"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a story that everyone knows, and nobody forgets. Everyone knows the tale: Ichabod
Crane, a cowardly school teacher newly arrived in the town of Sleepy Hollow, falls victim to the Headless Horseman and is never seen from again.
Tim Burton has changed it drastically, and to the better. While some people might like the simplistic version that has been played out over so many decades, Burton''s version is more complicated, more gruesome, and more entertaining. The only thing that the movie resembles of the original legend is the name Ichabod Crane, the town of Sleepy Hollow, and the existence of the headless horseman. In the movie, there is a conspiracy, murder plots, magic, and the past of both the Headless Horseman and Ichabod Crane are looked in to.
No other director could have pulled Sleepy Hollow off better than Burton. With such dark films as Batman and Edward Scissorhands, which also starred Johnny Depp, Sleepy Hollow is a perfect match. The setting is dark and forlorn, with a sense of loneliness and solitude. The town itself is a piece of work and the woods are about as creepy as can be.