HEADLESS HORSEMAN (2007) is a modern-day spin on the famous Washington Irving story that inspired Tim Burton's SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999). As a TV B-movie, shot in Romania and first shown on the Sci Fi Channel, you'd be forgiven for not expecting too much from this one, and you'd be right as it's not so great. However, I found it fairly watchable for a low budget film, about as good as one of these can get. The story is interchangeable with dozens of others, with your usual assorted teens heading off to a remote locale and getting caught up with a local and very murderous legend. A few twists on the horseman here: not much in the of horse-riding, but instead a villain modelled on the one in JEEPERS CREEPERS with some cool regenerative FX that reminded me of Uncle Frank in HELLRAISER. Quite a bit of gore too which the gorehounds among us will enjoy.
Review of Headless Horseman
