Sleepy Hollow

1999

Heads Will Roll

Constable Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to discover who is behind the grizzly murders plaguing the town. He is equipped with the latest scientific gadgets, however he is squamish when it comes to examining the decapitated bodies. He must hunt down the famed "Headless Horseman" who is back from the grave to take revenge on the town that finally killed him, all the while attempting to win the love of Katrina Van Tassel, the daugter of the most influential man in Sleepy Hollow.

105 mins. Johnny Depp: Constable Ichabod Crane Christina Ricci: Katrina Van Tassel Miranda Richardson: Lady Mary Van       Tassel / Western Woods Crone Michael Gambon: Baltus Van Tassel Casper Van Dien: Brom Van Brunt Jeffrey Jones: Reverend Steenwyck Christopher Lee: The Burgomeister Richard Griffiths: Magistrate Samuel Phillips Ian McDiarmid: Dr. Thomas Lancaster Michael Gough: Notary James Hardenbrook Marc Pickering: Young Masbath Lisa Marie: Lady Crane Christopher Walken: Headless Horseman Martin Landau: Peter Van Garret Mark Spalding: Jonathan Masbath Sam Fior: Young Ichabod

"I had never really done anything that was more of a horror film, and it's funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre. The script that had images in it that I liked - the Windmill, the Tree of the Dead - although I'm not a big horse fan. And it's a fascinating story, a story that a lot of people know about but that nobody's really read. Everybody thinks they've read the book, including me. But I actually only read it not that long ago...In a way it's much better in your mind than it is in reality. But it's kind of nice that it is an early American horror story, because there aren't that many of them. And I think that's why people know it - because it's got the kind of symbolism that good fairy tales or horror stories have...I guess I know it better for the Disney cartoon more than anything else; I remember always liking that...It had a very good mixture of humor and scariness - a sort of fun, energetic, visceral kind of scariness...I think I have always responded to characters who have conflicts of interest within themselves, and Ichabod's a character who's pretty fucked up, in the sense that he's smart but sometimes there's a kind of tunnel vision... Reading the script, what I liked about Ichabod, which is different from the cartoon, is that he was written very much as somebody who's just living too much in here - inside of his own head - and not relating to what's happening in the rest of the world. And that, juxtaposed against a character with no head, was a really good dynamic. -Tim Burton, Burton on Burton