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...would retreat to darkened movie theaters in the hope that The Blair Witch Project or Scream would offer the scare that I was looking for. But I was living in the eerie center of a real life ghost story the whole time, and never appreciated it. So when I took the opportunity to return home this past weekend, I was determined to maintain a vigilant awareness of all the ghosts and ghouls that would cross my path. If Washington Irving could see them, and Tim Burton could see them, I certainly wasn't going to let them evade...
...landscape and architecture. We toured through the small cottage that Irving had built and lived in until his death. We even got gossip about Irving's love life and family life. The tour was informative. It was even enjoyable. But, I had been looking for the sensationalism of a ghost hunt, and our charming tour guide clearly had more respectable motive. He had a genuine interest in the life and writings of Washington Irving, and this passion came through. But, as far as making my blood run cold, the brisk November air was doing a better job than spirits...
...thought there was going to be ghost stuff popping out of the floor," another said of the tour, with a slight tinge of disappointment. I guess I had as well. But, it seems that for that kind of fun, I will have to shell out my eight bucks, buy some popcorn and settle into those movie theater seats to see what kind horror film Tim Burton has made...
...Washington Irving's classic ghost story of the Headless Horseman provides merely a jumping off point for Burtons dark imaginings. For those who have not read the book or watched the Disney cartoon, the traditional tale is set in Sleepy Hollow, a small New York suburb, in 1799. A headless horseman haunts the outskirts of the town and chops off people's heads in revenge for having lost his own --or so goes the rumor in town. When lanky, schoolteaching Ichabod Crane comes to town, alienating the locals with his intellectual pretentiousness, he scoffs at the legend and further ruffles...
...Those who want to revive their childhood reactions to this spooky but charming ghost story should rerent the Disney cartoon. Sleepy Hollow in Burton's hands is a darker, stranger, cheaper shade of horror. It's less clippety-cloppety, more blood-spattery. Irving's simple three-main-character plot gives way to a convoluted collection of Van Tassles and other conniving townspeople who sustain an even more convoluted chain of mysterious events for the investigative Ichabod to logically piece together. More of a saga and certainly scarier and gorier than the original tale, the film version maintains an oddly light...