Synopsis
Some Legends Never Die.
The presence of Ichabod Crane's descendant in Sleepy Hollow conjures the Headless Horseman to return and resume his spooky slaughtering.
Directed by Kyle Newman
The presence of Ichabod Crane's descendant in Sleepy Hollow conjures the Headless Horseman to return and resume his spooky slaughtering.
Halloween Macabro, O thanatos erhetai kalpazontas, The hollow - La notte di Ognissanti, The Hollow - Die Rückkehr des kopflosen Reiters, בחזרה לסליפי הולו, 斷頭谷之奪命驚魂夜
I’ve lived in NYC my entire life and somehow never made the short trip to Sleepy Hollow!!! BUT that is going to change this year, because I plan on taking a day trip there this month :D
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” has always been a favorite of mine, and the Headless Horseman has spooked me since I was a kid. So what better way to prepare for my trip than to consume all of the spooky Sleepy Hollow media that exists?!
This was a made-for-TV flick that premiered on ABC family….but there was a scene where a girl gets her pussy eaten while the Headless Horseman chops off her bf’s head during…?! HUH?
Anyway, I find these bad tween…
Forever waiting on a crazed graveyard keeper to find and harass me about being an integral part of a legendary ghost story where I have to fight a ghoulish, pumpkin (be)headed boogeyman with a grave-robbed civil war sword… 🎃
The headless horseman returns and it's up to the teen descendant of Ichabod Crane to stop him. The Hollow originally premiered on ABC Family and very much feels like it, especially thanks to the terrible leads including Kaley Cuoco and Nick Carter. The supporting cast is solid but they're all doing some of their worst work either by sleepwalking through their roles (Judge Reinhold, Nicholas Turturro) or doing whatever the hell it is Stacy Keach is doing here. The R-rated version adds in some brief sex and violence but can't change the cheap teen TV feel. However, I still enjoyed this as a Halloween movie thanks to its pumpkin-headed horseman, haunted hayride, decorations, costumes and trick-or-treating.
October Horror 2020, Day 20, challenge #25 - a film about a phantom
Ehh I kinda lowkey loved this? This is the kind of cosy spooky energy I live for! I'd give it a 4 for the cemetery/barn/hayride/lantern bridge A++ Halloween atmosphere if it wasn't also a super WB-y teen thing with a few weird moments of not-made-for-tv sexual content and gore? (That girl really got some HEAD ehehehe *Cryptkeeper laugh*) I mean it's tame by horror movie standards but felt out of place in such a teen-centered film. Who and what was this made for?? Well me I guess, cause I dug the hell out of it despite its flaws.
When I saw the synopsis and Kaley Cuoco I…
It’s giving TV movie of the week and because of that, a lot of the film felt neutered. It’s a lightweight supernatural slasher that’s missing actual violence. There’s maybe 1-2 “bloody” scenes but that’s it.
The acting is also really bad. Not surprisingly, Nick Carter, is no actor. He tried insanely hard to be the tough jock, but this blaccent kept trying to come out and it was all kinds of wrong. Also, Stacy Keach was living his best Crazy Ralph fantasy and you know what? Good for him.
It’s not a complete bust though. There’s an ample amount of Halloween-ish atmosphere and at 77 minutes (before credits), it does zip by. The epitome of a one and done. 4/10.
What can I say? I love the Headless Horseman. This movie gets a big bump just for that. This is an October staple for me. It does a pretty great job of capturing the Halloween spirit. It's also cheap and kind of bad. But I just enjoy it anyway.
-- Daily Horror Hunt #16 (October 2019) Day 26. It's National Pumpkin Day - Watch something with a pumpkin on the poster.
-- It’s getting colder and I’m staying inside, watching horror movies in October (but I pretty much prefer to stay inside anyway) FEST 2019. Movie #9.
“But it’s not just another place on the map. This is the birthplace of the most famous ghost story there ever was.”
No it’s not perfect by any means but as a fan of the headless horseman / sleepy hollow lore this movie is fun and campy as hell! I say get a few friends together drink some beers smoke a blunt and this will be a fun ride! 😈
uh ok for whatever reason i did not connect the dots here until i saw melissa schuman's face this is the movie where she met nick carter, where he raped her????? i'm asklhkas i got the wind knocked out of me when i realized, my fun vibes watching a nick carter tv horror movie from 2004 got wiped out in an instant. i was rereading nick's book as previously mentioned i wasn't truly anticipating any fun like i might've if i hadn't refreshed myself on nick lore b/c this was a super rough period in his life where he was partying too hard getting wrecked on weed coke & booze to cope with his own trauma (nasty abusive family shit, getting…
A crazy-ralphed Stacy Keach keeps hounding a teenager over his ancestry to Ichabod Crane. The high schooler can't be bothered since it's Halloween and there's a hayride to host and girl to swoon. But maybe the coot's right when a headless horseman too happy to behead storms the trail.
Homogenization perfect for tween consumption. Mostly Kevin Yegers, Kaley Cuoco, and Nick Carter living that oh-so-heavy teen life until the flaming pumpkin slices its way to the descendant in the third act. Stamped with an R, slight omissions and this is airing on Nickelodeon. Maybe more if subtracting queasy innuendo between adults and youngsters. Despite its disc climbing in price on eBay, those nostalgic might be better off leaving the memory alone. Watched via First Look's DVD.
Kaley Cuoco is lucky for scoring her gig on The Big Bang Theory, because otherwise she would just be another pretty face among these nobodies who kind of look like actual celebrities in this C-tier Sleepy Hollow slasher. Those include Not-Zac Effron, Not-Sarah Michelle Geller, and a Washed-Up Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys. Unsurprisingly, Stacy Keach steals the show.
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” as told by Geoffrey Crayon from the letters of Diedrich Knickerbocker (and written by Washington Irving IRL) is probably my favorite story ever told. I love it in all its forms, so take my opinions on anything bearing its name with a grain of salt.
I was planning to finally visit Sleepy Hollow, New York this fall but it looks like THAT SHIT ain’t happening anymore, and I’m honestly really bummed thinking about that. I feel selfish feeling bummed about anything with what’s going on in the world right now but I’ve been looking forward to it for two years ever since I got to make the trek to Salem for Halloween. Folks up north…
“You’re gonna be picking up heads out of the graveyard.”
The fall and Halloween vibes in this are so cozy. THE PUMPKINS stunning ✨. Its definitely a B horror movie but its fun as fuck and has a cast you would only see together in the early 2000’s, I’m talking we got the dude from Air buddy (not the dog), Penny from the Big Bang theory, the step dad from Santa clause… oh yeah and Nick Carter.
I remember when it first premiered it was on ABC family during their 13 nights of Halloween so obviously “made for tv movie” when I was 9 and it was pretty tame. But I enjoyed it because
it’s the headless horseman duh.
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