Crane comes from the city with new investigative techniques and slowly learns that not every crime can be solved with science. This movie is full of spooky atmosphere: horse drawn carriage rides through the dark and eerie woods with pumpkin headed scarecrows observing; ever present fog and mist; deep dark woods full of gnarled trees, an almost Gothic looking little village and glowing jack-o-lanterns. The headless horseman is extremely scary galloping out of the woods on his horse toward the growing list of victims that he decapitates. This movie does have some blood and shows the decapitations but it's done in a way that is not too gory - it's just an integral part of the story.
Johnny Depp does an excellent job playing the fussy Ichabod Crane and the movie definitely has an undercurrent of tongue in cheek humor amongst the horror story. What an excellent movie that I know I will watch over many times. I don't know what took me so long to find this gem!
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