Sleepy Hollow (film)
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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 (very) 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
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 Baltus 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.
- Three of the actors, Christopher Lee (Burgomaster), Ian McDiarmid (Lancaster) and Ray Park (horseman stunt double), all portrayed villains in the Star Wars saga as Darth Tyranus, Darth Sidious and Darth Maul, respectively.
- Johnny Depp would faint twenty-eight times in this movie.
- Tied with Bringing Out the Dead as the last film released in America on laserdisc.
- Richard Griffiths and Sir Michael Gambon are both in the "Harry Potter" series; Griffiths plays Uncle Vernon, and Gambon plays Albus Dumbledore (As of the third film "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"). Miranda Richardson also has a role in one of the "Harry Potter" films; she plays Rita Skeeter in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
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
External links
- [Online Trailer]
- [}}}] at Rotten Tomatoes
- [Keith Short - Film Sculptor] Sculpted the Tree of the Dead for this film
| Tim Burton |
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| Director |
| The Island of Doctor Agor | Stalk of the Celery | Vincent | Frankenweenie | Pee-wee's Big Adventure | Beetlejuice | Batman | Edward Scissorhands | Batman Returns | Ed Wood | Mars Attacks! | Sleepy Hollow | Planet of the Apes | Big Fish | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Corpse Bride | Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd | Believe It or Not |
| Producer |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | James and the Giant Peach | Batman Forever |
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