Sleepy Hollow [1999] | Credits/Title Sequence

[@Tsagia]

One of the most atmospheric movies ever

[@Dohsoda]

This film definitely deserved to win an Oscar for it's Art Direction.

[@Maskphan1]

I think it is the most visually sumptuous horror film, honestly. Only ones that come close in recent memory are "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and "Crimson Peak." Both of them had script or acting problems that overshadowed the work, though. This film was more of a perfect medley of Hammer horror film homage and American folk lore.

[@TheWelchProductions]

@@Maskphan1 Midsommar takes that title now.

[@mattbernabe]

@@Maskphan1 Agree! "Crimson Peak" would have been brilliant if it had a better script and performances. Plus, I wish they used more practical effects. Some of the CGI just took some of the magic away.

[@Barqu3ntine]

I love how Danny Elfman builds up the climax precisely to when his name appears on screen haha.

[@poppyonline4034]

I noticed that too! Lmao!

[@ZukoHalliwell]

Burton himself pointed that out in the DVD commentary. Lol

[@rubengabrielleonvilla2338]

In Hulk 2003 of Danny Elfman 🟢👍

[@LumièresETténèbres]

You got that on many movies, i noticed it on ‘the hateful eight’ with the intro, the tension comes to its paroxysm on ‘composed by Ennio Moricone’

[@boskostudios]

Just so people understand, the opening credit sequence is rarely completed by the time the composer begins work. A title sequence without dialogue requires an organic musical flow-through, which is greatly inspired by the shots the editor has selected. So, in this case, it's not too difficult to see why the big dramatic swell was appropriate for that particular shot. That said, there have been occasions where a composer has straight-up mickey moused their own screen credit. Cringey lol

[@mzivanovic677]

This will forever be my favorite movie opening. Foreboding and beautiful at the same time, and glorious music. Love it 🖤

[@ToastedCigar]

My favourite halloween movie. Burton's amazing visual eye and Elfman's fantastic score make this movie a pleasure to watch

[@dannydinosaur73]

Christopher Lee Martin Landau Michael Gough Richard Griffiths So many greats gone.....RIP.

[@zyzor]

With this corona virus quarantine I’m going to watch this again. One of my favorite movies of all time.

[@franklesher4459]

Good news. You can find it on Netflix

[@zyzor]

Frank Lesher thanks but I own it on blu ray

[@Powerhaus88]

@@franklesher4459 Netflix is cancer

[@annieobrien9783]

-My favorite part of the movie. Love the score, the woods, and those floating letters!

[@rahulmenon9530]

0:20 still gives me chills after all these years ❤

[@mattbernabe]

23 years later, this is still one of my top all-time favorite opening credits. Along with the opening scene....of course. This sequence completely sets the atmosphere of the film we're about to watch. It's perfect. This is definitely among Tim Burton's best. It's a masterpiece.

[@petersmithyy4556]

Can't believe it's been that long already, I was 12 and scared me so much

[@mattbernabe]

​@@petersmithyy4556I know, right. I was 11 when I saw it in the theater. Time flies.

[@ToastedCigar]

This is a very visually beautiful movie, even though it used to scare the shit out of me when I was young. :D

[@YTLawnGnome]

Well what do you expect?! Emmanuel Lubezski was the head of Photography

[@wcw2793]

It still scares the hell out of me.

[@jamlym4974]

This whole sequence gives me goosebumps and calls back some old memories relating to the story.

[@jex8542]

So many horror movies today could never touch this piece of art. Lately it's just *LOUD NOISE spooky mask close-up!*

[@troyandrew6154]

Good example is poltergeist 2015

[@jex8542]

​@Troy Andrew Ah I didn't see it. Lot of jump scares compared to the original or.. my memory is a little fuzzy on the originals.

[@jex8542]

If they had an intro like this to a well written mini series, good director, director of photography, pull out all the stops, I'd love it. But I bet it'd be hard to keep at atmosphere so foreboding without giving too much away.

[@janiedoe9821]

O M G, I remember Renting this Movie at a Local Blockbuster Video, I remember calling my Boyfriend Ben at the time, and I told him about the movie that I've rented, and If he would come over and watch it with me, and He said that he would, so about an hour later, Ben and I was in the family room of my house, we each had a bowl of Hot Popcorn and a Soda Pop, we started watching this movie, and It was amazing, from start to finish.

[@petersmithyy4556]

I wish they still made movies like this! 90s were great and sorely missed

[@goldenboyproductions2740]

Finally a film that acknowledges that Americans spoke with British accents in the 18th century.

