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Sleepy Hollow High

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(13)

 

 

This is a pretty stinky (...), even if you're someone like me who generally appreciates homegrown horror films on zero budgets. The concept of a Headless Horsemen masked slasher stalking kids at Sleepy Hollow High had promise and certainly interested me enough to purchase the DVD. Sadly, this film seems to wallow in its ineptitude. Since I could tell the crew only had one good light to use, I was terrified that the plot was leading up to night scenes for the climax. My fears came to life as everything became too dark to see and actors spent whole scenes standing in the only available light without being able to move. The documentary and commentary didn't do much to improve my respect for the director, who spends most of the documentary wearing a woman's dress and acting silly. He seems to be trying to imitate either Trey Parker or Ed Wood (or both), but manages to make both look like incredible artists by comparison. Beware!

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has been told on the screen time and again, and in many different forms, but I must say that this is a first. In the era of "Dawson's Creek" and "Felicity", independent film makers have taken the truely scary concept of the hesdless horseman and turned it into a 90-minute teen soap, complete with bad acting and choppy plot. To stay well within the boundaries of teen soap-ville, USA, all of the important storyline factors apply: who is sleeping with who? who is pregnant? a teen, commit suicide because he boyfriend dumped her? It's like the film makers are addicted the the "Creek", because every plot twist is torn straight from the television series. To make things worse, a little bit of "Scream" and a whole lot of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" is thrown in as well. Add in the cheap look of the film, and cheesy soundtrack, and you're in B-movie heaven. 2 stars, and that's being generous.

This movie wasn't advertised at all, but when I found it, I thought it looked interesting. I''ve always been interested in cheesy horror flicks, especially when there isn't a high budget. This was a strong cast, with strong performances and good looks which always helps. Plus, I really enjoyed the special features. I hope to see more of these young stars, Shannon and Z were my favorites.

I can't believe $17,000.00 was spent on this piece of tripe. Where did the money go? This movie had bad acting, bad lighting, bad sound, bad camera work, bad editing with the same establishing shots shown over and over and over again in nothing more than a lame attempt to get the running time to feature length.

I have seen movies made with less money that are extremely high quality and entertaining.

If you've read any of my other reviews, you know I love low budget horror. Unfortunately, this train wreck of a movie is so bad that it isn't even funny. The camera shots are often so dark that you can't tell what is going on. There is one decent killing where big streams of blood squirts from a body like a Monty Python movie, but otherwise there is nothing here to even keep your attention. Negligible gore, no nudity, horrible acting, awful camera work, no originality...... I could go on. I honestly can say that I haven't fast forwarded through very many movies, but after 45 minutes of this stuff I did and you will too! Stay away from this steamer!

This movie was really BAD! "Bad" is the only adjective to describe it. WHO THE HELL WAS THE CASTING DIRECTOR? I"VE made better films than this piece of crud! STAY AWAY! The cast...BAD
The story... BAD The Direction... umm was there any direction? ...or was it just anyone the cast found that could hold a camcorder and press RECORD. As I watched the movie I thought that it might make up for it's horrible plot by having some cool death scenes and gore. NOTHING! This movie had like.. NO BLOOD! The only Slasher movie that I have ever seen that had no gore and still scared the hell out of you.. was John Carpenter's Halloween! This movie was silly, chessy, and BAD!

If I could I would give this movie negative stars. The costumes: They look like they were made by a middle school drama class. The angles of which it was shot at are horrible and you can never tell what is going on as the screen is practically black all the time. I swear this movie was made with a webcam. I would rather hang myself with my own intestines than watch this again.

Jesus,Joseph, and Mary! I could not believe how truly awful this "film" was. Now, I understand you have to start someplace. Grab your Dad's digital camera and bribe your friends and teachers to be
in your movie.We've all done it. Words of advice: Don't ruin a perfect horror legend like Sleepy Hollow. Don't try to copy "Blair Witch" or "Dawson's Creek". And for the love of God, Do not try to decapitate the blonde using your sister's wig!! And what is with the fat black guy? This was comedy where it was supposed to be terror. I will give one star for the murder weapon: A huge "Excalibur" style sword.That was cool. As for the rest of this disaster, the opening scene could not be seen! Literally. The "acting" was beyond wooden, and the co-director, Chris Arth, should not have admitted that he "directed" at all!

you know some of these low budget movies are alot better than the high budget movies this one was pretty good i'd see it again. not a bad movie at all.

Look inside yourself, not just below the skin or into your nose or mouth, but deeper still. Travel to the center of your innards, but without opening yourself surgically. Here you will find that light does penetrate deeply into flesh and thus your guts are immersed darkness. If you fear the darkness then you will have to travel back to the exterior of your body or perhaps to shallow layers of your epidermis and hope that it is daytime, and that you are outside in the sunlight and not covered by light-blocking clothing.

If you run from the darkness you will never discover that your pancreas secretes amylase, or that the gall bladder produces bile. Perhaps you are afraid of the dark. Maybe there is something that you fear, like the darkness inside you.

If you want to find out what darkness really means then you will watch this movie, in the dark.