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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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Johnny Depp stars as Ichabod Crane, a man who has to confront the legend of the axe-wielding headless horseman in order to win the heart of Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci). Set in 1799, Sleepy Hollow is based on Washington Irving's classic tale "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Faithful to the dreamy custom-bound world that Irving paints in his story, the film mixes horror, fantasy and romance and features an extraordinary cast of characters who dabble in the supernatural.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very Poor,
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This review is from: Sleepy Hollow [Blu-ray] (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.
30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Bother,
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This review is from: Sleepy Hollow [Blu-ray] (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:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining... a real Halloween delight !,
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This review is from: Sleepy Hollow [DVD] [2000] (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.
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