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Sleepy Hollow (1999) is a historical horror film directed by Tim Burton interpreting the legend of the Headless Horseman and based loosely around the Washington Irving story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Primary filming was carried out at Leavesden Film Studios.

This film was scored by Danny Elfman.

Plot

Tagline: Heads Will Roll.

In 1799, young policeman Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent from New York City to the fledgling settlement of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of ghoulish murders.

On his arrival, the town council informs him that the three victims were killed in open ground, and the heads had disappeared, taken by a headless ghost that is supposedly responsible. Ichabod is unconvinced of this, but learns more about the ghostly horseman: it is the ghost of a Hessian, sent by the British during the Revolutionary War; he was decapitated with his own sword. When Ichabod sees the ghost kill one of the town council members, his skepticism evaporates, he soon discovers that the horseman's ghost has an unholy connection to Balthus Van Tassel, a wealthy farmer, and whose daughter (Christina Ricci) Ichabod is falling in love with.

Trivia

The film was shot almost entirely using a blue camera filter. Therefore, for blood to appear red, the mixture used was actually bright orange.

Christopher Walken
, who plays the Headless Horseman, played a schoolteacher in The Dead Zone
(1983), in the beginning of which he tells his class to read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Because this film was released in 1999, Ichabod says at the beginning of the movie, "Gentlemen, The millennium is almost upon us." This, however, is inaccurate, as only a century was passing, not a millenium.

Cast

Johnny Depp - Constable Ichabod Crane
Christina Ricci - Katrina Anne Van Tassel
Miranda Richardson
- Lady Mary Van Tassel
Sir Michael Gambon - Baltus Van Tassel
Christopher Walken - The Headless Horseman
Richard Griffiths
- Magistrate Phillipse
Casper Van Dien
- Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt
Marc Pickering - Young Masbeth
Jeffrey Jones
- Reverend Steenwyck
Christopher Lee
- Burgomaster
Ian McDiarmid
- Dr. Thomas Lancaster
Michael Gough
- Notary James Hardenbrook
Lisa Marie
- Ichabod's Mother
Claire Skinner
- Midwife Elizabeth 'Beth' Killian

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