[@fadelaelzalet8674]

Yes 🙌

[@JudoGeoff]

My understanding was that it wasn't really the received pronunciation that we think of today, but rather that English people spoke with something akin to an early "American" accent during the time before the U.S. was founded, and then the more posh or "proper" English accents we are familiar with today developed as a sort of class split strategy (i.e. a means for the bourgeoisie to distinguish themselves from the more "common" folk). That being said, it isn't as though an 18th century American would sound identical to one today. It just wouldn't sound identical to what we think of as a modern English accent either. It would be its own thing. I need to go back and find the articles I read on this, but I found the study of this pretty intriguing.

[@Fanible]

Is the idea that people believe Americans somehow developed a new accent as a means to separate themselves or something? The American accent of today is much closer to how old English sounded than the modern British accent is. British/Scottish accents changed a lot throughout the 1800s.

[@JudoGeoff]

@@Fanible it wasn't that Americans intentionally developed a certain way, but that the English did (at least in part). Americans seem to have developed over time in mostly unconscious ways, based on what I've seen, excepting perhaps things like the mid-Atlantic accent which was often an intentional product of trying to sound a certain way for commercial or societal reasons (think that early-mid 1900s "Hollywood" accent that many famous actors had but which seemed rather unrealistic... because it kind of was). But I'm not a linguist. I just pick up little bits of info and observations here and there.

[@NorceCodine]

People in the Hudson Valley were mostly Dutch immigrants, like the Roosevelts.

[@YTLawnGnome]

If it wasn't for Frankenweenie, Sleepy Hollow would be my number one Tim Burton film. It is one of the most beautiful films he ever directed. I am surprised it doesn't get enough credit.

[@kaysmith8992]

I agree, it should be up there with Edward Scissorhands, Pee Wee's Big Adventure and Batman

[@troyandrew6154]

​@@kaysmith8992 and beetlejuice

[@Anthony-ps8zq]

Très beau générique

[@jongon0848]

It's a shame we haven't gotten that many collaborations between Tim Burton & cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, they seem like a match made in Heaven with the way the cinematography & atmosphere looks in this film!

[@ArmandoGarcia-ci7el]

Yeah, very strange, maybe they don't like each other

[@bad2dabohn1992]

This is why Tim Burton is my 2 fav director after Spielberg, the man knows how to create a visually awesome movie, and coupled with Danny Elfman's scary yet symphonic score.....easily my fav movie of his

[@PLAYplaceprod.church]

Oh how I will never stop loving the hell out of any Elfman composed score for a Burton film.

[@jogymogy3691]

This might be his greatest score ever. Nightmare before Christmas is his best Musical though.

[@earthisnotflat308]

Say what you will about the plot. But the Visual and Soundtrack makes this movie for me. Oh and Christina Ricci is super hot as well. The atmosphere is perfect for Halloween season.

[@edgar22452]

She's very pretty

[@vaughnsantiago1]

This is one of my favorite openings to any other movie ever.

[@johnathanmontoya6071]

Man I love this movie! I used to watch it over and over again when I was like 9 lol. I haven't seen it in a long time but watching this sequence it's like it's even better than I remembered. The incredible atmospheric score has to be some of Danny Elfman's best work.

[@leelila8379]

Me too 😊

[@striderfootyy5046]

The opening scenes for this film are so good and the soundtrack is brilliant. There are subtle brilliances in all the art and direction.

[@ki-pattao9030]

Christopher Lee RIP He is our legendary movie artor he ever live.

[@mikeshirleyforever]

After Mars Attacks, this was such a brilliant return to form for Burton IMO. I don't think the films he has directed since has surpassed this in terms of his style. It still looks amazing and not heavily saturated in CGI (Except the regeneration of the Horseman's head comes to mind); Something I distinctly remember him saying that he didn't like using but has used far too often in his later works.

[@fear5735]

Fun fact: The original director started development in 1993. He wanted to make it a pointless slasher horror film. He was demoted all the way down to prosthetic makeup designer. Burton was given Director in 1998.

[@artmienz3077]

Thank god, this is better. Although it still retains some slasher elements

[@troyandrew6154]

It was Kevin yagher

[@mattbernabe]

Thank god for Burton! This turned into one of his masterpieces.

