For the 90s audience

Rating: 4/10 (26 November 1999)

Washington Irving's story could have been a perfect vehicle for Burton's talents. However, Irving's atmospheric classic was updated into a serial killer movie which is very 90s-like: loud, over-the-top and weak on characterization and plot. At first, it looks gorgeous but as the story gets increasingly thin and predictable, the movie's gorgeous look can't save it. By the end the movie reminds something like The Terminator rather than a gothic story as it should be.