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Sleepy Hollow [1999]
from Optimum Home Entertainment
starring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken, Miranda Richardson, Martin Landau

Features:

• Anamorphic
• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A head of the game...
  One thing you are certain of with a Tim Burton film, is that it will be a visual feast, and Sleepy Hollow is no exception. You have to keep reminding yourself that it is a colour film, as Burton makes the whole thing look so washed out and, to a point, sepia. You will realise just how washed out the movie looks when after viewing it, take a look at the original cinema trailer (an extra on this DVD) - it almost leaps off the screen with bright colours. But the washed out misty look is best for this film and... more info

• 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... more info

• 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... more info

• 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... more info

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