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Summary: The Headless Everyone Else
Review: The idea of chopping people's heads off and seeing them rolling around the floor with their eyes wide open in shock must have seemed so good to director Tim Burton that he decided that once wasn't enough, he had to do it to many people throughout the movie. The only thing he didn't do was to have the headless horseman tossing a coin and saying, "Heads I win -- ha, ha!" Indeed, the movie could have used a bit of light humor; not that it wasn't funny, but it was too much "heavy funny," if you know what I mean. As for the plot, there was certainly a lot more here than in A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Still, it could have been better if our hero were not a forensic detective but rather one of those nineteenth century "doctors of philosophy," who came to Sleepy Hollow to get to the bottom of the mythical legend. There's a lot of gore for people who enjoy orange paint. So why, you might very well ask, do I give this movie as many as three stars? I'm very cheap on stars, as you might know from reading any of my other reviews. Well, there's one thing in this movie that blew my mind and makes it almost a collector's item. There's a ten-second scene where the headless horseman comes out of a hollow in a twisted tree. It is an utterly fantastic work of animation--the snarled branches of the tree move and disgorge a horseman who at first looks like those branches and then transmogrifies into the headless horseman. The sequence undoubtedly owes its initial inspiration from the wonderful anthropomorphic forest in SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. But it's as good a piece of fantasy drawing as anything in print. I wouldn't be surprised if Tim Burton could come up with a ten-second clip of the sequence that could be accessed and studied by students of art and all those who, like me, enjoy far-out Frazetta-type fantasy art. This wonderful sequence, which is indeed repeated in the movie from a slightly different point of view (thus making it a second version of an almost perfect art work), earns a third star from me (big deal!). Bottom line: the art work is excellent throughout the movie, and it makes this VHS (and the DVD which is sure to follow) an item for your movie library that you will want to look at again from time to time.
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Summary: The highlight of the movie is the copyright notice in French
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The filmmakers attempted to capture a cross between Nosferatu "Nosferatu ASIN: 6305075468" and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. ASIN: 6305075492" It may have worked in 1920 however the film is to clear and sharp. It comes off looking more like a cross between a cartoon and a graphics ad.
The actors outweighed the characters and looked like they were reading the script. I could swear that some were watching the teleprompter. I saw Christopher Walken from "Blast From the Past ASIN: 0780626494" and Jeffrey Jones from "Mom and Dad Save the World ASIN: 6302648521." The story line was trite and there was no hint of "stay in the car", which adds pa!thos to a suspense movie. And who's idea was it to cut up a three day old corps to get covered in blood that if was any, had lone ago coagulated? I could go on with quite a few examples. But you get the idea.
If you are driving by a place that rents this DVD, stay in the car.
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Summary: sleepy hollow
Review: This is one of the worst films i have ever seen...They try to make a funny horror which doesn`t work .It shold be one or the other , in this case they should of went for horror . Do not rent or buy this film , you will be very dissapointed.
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Summary: Classic Story Telling At It's Best
Review: I only have three words that can describe this film : Breathtaking-Beautifull-Classic.And that is the best review you'll ever need to read about this film.
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Summary: Amazing movie.Tim Burton has done it again!
Review: ''Sleepy Hollow'' is the story based on the book written by Washington Irving.Ichabod Crane [Johnny Depp] is a new york police detective in 1799.He is sent to a small farming town by his elders named Sleepy Hollow.As he tries to solve the murders of some local towns people he falls in love with the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel [The fiesty Christina Ricci].Everyone has their own theroies of the murders most concerning the Headless Horseman who goes around chopping heads off......Two great lead roles by Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci,Excellent supporting cast including Michael Gambon,Miranda Richardson,Jeffrey Jones and Casper Van Dein plus Danny Elfmans pulsating music score all add to the gothic feel of this movie.Even though it may be a tad confusing of who did what to whom it still makes an extemely entertaining movie.Watch out for Martin Landau,Christopher Walken and Christopher Lee in cameo roles! 10 out of 10!
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Summary: One of the Spookiest Movies I've Seen!
