Artistic Tour-de-force

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2000)

I love artistic design, I also love good characters and a crack plot. Tim Barton's "Sleepy Hollow" offer them all with the added grotesque of an anatomy book. Tim Barton have mercy for no one, in showing the cruelty of the time (the year 1799) he spares the audience not a single horror. Even breaking a formidable holywoodian law. Barton's headless horseman is unstopable machine of horror and death, you could feel the despair of his victims. The main character Ichabod (Like Captain Ahab, this character also have a cursed name - indignity) is magnificently played by Depp. His overacting in the tradition of the 20s silent pictures makes his character both funny and powerful. Alas some of the other characters are dwarved next to him and acting like a cliche. I give this picture 8.5 out of 10, and in my scale that's a lot. Go see the picture, unless of course, you are too scared of blood and severed organs, hahahaha....