When trailers for this movie came out, I was stoked to see this take on a classic that I grew up with when it was a Disney cartoon about Ichabod Crane. When i finally saw it, i was amazed by how Tim Burton took a beloved classic and made it darker. The casting of Johnny Depp as the main guy is worthy of an Oscar, with Helena Bonham Carter as his girlfriend. The score by Danny Elfman is well done, and the cinematography and effects are great.

Tim Burton combines magical fantasy, fairy tale-like romance, whodunit mystery and gothic horror to create one beautifully eccentric film. The story is based on a short novel in the 19th century, about a Headless Horseman beheading his victims in Sleepy Hollow, a small village in New York. Ichabod Crane, an investigator who uses his logic and reasoning, sets out to stop the so-called headless man. The film also adds vibrance and color to the story, adding more mysteries and shocking twists.The most thing I'm impressed of is the set. It's so hauntingly beautiful, watching it is like being in a dream where you're lost in a strange land. There's so much quirkiness in this movie, and it works. I also love the characters, they are given so much depth. Tim Burton's characters in all his films always have that outsider-vibe about them. We begin to know why Ichabod acts the way he is and we sympathize with him, even the real villain has a backstory on why he/she is so evil. The story is wonderfully told, and there are some shocking surprises, especially the villain being revealed. Well, in most mysteries like Agatha Christie, the least possible person who could've done it is actually the main antagonist. The villain just lurks around, we think he/she is just a tertiary character or something.I really love these kinds of films. Quirky and beautiful movies and strange but interesting characters.

Gnarled trees drip blood, Christoper Walken with sharpened teeth, and more decapitations than you can shake a stick at! Easily Tim Burton's grizzliest film and one of his most underrated. Burton consistently makes excellent films, but "Sleepy Hollow" typically isn't the first film people think of when asked what's your favorite Burton film? However, "Sleepy Hollow" really does deserve to be right up there as one of his best. It's deliciously bloody homage to 1960s Gothic Hammer Horror films and Italian horror pictures, ALA Mario Bava. Very loosely based upon the Washington Irving short story, this version has Ichabod Crane as a big city police detective sent into the small hamlet of Sleepy Hollow to solve a mystery surrounding a string of murders, beheadings to be precise. The film was written by Andrew Kevin Walker, the man behind the equally good, and grizzly, murder mystery "Se7en" and he does the same solid job of crafting a respectable who-done-it. However, just as with "Se7en," this film's success is really thanks to a strong director and strong cast and less so the script. Johnny Depp plays a very smug and uptight Ichabod Crane who looks down his nose at the rubes populating Sleepy Hollow, with the exception of a blond haired Christina Ricci, who has him completely befuddled. While Crane is sophisticated and intelligent, he's completely lost when it comes to women, social interactions, and, in general, the ways of the world, which is where this film version falls in line with the Irving tale. There's also Bram Bones, the headless horseman, and a few other trappings from the original story, but for the most part, this film strikes out on it's own, but it does feature some very fun nods to the classic Disney version of the Irvings story. Besides Depp and Ricci, there's a strong supporting cast that includes Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Jeffrey Jones, Richard Griffiths, Ian McDiarmid, Martin Landau, Ray Park doing the fighting scene for the headless horseman, Christopher Walken as the Hessian Horseman, and Hammer Horror veterans Michael Gough and Christopher Lee. Overall, Burton's one foray into a hard R-rated horror film is a real treat for fans of 60s Gothic horror films and more in general anyone who just wants to fun, scary, bloody good time.

An act of kindness, is an act of harmless distribution. The worth of redundant kindness is therefore the worth of the pointlessness of harmless distribution. Harmless distribution, is the harmfulness of possession. The worth of pointlessness is redundancy of worth - the need to abandon a source of inspiration. In effect, it's the need to abandon a source of inspiration that's the danger of possession that's the message.Something, which has the capacity to inspire is the capacity to inflict harm. Inspiration in and of itself is the action of danger. To be inspired is to be drawn toward something. In order for this to happen, however, it's the tragic reality that the reality which is responsible for the gravitation is unable to gravitate itself - the inspiration hasn't the ability to imitate the powers of the inspired.Inspiration is power. But, power is having to experience limitation so that an imitation of power can be true. A power is an experience - experience is having to be subject to limitation, because then an imitation of the experience has the power to be real.Experience and limitation are in fact the same: limitation is having to be real, because then an imitation of limitation can be real. In order to let reality possess the privilege of not knowing its deficiencies, the actual presence of weakness is having to be real.An actual presence, in reality, is having to be the purest definition of weakness so that overall reality can have the freedom of being protected from its weaknesses. A weakness is an injury: for the sake of overall reality being kept safe from weakness, there's a literal spot in reality which is the purest definition of the most powerful weakness.What is the most powerful weakness? An injury is just an injury. However, a best injury is a worst safety. In order to let overall reality know what it means, to experience safety that's reasonable and sufficient, it's necessary for a single spot in reality to know what it means to experience the worst kind of safety.Safety is meant to induce peace. Peace is meant to induce satisfaction - the film Sleepy Hollow is about the perversity of being subject to the worst kind of peace so that reality has the ability to be the happiest kind of fear Peace subjects itself to fear, so that peace can give fear the opportunity to know the true meaning of peace