Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #850 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-02-12
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 101 minutes

Synopsis
In Tim Burton's stylish, creepy retelling of the classic Washington Irving story, SLEEPY HOLLOW, Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is a squeamish, bookish 18th century New York City investigator sent to a small town in lower Westchester county to look into three mysterious decapitations. When the always rational Crane arrives at the little Dutch village, he finds that most of the townsfolk believe the culprit to be the Headless Horseman, the ghost of a monstrous Hessian soldier (Christopher Walken), who seems to be mysteriously tied in to one of the town's most prominent families. Burton's natural instincts for campy humor, combined with the hauntingly gorgeous technical work (Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography and Danny Elfman's score included), collide to create a work of exhilarating entertainment and poetic storytelling. Miranda Richardson, Casper Van Dien and Christina Ricci help make up an ensemble cast that, combined with the historically accurate village sets and dreamlike magic of the haunted Western Woods--created on the largest sound stage in film history--makes SLEEPY HOLLOW a visually stunning, gripping, and, at times, chilling film.

Customer Reviews

Unpleasant but fascinating
I unwisely started to watch this on TV one evening and couldn't stop, as my interest was caught by the story, the characters and the way the village was portrayed, despite its being full of typical Tim Burton gruesome effects. I'm not a fan of his work, I know it's much admired, I know it's clever, but a lot of it is just plain repulsive as far as I'm concerned.
Johnny Depp and Christoper Walken turned in competent performances and the sets, costumes and cinematography created a really haunting feeling of menace and decay. Unfortunately, once Miranda Richardson appeared, you just knew that her character was either weird or evil or both and things would turn out badly.
It's a film that stays in the memory long afterwards, partly for its gruesome events, but mainly for it's chilling atmosphere and (I have to hand it to Mr.Burton) the quite terrifying, but richly deserved ending.
I didn't enjoy it and I won't be watching it again, but I will remember it for a long time and I can see why those who like horror films rate it highly.

Very good film
This film is not the kind of film I would normally watch, as I am not a fan of horror movies. There are two reasons why I did watch this one: Johnny Depp and Tim Burton.

The film is basically about an Inspector called Ichabod Crane (brilliantly played by Johnny Depp) who is sent to the small village of Sleepy Hollow to investigate three murders which have all taken place in the space of a fortnight. He does not believe the villagers who claim that the Headless Horseman is the killer. His opinion changes when he meets the Headless Horseman. He quickly learns of the legend, and finds out that someone is controlling the Horseman and will continue to do so until the Horsemans head is returned.

This film is a little bit too scary for me - the first time I watched it when it was on TV and turned it over every time I knew someone was going to die, and even though I've seen it several times, I still have to close my eyes - but I found that the rest of it was really good (if you manage to avoid looking too closely at all the headless corpses that are either found in the wood or dug up), but Johnny Depp really lights up the screen as Ichabod Crane. He is just so perfect!!!!

If you don't like horror films, you probably shouldn't watch this unless you are a Johnny Depp fan (like me!!). If you do like horror films, WATCH IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Heads will roll...
I first seen this film a few years back and if your expecting a bloody slash-torture-fest you most probebly will be best sticking to Freddy Vs Jason or Saw IV as that is not the intention of this film. Although you will see many beheadings and corpses, its very much a mythical detective story. Johnny Depp's humorous cowardly take on Ichabot Crane, a detective searching for the person behind the beheaded corpses turning up all around the small American village of Sleepy Hollow, is a pleasure to watch. The one thing I love about Depp is his ability to make a complete fool out of himself and not having to appear as some hot headed Hollywood pretty boy and I feel that comes across in Sleepy Hollow just as much as it does in Pirates of the Carribean.
Tim Burton once again creates a film with that fantasy tone we all love so much. If you, like me, love Burtons take on fantasy or movies in general this is definately one to pick up and hold as a prize in your movie collection. You wont be dissapointed.