{"id":38797025,"date":"2004-10-26T04:49:14","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2004\/10\/horror-film-fes.html"},"modified":"2013-04-05T05:36:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T05:36:16","slug":"200410horror-film-fes-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2004\/10\/26\/200410horror-film-fes-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror Film Fest: Sleepy Hollow"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first movie of our Halloween Film Festival is Sleepy Hollow<\/a>, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. I’ve always enjoyed Tim Burton’s movies. He has a real flair for the creepy and so ‘Sleepy Hollow’ was a good pick for kicking off this Halloween week film fest.<\/p>\n

From the start you know this movie’s going to be cool, with a constant grey and foreboding atmosphere and some quick gruesome deaths. Really a great start. Unlike the clumsy schoolteacher from the Disney version of this tale, Johnny Depp’s Ichabod Crane is a New York City homicide detective who gets himself in trouble at work with his insistence that science can help solve crimes. He’s kind of a colonial-era forebearer to William Patterson’s character Gil Grissom on C.S.I.<\/p>\n

So Icahabod the skeptical detective is sent to the boonies to investigate a spate of recent beheadings. Much darkness, blood and special effects laden mayhem ensues, and it is good. Two items muddy the story; Ichabod’s flashbacks that slowly reveal some black magic in his own past, and the way too complicated ‘it would have all worked if not for you meddling kids’ ending.<\/p>\n

But there’s enough blood and gore to overcome these story faults. And in a role that didn’t require any time wasted on learning lines, Christopher Walken makes a very scary horseman.<\/p>\n

On the Casey movie rating scale, I give it one thumb up. Not WAY up, just up.<\/p>\n

further reading:<\/b> Sleepy Hollow<\/a> from Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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