Headless Horseman

The movie is good..it was unfairly rated.

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I love Gothic style horror and while I knew this was NOT going to be on the same par as the Johnny Depp version, I figured I'd give it a try. I really shouldn't have. GREAT start and for a few seconds, I was hopeful. It was short lived. Honestly, are there REALLY people that are THAT vapid in the world? If so, I'm glad I haven't met them because I'd slap the taste out of their mouth. Really...do people actually in the real world make time to be around sniveling morons who act like they're 12? No lie...I remember my friends and I being stupid like these people, in JUNIOR HIGH...circa 13-14 years old! Do these filmmakers get a budget and say, "okay, we have money! Let's go hog wild making a STUPID movie!"? I was having doubts by the time everyone left the store and then when Miss Inbred Reject from The Dukes of Hazzard showed up with her ridiculous accent, I knew all was lost. And it just got worse... Go do yard work, plant farmland, build a rocket... seriously, do ANYTHING but waste your time on this drivel.

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.

7 college students (most of them look like they go through their second divorce already) make a road trip and find themselves in a strange small town. Conveniently, the townspeople have to sacrifice SEVEN young people to the Headless Horseman, who visits the town every halloween... What can be said about the movie: The special effects are bad, the story is boring and the acting is sometimes ridiculous (especially the old store owner). The Headless Horseman itself looks ok, but lacks scariness. The sets are decent. Conclusion: It's bad, but it's not "best of the worst" material either. Just boring, predictable and trashy. P. S.: Elizabeth Prestel's (Candy) acting style fits better in an Adult Movie...

Trying to go to a party, a group of friends find themselves targeted by a cursed town to hold them hostage for a Headless Horseman to continue their curse and must find a way to leave the town alive. This is a really surprising and enjoyable slasher. One of the better elements at play here is the fact that this one manages to retain its creepy vibe throughout, playing this one as something much more than an average take on the genre. The woods here add a really great touch of suspense as there's a large amount of fog over the area, the disorienting designs of the leaf-less trees adding a really great air of creepiness due to all the chasing and stalking set there, and even plenty of the stalking set in town gets quite fun. That carries into the film's better qualities for those stalking scenes, both out in the forest as well as through the town as this one features some really great ones. The car graveyard chase features some great moments with the chase through the rows of skeletal cars, a big outdoor scene in the woods where he chases the group while on horseback and a rather lengthy chase through town that gets really fun and action-packed at times are those really great scenes, though on the whole there's really none that don't work. Added together with the fast-paced storyline and plenty of bloody decapitations that make up the kills here, this one has a lot right about it. There's really only one clear problem here, and that's the over-complication of the story. Although it plays off the long-standing tradition of having the creepy town meting out a supernatural brand of punishment on normal outsiders, this at times seems like its got way too much that takes up a little extra bit of time to further pad the back-story. Its initial explanation gives it plenty to get through but after awhile it just feels like overkill. Otherwise, this is a lot of fun. Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language.

While better than average, "Headless Horseman" is yet another example of how the industry corrupts a genre by running winning formulas into the ground, in this case the old familial horror category. Although started by "Psycho" back in 1960, the genre did not really get going until the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". It combined the weird family stuff with elements from 'Deliverance" to portray backwoods American people as demented in-breds who bring their victims to a place they have turned into a slaughterhouse; insert obligatory junk yard of prior victims stuff - which in this case includes a bucket of cell phones which made little sense since later on you learn that the killings only happen for one day every seven years. "Headless Horseman" adds in some "Wrong Turn", "House of Wax", and "Sleepy Hollow" stuff to the standard mix. Although not much of a story it does have excellent production design (perhaps because it was filmed in Europe), about the right level of computer effects, and a cast that includes several great looking actresses. Best of all it subtly takes the self-parody route, everything is played straight-but just enough over the top to provide some amusement value to a discerning viewer (the Candy character and Richard Moll's shopkeeper being the best examples of this). The obvious absurdities make it easy to suspend disbelief- knowing that not even a complete idiot would behave the way these characters do at times throughout the movie. Seven college kids find themselves being systematically exterminated by a horseman from hell (who at times has a head and at other times is headless) in the backwoods of Missouri. There is less misogyny than usual and the writer manages to avoid the usual off-kilter moral force that punishes the cast for engaging in sex and mild drug use (they do neither). There is a fair amount of gore but the "R" rating is extreme; the film should not be a problem for anyone of middle school age or older. The DVD has not special features related to the film itself. Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

watched this the other night on sci-fi, very interesting take on the legend of sleepy hollow, but this is supposed to take place in a different town called Wormwood. a man made a deal with the devil a long tim e ago and now the town has to suffer the consequences of his actions. enter the clueless teens that wonder off of the beaten path, they run over a bear trap and in taking the short cut are now stranded and late to a party in the big city.. mostly the town is inbreeding but not all, apparently the horsemen needs so many heads by midnight if not the town ceases to exist, one character that i like is appropriately named "Candy" she is very pretty and adopted, so technically not one of the inbreeding clan, all in all it's not a bad picture,

A little better than average for a Sci-Fi channel movie. Now, stop me if you heard this one before. A group of college friends decides to take a shortcut through the woods on the way to a Halloween party, whereupon their truck breaks down, and the inbred inhabitants of a small town set upon them. (Amazingly, the Skiffy Channel had to film this in Romania, because apparently they couldn't find one of the inbred redneck towns they seem to think dot the countryside of rural America.) The discover that the Headless Horseman of legend must collect seven heads every Halloween, in order to preserve the town of accursed souls. Now, this is pretty much the plot of every bad horror movie you've ever seen. What makes this one better than most? I think the characters were more interesting than they usually are in films like this, which is good. You had Richard Moll playing the proprietor of the general store, which added some comedy to the film. Overuse of CGI for special effects, but the plot held together reasonably well. Or maybe I've seen so many bad ones that an okay one doesn't offend as much as they normally do.