The wonderful Christina Ricci is wasted in an ingenue part. Indeed, the movie frequently brings to mind those sublime Carol Burnett Show movie parodies, especially when the villain ultimately finds time for a detailed confession as the planned final victim is waiting for the Headless Horseman to arrive. But the ludicrousness of some of the plot turns and the exaggerated fright reactions leave him with the most outrageous eye-rolling since Harvey Korman's imitation of a silent film star. As it spins, the bird appears to be inside the cage, an optical illusion, and, not by coincidence, the very illusion (persistence of vision) that makes viewers think that the people in the thousands of still pictures that make up a movie are really moving.ĭepp plays Crane with the right haunted look and rigid posture. Master storyteller Tim Burton casts this classic horror story into chillingly enchanting form. He describes himself as "imprisoned by a chain of reasoning." He keeps coming back to a toy given to him by his mother, a spinning disk with a bird on one side and a cage on the other. reality appear throughout the movie as Crane must understand his own past to see the truth. SLEEPY HOLLOW is less the Washington Irving story than it is Scream set in post-Revolution times. Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane Christina Ricci as Katrina Van Tassel Miranda Richardson as Lady Van Tassel / Crone Michael Gambon as Baltus Van Tassel Casper. Contains content not recommended for viewing by any person below the age of 16. Released August 29th, 2014, Sleepy Hollow: Cast and Creators Live at PALEYFEST stars The movie has a runtime of about, and received a user score of (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews. | RATED "16" - Suitable only for persons aged 16 years and over. There is strong fantasy violence throughout the aftermath of the violence is more graphic than the violence itself. | OTHER ISSUES - There is one brief scene of moderate sex. There are occasional moments of strong injury detail where decapitated bodies are examined, and there is close-up sight of their neck wounds, including one moment where a cockroach crawls out of a corpse's neck injury, as well as other moments where people are seen splattered with blood. Strong horror and threat occurs throughout, including one scene of strong bloody horror where a woman's corpse falls out of an iron maiden torture device causing blood to spill out onto a young boy, as well as a scene where a character finds a bundle of bloody severed heads in a tree. Other moments of gore include brief sight of a man getting chopped in half, and a scene where a man is impaled with a spike through his back and dragged out of a window. These gory scenes are only occasionally accompanied by sight of blood spurting. MAIN CONTENT ISSUES - There are images of strong gore throughout, mainly in the aftermath of violence after people have had their heads chopped off, with frequent sight of the severed heads.
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