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Don't lose your head, but Tim Burton's most horrifying horror movie is galloping on to a new physical media release this fall. One of his most successful collaborations with Johnny Depp, the film is his most straightforward gothic horror tale; and now, it will be contained in a handsome SteelBook.
Sleepy Hollow is coming to a 4K SteelBook on September 22. Loosely adapted from Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Sleepy Hollow was penned by Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en), and featured Oscar-nominated art direction, cinematography, and costume design. Burton crafted the film as an homage to the classic horror movies of Hammer Films, and boasts an impressive cast of character actors in its supporting cast, including Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Ian McDiarmid, Michael Gough, and Hammer's own Dracula, Christopher Lee. The film was successful with critics and audiences, garnering a 71% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and earning $200 million USD at the box office. The SteelBook also includes a director's commentary from Tim Burton, the making-of documentary Behind the Legend, and the retrospective featurette Reflections on Sleepy Hollow.
What Is 'Sleepy Hollow' About?
Depp stars as Ichabod Crane, a detective with a dark past who's dispatched to the rural burg of Sleepy Hollow in 1799 to investigate a series of gruesome decapitations. The locals believe the killings are the work of the Headless Horseman, a local legend of a spectral mercenary who was decapitated in the Revolutionary War. Unlike in some tellings of the tale, this Horseman is all too real: he's an undead Hessian with a mouthful of gnarly teeth, a detachable cranium, and the chilling visage of Christopher Walken. However, there's an unseen hand controlling the Horseman, and Crane's head is the next one on their list. Meanwhile, Crane has found romance with local spiritualist Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci), whose family is deeply entangled with the Horseman. Crane is running out of time to solve the mystery, or heads are going to roll...
The Headless Horseman will ride again. Hollow, a new interpretation of the classic tale by Pet Sematary: Bloodlines' Lindsey Anderson Beer, is in the works at Sony Pictures; Sydney Sweeney is set to star as Katrina, a woman caught up in a supernatural love triangle.
Sleepy Hollow will be available in a 4K SteelBook on September 22. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
