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The secret to "getting" Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow is appreciating that it's the film he's wanted to make his whole life. After the intimately expressive Edward Scissorhands, this is his most personal venture. Burton's Gothic style--apparent through all his work--stems from a childhood misspent watching the horror movies of Roger Corman, Hammer studios, and anything featuring his idol Vincent Price. For Sleepy Hollow Burton surrounded himself with his usual collaborators and friends; the production was almost entirely shot on location outside London to reunite him with key members of the crew he'd used a decade earlier in Batman, and also to capture the atmosphere of Hammer horror on its own turf.
Johnny Depp's Constable Ichabod Crane warmly emulates the mannerisms and enunciation of Peter Cushing. In a prologue scene Burton plays out a long-held fantasy by pitting Depp against Christopher Lee. And it is fantasy that categorises the film throughout, from the mythical fireside telling of the Hessian Horseman's origin (a mesmerising Christopher Walken), to the bright spots of colour saturating Crane's childhood dreams (featuring Burton's real-life love Lisa Marie). These moments literally shine out amid a meticulously crafted look for the film, which underwent a bleaching process to tone things down to an almost monochrome hue. The Scooby Doo-like whodunnit plot, concerning family lineage and petty vengeance, is naturally secondary to what Burton is aiming to achieve through photography and performance, which includes expressive cameos from Michael Gambon, Michael Gough, Jeffrey Jones, and Iain McDiarmid. Yet despite all these subtleties, it's also his best action movie: the swordplay betters anything from his earlier work, while the windmill escape and subsequent coach chase is truly breathtaking in choreography and execution. If you find a cheesy grin on your face for most of the film, you've "got" it. If not, see Hammer's Dracula at once! --Paul Tonks
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
This is an excellent film but the quality of transfer onto Blu-Ray disc is appalling. Its just a cheap and lazy cash in with very grainy quality, possibly worse than DVD, and no extras - including no sub-titles. This is a rip off I suggest you avoid.
31 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Hving bought this because i don't have a dvd copy, i thought it would benefit from a transfer make over. Just how wrong can you be ! The picture quality is no better than dvd . Picture is grainy and washed out and also strangely jerky when watching . did not have chance to put through surround (watched late at night), but no options to change audio . No extras on disk and really sloppy transfer . If you want to add this to your collection, wait until it's in a promotion or you can get for a fiver or under. The price of this disk does not match the product. Terrible .
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
"Sleepy Hollow" Has just the right amount of everything to make it quite a memorable movie. The atmosphere that Sleepy Hollow portrays makes this movie
a quite essential Halloween treat! Picture and sound quality on this DVD are first rate which is a relief as the movie contains lots of dark scenes with which inferior transfers would suffer terribly.
a quite essential Halloween treat! Picture and sound quality on this DVD are first rate which is a relief as the movie contains lots of dark scenes with which inferior transfers would suffer terribly.
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Terrible Blu-ray...
The movie is awesome and deserves at least a 4 star, but the Blu-ray is just awful. I wish I'd read the reviews before I replaced my DVD with it. Read more
Published 27 days ago by Leah
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Excellent DVD to add to your collection
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Published 14 months ago by Chris
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It couldnt have been harder dealing with them, there was no obvious way for me to contact them, I ordered a DVD on the 8th of december and it is now the 21st and I havn't recieved... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Josh
Perfect Halloween viewing!
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Published 18 months ago by Film Fan
Brilliant
Very pleased with the product and the delivery time.
I would always use Amazon for dvds.
I would always use Amazon for dvds.
Published on 21 April 2010 by R. Al-khafaji
My favourite film from one of my favourite directors
I love this film. Its so dark it oozes blackness from every frame. The story is terrific fun, and Johnny Depp is great as an eccentric genius detective using 'modern' methods, such... Read more
Published on 13 April 2010 by Marco M
Good blu ray film, lacked some extras
This item has a really good price tag attached to it, the only thing that prevents it of having 5 stars is the lack of subtitles. Read more
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