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With Sleepy Hollow, Tim Burton was back again, in his familiar dark, horror territory. Based on the short story by Washington Irving, who created the other famous American character, Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow, was Burton’s homage to Hammer Movies, who produced those memorable horror flicks during 60’s and 70’s.

Right from it’s basic theme of a mysterious headless horseman, who goes around killing people in a remote village, to its dark, scary style, Sleepy Hollow was vintage Hammer. The movie is set in 1799, when New York police detective Ichabod Crane(Johnny Depp) is asked to investigate a series of mysterious murders in the village of Sleepy Hollow, where all the victims are found to be headless. In reality, this was a way to get rid of Crane, whose methods of scientific investigation and forensics, are anathema to the police dept, which believs in rough and ready …