Truly Dreadful Film

A different way of telling a story

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I expected the worst here I have to be honest, every previous movie regarding the Headless Horseman mythos has failed royally.Early on it follows the usual formula of a bunch of 20 somethings on a road trip going on a shortcut and running into trouble. So little originality is on display, then you have the shoddy sfx and patchy script and the thing was setup to follow suit and fail miserably.However somehow it came out watchable. The cast are oddly competent, Richard Moll is present and the practical effects look great.Sadly it does trail off a bit and yes as mentioned it has its fair share of flaws. Thankfully there is enough decent content to counter this and Headless Horseman though nothing special is a harmless take your brain out horror effort.I'll say this, it was still better than Sleepy Hollow (1999)The Good:Horseman actually looks okayCast do a great jobRichard MollThe Bad:Patchy scriptSFX aren't greatThings I Learnt From This Movie:When blowing up a car you may as well blow yourself up with it because reasonsHomeless people wouldn't miss their heads

Trying to go to a party, a group of friends find themselves targeted by a cursed town to hold them hostage for a Headless Horseman to continue their curse and must find a way to leave the town alive.This is a really surprising and enjoyable slasher. One of the better elements at play here is the fact that this one manages to retain its creepy vibe throughout, playing this one as something much more than an average take on the genre. The woods here add a really great touch of suspense as there's a large amount of fog over the area, the disorienting designs of the leaf-less trees adding a really great air of creepiness due to all the chasing and stalking set there, and even plenty of the stalking set in town gets quite fun. That carries into the film's better qualities for those stalking scenes, both out in the forest as well as through the town as this one features some really great ones. The car graveyard chase features some great moments with the chase through the rows of skeletal cars, a big outdoor scene in the woods where he chases the group while on horseback and a rather lengthy chase through town that gets really fun and action-packed at times are those really great scenes, though on the whole there's really none that don't work. Added together with the fast-paced storyline and plenty of bloody decapitations that make up the kills here, this one has a lot right about it. There's really only one clear problem here, and that's the over-complication of the story. Although it plays off the long-standing tradition of having the creepy town meting out a supernatural brand of punishment on normal outsiders, this at times seems like its got way too much that takes up a little extra bit of time to further pad the back-story. Its initial explanation gives it plenty to get through but after awhile it just feels like overkill. Otherwise, this is a lot of fun.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language.

A group of seven young people ride into a Deliverance like town in the piney woods in the Appalachians and to their dismay find this is the hunting ground of the headless horseman. Washington Irving did not tell the truth about it being in the Hudson Valley, it was really in Eastern Tennessee. Anyway old headless has been doing his accursed thing for two centuries now.If this one didn't come out on the Science Fiction Channel it would have been one of those early season big screen releases that folks just love to go to for the gore. As the jock types and wise kids get shortened a little bit on Halloween, it turns out that the kid who reads the classic literature, Billy Aaron Brown, comes up with a way to defeat the unreasoning one. Watching this slasher flick, the song that Bing Crosby sang about The Headless Horseman from the Walt Disney cartoon feature of Ichabod Crane kept going through my head. They should have featured it here, it couldn't possibly have hurt the film.

This was a great movie...the acting was average, the characters were average, and the special effects were pretty good but there were some flaws..the sheriff looks like the priest from the century before who originally killed The Legend of Sleepy Hollow but dies violently instead of destroying the demon.They also killed the main bad guy about twice but he would not stay dead. No explanation as to how that is possible. Additionally, they did NOT explain why The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was haunting this small American town and preventing the people from leaving.Watch it...you will NOT be disappointed!