Sleepy Hollow details
| Formats: | 15 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Casper Van Dien, Martin Landau, Michael Gough, Marc Pickering, Miranda Richardson, Richard Griffiths, Ian McDiarmid, Christ, Michael Gambon, Christina Ricci, Christopher Walken, Johnny Depp, Jeffrey Jones |
| Director: | Tim Burton |
| Genres: | Horror - General, Thriller - Mystery |
| Studio: | ELEVATION SALES |
| Name | Discs | |
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Sleepy Hollow |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 41 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 24 Jul 2000 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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superb
By williamsgwynfa (627 reviews) from gwaenysgor , 08 May 2007[Highly rated reviewer]
this film is superb. we are massive Johnny Depp fans, and love every film that he is in.
The look and feel of the film are great. You are taken back to the late 1790s, to a very convincing Sleepy Hollow, that has lots of fog and smoke, distant lightning, scary jack-o-lanterns, and twisted trees.
The movie has a great deal of suspense built into it, and you are treated to lots of tense moments, when the horseman is near, along with some fairly short, but sometimes very intense scenes of decapitation. The film is much more of a drama than a horror film -- the plot is quite complex, and carries itself well.
Johnny Depp shows an incredible depth to his acting skills, portraying a nice range of emotions, as the somewhat nervous and bumbling, Ichabod Crane who investigates the horseman's murders.
he holds a tremendous faith in science over mysticism, and he comes up against town secrets, bewitching women, and a number of bodies missing heads, in the course of his investigation.
Christina Ricci plays Katrina Van Tassel, the offbeat love interest, who alternately charms and frightens Ichabod Crane.
A particular favourite for me, was Christopher Lee in a small but powerful role, as a judge who sends constable Crane off to Sleepy Hollow.
this film is visually stunning, Sleepy Hollow has some elements from the horror genre. A demonic villain that terrorizes a town. But it is also a gothic adventure, with a pale hero running through skeletal trees, to rescue his damsel in distress. The fun part, is that the hero is in more danger than the damsel, this is one of the great twists in this film.
As Ichabod Crane, Johnny Depp is an exquisite mix of neurosis, extravagances, manias and quirkiness. He's the antithesis of the classical hero, a coward with a brilliant mind, but with no experience in how to defeat an evil ghost. He is very funny, but not in a clowning sort of way.
If you want to see an exciting and visually stunning film, then watch this movie.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(72)Whizz bang watch!
By Scooper (19 reviews) from Altrincham , 19 Feb 2013Comic and suspenseful version of the old legend. Depp in great form as knee knocking hero. A great cast of actors, not least, the Brits. it is Tim Burton and therefore light hearted as well as dark and set in a landscape of his creation. Welcome to Burton/Depp land, the two go together like bacon and egg!- Was this review helpful to you?
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surface without substance
By crossing-sweeper (3 reviews) , 12 Dec 2012It's a pity that a brilliant visual sensibility like Tim Burton's should be harnessed in this film to a screenplay of such leaden awfulness. The film looks great - drawing on familiar, Grimmsian fairytale forest horrors, but gives no thought to characterisation. Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane is nothing but a series of caricature tics and Christina Ricci is entirely blank, as though she wondered what she was doing there. How much creepier this film would have been if one had really had a sense of them as real people in whose relationship one could believe. A cast of fine English character actors do their bit, rather hammily, to give period personality but the film is a moody album cover with nothing inside.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Very Disappointing
By a customer , 28 Nov 2012How can such a good cast produce such a disappointing film. It was really pathetic watching such class actors stumble around such a poor script. I can't for the life of me, see how previous reviewers gave this movie 5 stars.
Quite honestly, take out the blood and gore and you have nothing more that a good old fashioned 'B' rated movie. ...nothing frightening about it at all, and it has been classed as a horror movie!! The only decent quality that 'Sleepy Hollow' can be credited with is that the settings are quite authentic and and give an eerie atmosphere ... but that's it!
Recommended ... not likely!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Good combo
By gianino (631 reviews) from London , 20 Oct 2012Burton/Depp form a very good combo and this is one of their best movies. I completely disagree with some tedious film critics. It's original, creepy, awesome acting (by Johnny Depp in particular), superb photograhy and scenography and very tense from the beginning to the end. However, it gets a tiny bit tricky towards the end but it's a still a super movie.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Atmospheric and fantastic!
By sheepman (21 reviews) from Saltcoats, Scotland , 11 Apr 2012I enjoyed this film immensely. Great acting by Johnny Depp and quite funny in places. A very Gothic atmosphere set in the 1800's.- Was this review helpful to you?
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