Entertaining

Rating: 7/10 (16 February 2014)

A different take on the Sleepy Hollow tale. This one takes place only twenty years after the Hessian scum has been killed and buried. He has returned and is slaughtering people right and left. Johnny Depp plays the forward thinking constable sent up from the big city to solve the cases. He teams up with the son of one of the killed men since he is the only one who has the courage (or stupidity) to assist the constable. As things progress Depp goes to what I guess is a with. She does a conjuration using bats blood and gets a prosaic quote. Riding on he comes across Christina Ricci, the mayor's daughter, in the woods. They team up and find the death tree. Here is where the heads are stuffed into it and Depp surmises that the horseman is reaping heads until his is returned. Casper Van Dien actually gets a decent role in this movie, it seems he usually gets the B movie action roles. There are some dream sequences that fill in some back story Depp's character. Also Ricci appears to be a witch of some sort as she brews a potion to help Depp recover from the Horseman's attack. After seeing a family tree Depp finally figures out what the connection is between the murders and the horseman. He finds out that it is a conspiracy between the four town elders to ensure the passing down of a large fortune to the right person. The real question is who is the one that stole the horseman's skull, that is who is controlling it to do his bidding. Turns out it is the stepmother who is using the horseman to exact revenge for her family's displacement from their farm. Anyway Depp, Ricci and the boy climb to the top of a windmill which goes up in an explosion of flames with the horseman inside. Since the horseman was already dead he survives and chases after the escaping trio. Of course he catches them and there is a fight scene. Coming across his skull at the end the horseman ends up taking the stepmother as his bride? and the rst is film history.s