Tim Burton's best to date

Rating: Null/10 (29 May 2000)

It's hard to make a really good scary movie. There's so much to achieve: eye-catching art direction, zany yet followable cinematography, chilling scares, and a never boring story. Few scary movies have accomplished these tasks at once; "Aliens", "Scream", "Bram Stoker's Dracula", "Child's Play", and "Psycho" are just some of the few.
"Sleepy Hollow" is, in my opinion, Tim Burton's best film yet. Better than "Batman". If you add up all of "Hollow"'s successes (box-office, Oscars, reviews), it's easy to see why. It might not have been a big a blockbuster as "Batman" or "Batman Returns", or won as many Oscars as "Ed Wood", but it got just as good reviews, and grossed over $100 million.

The reason I loved this movie so much was because I barely knew anything about it. The trailers didn't give anything away, and luckily I missed the making of it, which really spoiled it. I won't tell you much about the movie except that the Oscar-winning art direction is excellent (along with the Oscar nominated cinematography and costumes), Johnny Depp shows us another side to himself (like in "Ed Wood), and the unbilled actor who plays The Headless Horseman is the only one who could do it (if you don't know who it is, catch the MTV movie awards on June 8, he's up for Best Villian).