Product Details

• Actors: Richard Moll, Billy Aaron Brown, Arianne Fraser, Trish Coren, M. Steven Felty
• Directors: Anthony C. Ferrante
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: First Look Pictures
• DVD Release Date: April 29, 2008
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00116GEFC
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #68,956 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Seven college kids take a shortcut on their way to a party and unfortunately end up in Wormwood – a "lost" town in the middle of nowhere. They find something strange and sinister happening there- bones and weird decorations line Main Street. The cause: local Wormwood legend says on All Hallows Eve one hundred years ago, a crazed man tortured the youngsters in town and then cut off their heads. In retaliation, the townspeople killed him by cutting off his head. Seeking revenge every seven years, he returns and takes seven heads from children in the town. Now the seven visitors find themselves hunted one by one as the Headless Horseman claims his due. Each will do whatever it takes to survive.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Headless Horseman: A Cut Above The Rest, May 9, 2008

By	Matthew DeLuca (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This movie did in fact appear on the Sci-fi channel just a few days before Halloween last year (2007).

As a big Headless Horseman and "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" fan, I really enjoyed this movie.
I must say, that if you are solely a fan of Washington Irving's classic literary story, this movie will probably not appeal to you, because the only thing that this movie has in common with Irving's story is the Headless Horseman. The similarities end there.


As with "Sleepy Hollow", "The Hollow" and other movies, this is a new take on the Headless Horseman legend.
I must warn you, this movie is pretty bloody. If you dont enjoy seeing heads cut off, you wont enjoy it very much. lol

I enjoyed it, because I like the way that they depicted the Headless Horseman. He is cool looking and we see some new things from him that we havent before. Most people think that The Headless Horseman only rides a horse. In this movie, we get a glimpse of him on a motorcycle. Also, in another scene, the Headless Horseman actually flies briefly. I also loved the scenes where "Headless" wears a lighted pumpkin on his shoulders. It's a fantastic Halloween movie, but it can be enjoyed all year 'round.

I can do without all of that "evil" nonsense. In Irving's story, the Headless Horseman wasnt evil. A case can be made that he never even hurt anyone. He just liked to scared the heck out of the Sleepy Hollow villagers.


That is the one thing that I dont like about some of the "Headless" movies.I like to think of "Headless" as a good guy who scares others, but doesnt actually hurt anybody.


This movie has some funny scenes and the actors/actresses do a good job.
I was worried that it would be a "bust". But this movie actually is pretty good. The fact that "Headless" looks cool, and flies, rides the motorcycle, and wears the lighted pumpkin, makes it a 5 Star movie for me.


To summarize, if you are looking for a story about Ichabod Crane, Katrina Van Tassel and Sleepy Hollow, this movie is not for you.

However, if you are looking for a cool movie to enjoy which depicts the Headless Horseman opening up a can of headless whoop-butt, this is the perfect movie for you.

It's a fun movie, as long as you dont take it seriously.

It is after all, simply a movie.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Headless But Not Quite Brainless, January 11, 2009

By	Martin Asiner "Adjunct College Instructor" (Jersey City, NJ) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

In HEADLESS HORSEMAN, director Anthony Ferrante takes considerable liberties with the classic short story by Washington Irving by cloaking it in a grabbag of Revolutionary War Gothicism mixed liberally with the Slasher Teen genre of countless Freddie and Jason retreads. Here, Ferrante places seven teens in a car. These teens include the usual dopy kids, geeks, drama queens, and jock heads. En route to a party, they take a short cut and wind up in an out of the way secluded town called Wormwood, a title which bears no resemblance to the famous line from HAMLET. They learn that more than two centuries ago, a psycho killer liked to lop off the heads of his victims and he continued to do so until the towns people chopped his off in revenge. But wait! Just as true evil never dies, the killer returned every seven years (minus his head) to seek new victims to decapitate. He would ride a black horse and swing various lethal edged weapons to collect his heads. By the time the teens learn all this they find out that their noggins are the true prize.

HEADLLESS HORSEMAN manages to mix some pretty macabre humor with some gross out scenes of head slicing gore. Richard Moll is the movie's only known actor as he plays a mean-spirited country bumpkin store owner who knows only too well what lies in store for the teens. One of the female leads plays a resident who surprisingly enough sympathizes with these stranded youngsters and spends most of the time walking around in a fetching short shorts and revealing blouse that make her seem like a reincarnated Elly May Clampett from the BEVERLY HILLBILLIES. The Horseman himself does far more than merely ride on his steed. He is as equally at home on a motorcycle as he is on his feet. He is, not unsurprisingly enough, immune to the many rifle bullets that come his way. There is an unexpected poke at the stereotype of inbreeding in secluded mountain family groups. Richard Moll, in explaining that the current generation of genetically defective residents all of whom are the direct descendents of the Horseman, notes that he and his clan are merely engaged in "repopulating the town." What emerges by the last reel of HEADLESS HORSEMAN is the unsettling notion that ancient evil and modern grim humor sometimes have to co-exist in a manner that does no favor for either victim or predator.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This movie was sooooo bad....it was almost good !!, July 23, 2008

By	The Jaundiced Eye (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

My opinion is going to differ from a couple of other reviewers. This was a grade "Z" horror flick. The acting was hideous, the script was awful, the casting a mess, and the story line was ridiculous....however, I must admit that I enjoyed watching it. There are some movies that are so grotesque, so rotten, so lousy that they provide a lot of unintended laughs and entertainment, and this was definitely one of them. At no time is there a second of horror or suspense. Every word, every action, every concept has been done thousands of times before and far, far better. But therein lies its charm. It is dead serious. This is not intended to be a parody or joke, like Scary Movie, but in its own way it is (unintentionally) every bit as silly and amusing. The "actors" recite their preposterous lines with total conviction....characters stroll about at a snail's pace despite impending doom....people are decapitated in front of their dear friends and no one seems to notice or care.

On the down side, any "horny teenager" movie worth its salt has to have some obligatory skin scenes, usually a little skinny dipping or bunkhouse groping, but these redeeming virtues are sadly missing from this bomb. Other than a lot of fake kayro-syrup "blood" and some dripping severed-neck shots, this could have been a G-rated Disney flick. This is probably a result of being a made-for-TV movie, originally shown on the Sci-Fi Channel. Why it was ever shown at all is a mystery, but since there is not a single shred of science fiction in any part of this wretched mess, the fact that it was shown on the Sci-Fi Channel just adds to the absurdity.

In conclusion: some movies are just sort-of bad and must be avoided, but movies like this actually distill and perfect badness to such a high degree that they are almost "good". At first, you may shake your head in disbelief that anything this lousy could actually be financed and produced, but eventually you will have to admit that this, like any train wreck or natural disaster, has its own special charm.