The residents of Sleepy Hollow are terrified. With the recent wave of murders, the victims' heads severed from their bodies Crane (played by Johnny Depp) is sent to investigate and make sense of what is going on. Superstition runs rampant. The tales of ghosts and evil spirits permeate throughout the village as Crane tries to make sense of it all through “scientific methods.”
The town is bathed in shades of gray. The trees barren and lifeless. Their corpses collecting in piles beneath them. The people keeping a watchful eye towards the woods waiting for the Headless Horseman. His presence being felt throughout the village.
One by one people began to die. Crane, confident in his methods, first went out to find a man. What he found instead was something different. What he found would change how he thought and shake his very beliefs to the core.
The story revolves around a conspiracy. How the Headless Horseman doesn’t just kill at random, he only kills those he is told to. Someone was controlling him. Which begs the question: “Who?”
The families of Sleepy Hollow are all, in some way or another, related and there would be a few people who could benefit from these deaths. But weeding them out one by one proved to be a challenge.
Upon reaching Sleepy Hollow, Crane meets and befriends Katrina (played by Christina Ricci). As they work together, Katrina, determined to help him, their relationship only grows stronger. It was your typical, cliché romance but it worked out well in this story.
What I found, though, was that the story was in some ways predictable. They played off of tired tropes. Everything in this film you have probably seen before but still, It was rather entertaining even if it wasn’t entirely original.
Tim Burton created something beautiful here. The story is a dark work of art, something in his typical “gothic” style. A story that confronts the dangers of hate and revenge and how often times the victims are sometimes ourselves.
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