[@masterofallgoons]

That's pretty unfair, and pretty inaccurate... Kevin Yagher is still credited as a writer on this movie (along with Andrew Kevin Walker) and came up with the concept of how to change the story from the original text and everything... also saying he was 'demoted' isn't really accurate or fair either. He was trying to get it made for a long time and could only really get the kind of budget it needed when an A-list director was attached .. he never wanted to make a 'pointless' movie, he was just tying to make a period piece slasher with a more serious tone and the opportunity for a lot of makeup effects.. maybe his version of the movie would have been good, you just don't know ... Burton came along, got playwright Tom Stoppard to do a polish of the script and brought his sensibility to it.. I absolutely love this movie and I'm sure this version is better than the Kevin Yagher version would have been, but just because this turned out great doesn't really mean anyone needs to shit all over Kevin Yagher

[@seanmccarthy6992]

This is just an awesome movie but you have to watch it during Halloween I think it just fits the vibe of the movie better during Halloween

[@jamlym4974]

This kind of calls back the old Dracula films with someone riding a carriage up to Dracula's castle and there are wolves.

[@obscureentertainment8303]

And it's perfect that Dracula himself makes a cameo in the movie.

[@ItachiUchiha-lr3yr]

Dracula was Francis Ford copola & he produced this film aswell.

[@morganbjorkmanbjorling1679]

I actually had play Sleepy Hollow as a theater once! Me and my group played our own version of this story. And I was playing Ichabod Crane!

[@rahulmenon9530]

That sounds amazing. Can you tell a little more about it

[@BuckDanny2314]

So basically, it's the story of Jack Sparrow who goes in a town to meet Dumbledore, Uncle Vernon, Rita Skeeter, Emperor Palpatine, Johnny Rico and Wednesday who are threatened by a headless Max Zorin. What a mess...

[@theolocalloner9404]

it's a good horror movie with beautiful visual style and music.

[@BuckDanny2314]

It is also that, I agree.

[@troyandrew7443]

and don't forget Alfred the butler

[@santiagonavarro125]

Sent to Sleepy Hollow by Count Dooku to investigate unusual murders carried out by Darth Maul.

[@TheAngelOfDeath01]

Exactly. And in the end, it's the Witch who did it all. The butler surely will be pleased!

[@jamlym4974]

1:08 The music is so eerie.

[@crust8016]

2:03 and 4:12, what awesome shots

[@kamdan2011]

2:21 That sound effect was also in Pee-wee’a Big Adventure.

[@kaysmith8992]

This was the last Tim Burton film I still found genuinely brooding and strange. It's not even an amazing film yet I watch it again and again.

[@veenamnair8467]

Location of this film is amazing..... super precious moments.....the mind full of peace

[@sketcharmstrong8491]

Burton, Depp, Elfman....how can you go wrong? And Andrew Kevin Walker and Coppola to boot.

[@troyandrew6154]

And Kevin yagher

[@spysoldier8583]

1:25 is wow

[@nightdrv]

Honestly some of the best casting and theatrical scoring in the last 30 years

[@boingokky]

0:32 was always my favorite place for some weird reason.

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

Great movie to watch in the autumn.

[@eduvilte4913]

La atmosfera de Christopher Walken. Que tétrico.

[@jamlym4974]

It's amazing how this movie had so many actors who are most well known for movies that they starred in after this came out.

[@jamesbarlow3640]

3:28 Narrator: The people of the village had not known of Ichabod, because to them, he was a stranger.

[@anastasiasoto389]

My favorite movie since high schllo

[@TheWelchProductions]

The music from 0:09 to 0:21 gives off a Halloween vibe

[@jamesbarlow3640]

0:11 Narrator: If we could but journey back to that remote period in American history when the city of Manhattan was but a market town, we would discover in one of the spacious coves which indent the shores of the Hudson, the little village of Tarrytown. And just beyond, nestled deep in the low, rolling hills, a sequestered glen. It’s a quiet, peaceful place, and yet somehow foreboding. It abounds in haunted spots, twilight tales, and local superstitions. The best known story, however, concerns a constable whose scientific methods were mocked. A most unusual man, tall and exceedingly lank. Some might mistake him for a scarecrow aloof from the cornfield.

[@ryanmccullion4492]

Can we all just say Danny Elfman is an incredible musical composer. This score is phenomenal. Especially 2:00

[@alejandrocastillo9819]

Simply a masterpiece

[@VirginRose]

That intro music = goosebumps all over

[@LumièresETténèbres]

One of the greatest of Burton/Elfman/Heinricks

[@jamesbarlow3640]

1:06 Narrator: Yes, decapitations. Not a very light subject. That is why this young man was sent over to the tranquil little village of Sleepy Hollow, to investigate the reports.

[@misaeldroguettgomez2465]

Great Movie, Tim Burton Is My Favorite Director 👍

[@evanmiller2472]

This is the version i grew up with. And its much better than the original story.

