Pretty but empty

Rating: 6/10 (16 April 2008)

This "free adaptation" of Washington Irving's old tale - and then they say 1992 Dracula was not faithful! - boasts with a very nice-looking Halloween card look, and not much else. The story is simply a bit dull, with some nice shots of Headless horseman riding through the forest and lot of decapitating and sympathetic 18th century geek Ichabod Crane courting prettily dressed pagan heroine Katrina. Nothing too impressive, really. There's also some on-target mockery of squalid Christian conservatism: unlike, let's say, pre-marital sex between lovers, the filth and sadism is OK - at least if it's in Bible and in the name of Bible because, ya know, it's Bible!...