Sleepy Hollow is a cross between
Sherlock Holmes and
Halloween.
Halloween you say? Yup. This is definitely a horror film with a antagonist that kills at will and who just won't die.
The Headless Horseman is the precursor to characters like
Jason Voorhees and
Michael Myers. Although this is a great looking film and it does have that
Tim Burton touch, especially during
Ichabod Crane's (Johnny Depp) dream sequences, it's not one of his better films. Nothing against
Depp, who I have been a fan of for years, but he really didn't bring much to the character of
Crane. In actuality, anyone in Hollywood could have played him and gotten the same results. The movie really isn't about
Crane, but more about the character and legend of
The Headless Horseman.
Depp's role was serviceable.
This is definitely worth a
Rent. It should be scary for most people given the fact that this movie has more decapitations per minute than any other film I've ever seen. I say it 'should be'. I for one never got any kind of scare moment watching it the first time around and certainly not now, 14 years later.