Villagers claim it's the work of a headless horseman.
Skeptical, Ichabod sets out to unearth a more rational explanation, but is converted when he digs up a dark secret that connects the victims. Leave it to macabre director Tim Burton to turn Washington Irving's humble folk tale, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow , into an eerie feature full of occultism and graphic decapitations. Burton seems to revel in his gruesomely choreographed noggin-lopping. Other murders are equally meanspirited. The film also maligns Christian men by portraying them as hypocritical Bible thumpers.