Review: Can't think of a movie to rent tonight? Think you've seen every one? And are you wanting to have a good scare? Well have I got a movie to introduce to you! "Sleepy Hollow" stars Johnny Depp as the eccentric investigator whom is sent to the mysterious and haunted town called Sleepy Hollow. There he is supposed to capture the Headless Horseman who is beheading persons of the town. Along his spooky adventures, the man meets Dr. Van Tasselle, his beautiful daughter Katrina (Christina Ricci) and even more characters. This is one of the best horror movies I'd say, it is quite the spook. Don't miss this one! You'll get a definit scare!
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Summary: Burton is a freak!
Review: Who'da thunk it? This story is so much more than the one we've had thrown at us by the goofballs at Disney. The Disney interpretation is so pale, that I never even thought to read the book. Well, it looks like Tim Burton has read it. Few directors are able to tell a story as deliberately as this character. I always enjoy his work, even if I don't enjoy the story. But what a plus when the story's really fun as well? I saw this on pay-per-view, then I watched a tape - twice, I watched it again when my sister rented it - now I'm buying the DVD. The more I see it, the more enjoyable it becomes. Burton really stands up to scrutiny. And I'm grateful to have this new interpretation of the story available to me. Plus, this movie is just plain fun!
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Summary: Best film i've seen in ages
Review: This film not only has good effects, but also captivates the viewers with complicated plots, and the humour is used frequently and cleverly used.
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Summary: This movie is a "head" above the rest!
Review: I saw this movie 3 times in the theater and I could watch it a zillion more! The atmosphere, characters, plot, architecture, and director all worked together to convey this creepy flick. Of course, with Tim Burton you're gonna have a dark film with characters to match. Although the movie doesn't match the sketch by Washington Irving 100%, it is still an A+++ feature. Defininately, one of the best parts is when the Hessian enters the house of the midwife, her husband, and their son. Is it that dreadful Christopher Walken! No! It's the one-and-only Ray Park! So if you liked Darth Maul in Star Wars, all his spectacular saber-fighting, you're gonna love Ray's axe battles! I know I did; but I LOVE Ray Park ;) Besides Ray, Johnny Depp provided another wonderful, creepy, and downright humorous performance. Even if you're not a Depp, Park, Ricci, Walken, or Burton fan, you need to see this movie. There's nothing more exciting than seeing some heads get lopped off by a headless horse-rider!
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Summary: An all time classic
Review: Sleepy Hollow is an all time classic and my pick as the bestfilm of '99. Impeccably designed by Rick Heinrichs, and with striking costumes by Colleen Atwood, this visually arresting film is lit by Emmanuel Lubezki in a stylised, desaturated colour scheme which borders on monochrome and fuels the spookiness of its milieu. This rich imagery exists on a thin line between the dreamy and the nightmarish, and can be tilted in either direction with a mere flick of Burton's unerring sense of the macabre. In Burton's film, Ichabod Crane is a New York City constable in 1799, a forensics freak with a penchant for pragmatism and a burning need to get the city to employ more scientific means of solving crimes. To test the efficiency of his devices - large, ornate metallic "tools" - his boss transfers him to Sleepy Hollow, N.Y, where there have been a couple of mysterious beheadings. Irving imagined Crane as lanky and naive; Johnny Depp plays him as an inquisitive priss, at once sexy and fumbling and fey, like Donald O'Connor doing his best slapstick Cary Grant. His arrival upstate is greeted with evil eyes of the literal and figurative variety. In addition to the Headless Horseman riding around, there's talk of witchcraft, for it seems someone is conspiring with the Horseman to murder suspicious locals. No one is spared, not even the kid whose severed head we never see but can imagine airbrushed on a jar of Gerber strained peas. Ichabod is assisted in his detective work by Young Masbeth (amazing Marc Pickering), who plays quiet Watson to Ichabod's pompous Holmes. With a wonderful preformance by Christina Ricci, Sleepy Hollow is Tim Burtons finest hour and a must for anyones DVD collection. END
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