Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Sleepy Hollow rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.3/10· 406K votes

Rotten Tomatoes71%

Metacritic65%

TMDb7.19/10· 7K votes

With 71% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.3/10 on IMDb and 65/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Sleepy Hollow

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.

Cast of Sleepy Hollow

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  Johnny Depp

  as Ichabod Crane

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  Christina Ricci

  as Katrina Van Tassel

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  Miranda Richardson

  as Lady Mary Van Tassel / Crone Witch

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  Michael Gambon

  as Baltus Van Tassel

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  Casper Van Dien

  as Brom Van Brunt

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  Jeffrey Jones

  as Reverend Steenwyck

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  Richard Griffiths

  as Bürgermeister Phillipse

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  Ian McDiarmid

  as Dr. Lancaster

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  Michael Gough

  as Notary Hardenbrook

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  Christopher Walken

  as Hessian Horseman

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  Marc Pickering

  as Young Masbath

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  Lisa Marie

  as Lady Crane

Sleepy Hollow facts

Budget

$100M

Box office

$206.1M

Our take on Sleepy Hollow

Tim Burton reworks the Headless Horseman legend into a gothic murder mystery, sending skeptical detective Ichabod Crane to a fog-bound New York hamlet to investigate a string of decapitations the locals blame on a vengeful specter. Burton pushes his signature style to its fullest: inky shadows, a desaturated storybook palette, and a mood balanced between eerie beauty and macabre humor. It suits viewers who prize atmosphere and design over airtight logic, offering scares that are stylized rather than visceral. Fans of gothic horror, autumnal dread, and Burton's fairy-tale darkness will find it a rich sensory experience, while those seeking gritty realism should look elsewhere.