Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving's classic American folk tale gets the Hammer horror treatment - complete with a Christopher Lee cameo - in Burton's sweeping, suspenseful, gothic remake.

Burton's inspired adaptation pits the enduring mythological image of the Headless Horseman against the 'new world' figure of Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp), reinvented as a New York City sleuth who, in stark contrast, is all but imprisoned within the rational workings of his own (somewhat addled, sleep-prone) head.

Jeffrey Jones (Ed Wood), Richard Griffiths (Withnail & I) and Michael Gambon (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) lend sly menace to their roles as town burghers, with Miranda Richardson and Christopher Walken in (surprise, surprise) wildly top form.

"As beautifully crafted a film as anyone could ever hope to see, Sleepy Hollow is an entertainingly eccentric horror that envelopes the audience in a dreamy nightmare" Variety