also has a bit of a cartoonish tone in some scenes, but even then the effects were still surprisingly bad.
Even though I have been criticizing this movie for not being very unique, besides the visual aspect, I still find it very entertaining and I would definitely watch it for next Halloween. Its kind of a guilty pleasure movie, its technically kinda sloppy but still enjoyable. I'd compare it to my reaction to Jurassic World,I didn't think it was very unique, but it was enjoyable none the less.
Final Score: 6/10