![]() It includes fanciful gore and violence, brief sexual situations and a high head count. ''Sleepy Hollow'' is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). In case you were thinking of taking the children. And Marc Pickering plays the teenage sidekick whom Ichabod cautions, as he might the audience, with ''I hope you have a strong stomach.''Īmong the many scenes of cheeky mayhem, one finds a little boy cowering beneath floorboards while the Horseman harvests the heads of his parents. The horror patriarch Christopher Lee is here, as well he ought to be. Sleepy Hollow (2013) TV-14 Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 43m User Score Play Trailer Carry on. Miranda Richardson swishes dangerously through the proceedings as Katrina's obviously wicked stepmother, while the town elders include Michael Gough, Michael Gambon and Jeffrey Jones. Katrina is played photogenically by Christina Ricci, who gets through the film gamely while remaining very much a sardonic creature of her own time.Īn impressive cast shows off Colleen Atwood's sumptuous costumes and delivers dialogue, some apparently worked on by Tom Stoppard, sometimes graced with a clever edge. As this film's Ichabod conducts a Holmesian murder investigation and even unearths a village conspiracy, he has much better luck with Katrina Van Tassel than any traditional Ichabod ever did. Burton's film delivers a scare or two, but most of it is too tongue in cheek for that. ![]() At moments like the one revealing the tree's bloody secret, and in a couple of incidents involving witchcraft, Mr. Using a color palette more often associated with stories of the gulag, ''Sleepy Hollow'' creates a landscape so daunting that even a large tree bleeds. It is also here that he learns of the vengeful headless Hessian (Christopher Walken in redundant fright makeup) who is the town's main tourist attraction. Depp's playful charisma, is sent to solve a series of murders and to find that everyone in Sleepy Hollow looks mildly suspect. But the bulk of the film unfolds in a forbidding, fairy-tale village and forest that are as ambitious as the Gotham City of ''Batman.'' It is here that Ichabod, who now has a faintly English accent and Mr. ![]() As written by Andrew Kevin Walker, who took off Gwyneth Paltrow's head in ''Seven'' and apparently considered that small potatoes, ''Sleepy Hollow'' turns the tale of the Headless Horseman into the pre-tabloid story of a rampaging serial killer.Įven birds nesting in one of the film's vast, wintry indoor sets found themselves trying to get away, moving into the only blossom-filled backdrop that ''Sleepy Hollow'' uses (for brief fantasy scenes). Burton immensely without wanting to peer at the exposed brain stems of his characters, but ''Sleepy Hollow'' leaves no choice. (From a purely technical standpoint, as in the award-ready cinematography of Emmanuel Lubezki, this grimly voluptuous ''Sleepy Hollow'' must be one of them.) But it will also raise the question of what we were smoking during this period of infatuation with grisliness on screen. History will recognize the rich imagination and secret tenderness of Mr. Shot 2: Blood splashes Ichabod's glasses. Burton handles such sequences with his own brand of wit. In 'Sleepy Hollow,' an R-rated live-action adaptation of Washington Irving's story, Tim Burton casts Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane, a constable in this version, opposite Casper Van Dien as Brom. Quaint Dutch burghers of the Hudson Valley could have bowled ninepins throughout Rip Van Winkle's sleep-in with the supply of decapitated heads sent flying here, even if Mr. So when it comes to appearances, this dark, shivery ''Sleepy Hollow'' manages to be as distinctively Burtonesque as ''Edward Scissorhands'' or ''Batman.'' Offering a serenely unrecognizable take on Washington Irving's story and its famously unlucky schoolteacher, the film brings its huge reserves of creativity to bear upon matters like the severing of heads. Burton eagerly brings his visions of sugarplums to the screen. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short film about a particular town that is very sleepy in other words, the town is very dreamy. His idea of a beautiful day may be somebody else's nuclear winter, but Mr. ![]() Burton's can be expected to make its own rules, and ''Sleepy Hollow'' does that with macabre gusto. And speaking of dashing, when Ichabod gallops north from New York City, he rides up the west bank of the Hudson River although the village of Sleepy Hollow is on the east. The year is 1799 and ''the millennium is almost upon us,'' according to the newly dashing Ichabod Crane played by Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's enthusiastically bleak new movie.
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