Night of The Headless Horseman (1999)

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10 ай бұрын

I taped this off of TV. Unfortunately I didn't get the best reception but here it is if you 1) Know it 2) Want to watch it again.
Unfortunately KZbin is now forcing ads on this video, gawd they fuck everything up. I can't disable them and I am not, nor do I intend to make any money from this upload... I have an actual job and this KZbin channel is just my hobby for de-stressing.
I deinterlaced the video with QTGMC and used ai for uprezzing and reducing a bit of noise.
UPDATE: I found a sealed official VHS release of The Night of the Headless Horseman and digitized it on its first play on an S-VHS player with an integrated TBC. I'll be uploading it in time for the 2024 Halloween season.
Since it's a proper factory recorded VHS, it has none of the hallmarks of live TV recording, so there are no dropouts, fuzzy noise or jump cuts from avoiding commercial breaks. It also includes the deleted "gory shot" not shown on TV.

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@xXLunatikxXlul 10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for posting this with slightly updated visuals and sound - Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃👻🦇

@RunningWithSewingShears Ай бұрын

I have this on VHS. Thank you for showing the cleaned up version. I love The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. For the time, this was a good little movie.

@bayanimiguelacebedo5491 3 ай бұрын

Remember freaking out to this movie as a kid. Just rented it off the video store because I didn't know where to get the Disney version which I read about in a book.

@scoobyslick4690 9 ай бұрын

Loved this adaptation to Washington Irving's tale! Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃🗡️🗡️

@SpecialFX83 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for finding this movie!! I haven't seen this in years!!!

@headlesspiper936 2 ай бұрын

i been looking for this and this my favorite story ever

@LindeeLove 9 ай бұрын

I can't believe how technology has advanced so much since 1999. Back then I was just getting into stuff like Maya and 3D Studio Max. I'm still doing Maya as a hobby today.

@alecton 9 ай бұрын

Back then, this type of animation was already scoffed at, (not by me though, that's why I taped it). But audiences were already spoiled, it had been 6 years since Jurassic Park and 1999 already had The Matrix, Star Wars Episode 1 and Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow coming out. CG was already a popular term to explain away anything an audience couldn't figure out how to do effectswise. But looking back at it now, and remembering how comparatively slow computers were, it's a complete miracle this was done for TV by a small animation studio in the 90s.

@Tundra793 10 ай бұрын

Perfect timing for this, cheers friend! Weird that this version appears censored though.

@alecton 9 ай бұрын

Really? Censored? Did it have gorier scenes?

@Tundra793 9 ай бұрын

@@alecton The only scene I’m 100% sure was censored, is the scene right after the horseman is shot. In the version I had, there’s a shot following the head as it rolls and settles on the ground. Quite gory.

@77elvistheking 9 ай бұрын

@@Tundra793 Yep.. in my VHS also : D

@alecton 4 ай бұрын

@@Tundra793 I just digitized an official VHS release and you're right, the headless horseman's head DOES roll after he's shot, it even has part of the spinal cord still attached to it.

@christopherkirka1115 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for this, pure nostalgia!

@SarahJareth 12 күн бұрын

This is like really rough Barbie movie CG

@yamidelacroix6729 4 ай бұрын

I remember my mum renting this on VHS, she let me watch it alone during the afternoon but she closed the curtains so the room was dark...I remember this film actually terrifying me, there was just something about it. I was probably about 5 or 6 maybe. Good times 😂 I'd definitely watch a remake of this with better graphics, its so well done.

@999haunted 28 күн бұрын

Here's something interesting. This TV version and VHS version are different. The VHS copies are roughly 10 minutes longer than the TV airing and some scenes are edited differently and even some lines of dialogue and sound effects that are different.(Possibly as a way to not make this special "too scary" for kids) Here's differences in the VHS vs TV airing. 16:57 In VHS version, instead of a flash of the horseman's severed head the head is actually shown landing and rolling on the ground 18:02 VHS, the lights temporarily goes out after the lightning strike. But the TV version makes more since since electricity wasn't a thing in the early 19th century 19:50 This scene if a few minutes longer in the VHS version. Brom Bones sneaks up to the schoolhouse window and shoots a couple slings at Ichabod and convinces bad CG kid to joke about the headless horseman wanting Ichabod's head. Then the scene continues the way Brom walks up to the schoolhouse 31:24 Ichabod and Catrina's dance sequence is a minute and 15 seconds longer in the VHS version 37:00-37:30 There's a more chilling/haunting music score when Ichabod starts his ride in the VHS version 38:40 Disembodied echoes of voices calling Ichabod's name is only in the VHS version, hence why Ichabod makes the statement about the echoes gunpowder's hooves even the haunting music is changed 40:05 This entire chase sequence is has things mixed around in the TV version with different sound effects is used than the VHS. The biggest change is the end. The VHS shows the flaming jack o lantern collide with Ichabod's head and the horesman's laugh instead of this weird freeze frame 42:42 the final difference is in this version is instead of a fishbowl warped effect on Ichabod's face , the VHS version shows the same model of Ichabod's head with a different darker color scheme and glowing eyes.

@alecton 28 күн бұрын

@@999haunted Thanks for the breakdown. I bought a sealed VHS copy of Night of the Headless Horseman. I'll be uploading it this September, while digitizing it I did see the severed head with the spinal cord. I'll pay attention to the other changes you pointed out.