Film review on Sleepy Hollow
A gothic film based on Washingon Irving's classic murder mystery, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow set in 1799, made in 1999, by the director Tim Burton. Filmed in the Paramount studios, of course, it has to have the amazing cast of Johnny Depp (Ichabod Cran) Miranda Richardson, Christina Ricci (Katrina Van Tassel) and Christopher Walkman (the headless horse man) which should make it a thrilling film to see. You’d expect to be taken back to 1799 and show you a small village with something spooky going on but instead you get a lot of tomato ketchup everywhere but mostly over Ichabod (Depp).
Sleepy Hollow is about Ichabod Cran (Depp) who lives in New York and is sent to the rural village of Sleepy Hollow to solve the mystery of bodies found with their heads lopped off and not found. The villagers think that a headless horse man is the killer and the keeper of the heads. Cran is not into religion and has turned to science. His sinister looking instruments he has invented to extract the truth from the dead bodies. Which he believes will always be there. Cran is a man who will look at things first before starting to poke and prod as he may find the truth, as he does not believe the villagers and is determined to find the real murderer as he believes there is no such thing as a headless horse man.