[@TheWelchProductions]

I like how the text reflects in the water at 0:09

[@jamlym4974]

It just feels like there’s a curse hanging over the place.

[@carlosalves9076]

I love this movie

[@Eddie.Munson69]

I love this neighborhood if I lived and sleepy hollow I had trick or treat and all the time

[@skar8009]

0:08 mom loves that cloudy lake shot

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

It's actually the Hudson river.

[@alexedits9097]

this scares the hell out of me every time i watch it but i still love it and its my comfort film that makes no sense same is with sweeney todd i sometimes get scared but its also a comfort film of mine im different i guess

[@janiedoe9821]

Don't you ever wish that Actress Christina Ricci would stay young forever?.

[@VenusDoomInOurBlood]

Janie Doe same with Depp! Can't believe the differences nowadays

[@edgar22452]

Meeeee

[@stevesibaja3123]

2020 Anyone

[@stitcho7563]

Love this movie.

[@brycewakefield6565]

I love the music video

[@jamesbarlow3640]

4:16 Narrator: That chateau over there is the home of the Van Tassel family.

[@ethanm0591]

I’m just here to do music homework

[@JeuneR_prod]

me too

[@jayanimations5552]

same

[@RoxanaGark]

I think this is the last film that saw to Casper Van Dien acting.

[@thethiefking]

So, let me get this straight. Count Dooku sends Edward to see Emperor Palpatine in Sleepy Hollow to stop Darth Maul from killing people. Okay, I think I got it.

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

Yeah. Darth Maul also teamed up with Max Zorin from James Bond.

[@aaronying4989]

Ugh that’s so great!!!!

[@dollikhaled1822]

I love that movie it's smell like hammer horror productions

[@petersmithyy4556]

This movie got me into the old hammer films from the 60s

[@allies7184]

I wish this film could have been made entirely in the actual Sleepyhollow NY, to make it more authentic, but doing it in the UK was the next best thing.

[@tonytafoya6217]

Tim Burton is the master of gloomy sets and atmospheres.

[@Starzboi]

2:00 i love this part

[@NikaljeHarshal]

Need a looped version of 0:21 to 0:30. This is magnificent.

[@NikaljeHarshal]

The true game is in its buildup. Beautiful.

[@aaryashukla8404]

Amazing

[@matthewjimenez655]

3:21 not welcoming are they?

[@abelle0992]

How i can watch full film plz tell me....🥺🥺

[@whack3585]

LOL, DUC BAO WAS HERE, LOLOLOLOLOL.

[@flushfries5633]

The music here is different than the soundtrack version.

[@chadking1938]

I know. Mostly soundtracks are very different from movies until a certain music company will release a special edition to make it close accurate score sound from the film. I'm hoping either lalaland, intrada or varese sarabnde will do that.

[@caikelm5766]

Omg I thought I was the only one who noticed or even cared about that

[@Christineog11]

Isn’t it amazing that one slight change in the cue can change the whole thing when it comes to movie scores? I will always prefer this version to the cd. The beginning when you see him leaving in the carriage is sooo beautiful!!

[@flushfries5633]

@bandicooty Really?

[@emmanuelhaywood9677]

what's up

[@ItachiUchiha-lr3yr]

What type of film ever starts like this nowadays, its just marvel movie after marvel movie. Dutch farming community Hudson Valley New York.

[@lordaaron2109]

very good video, inspired me to be a punjabi kurri 666

[@JDHDify]

+Aaron Panesar I agree, I really like ur mlg trampolining of Bobby Huart. Can I have an autograph please?

[@lordaaron2109]

English (sorry for my bad hello)

[@maxime_audio]

Slt aux 4e6

[@iROChakri]

Best horror movie!

[@road3547]

Danny Elfman man.

[@Powerhaus88]

Shouldn't the Hudson be way wider?

[@noeliakitsuneburns1572]

OMG! Ichabod💞💞💞😆💖

[@everettloucks3304]

Is Johnny Depp the voice for Jack Skellington

[@MCSwinehart]

no, Chris Sarandon

[@hmltwin]

Am I the only confused by the little map in his journal? Like, shouldn't New York be on the other side of the Hudson River or is it just my bad memory?

[@hmltwin]

Nope... just checked and the map - though simplified - is correct.

[@anna7465]

Ian McDiarmid = passionate kisser. 💋🤤🥴. I have to admit… I’m rather jelly of that actress. 😂. I’m surprised no other gals, like myself, have mentioned it! 😂😛😛

[@ArashHaqqany]

🌻👍🏻✨️

[@elbanana4432]

THE FATHER OF THE KID IN 3:48 DIE

[@Leopoldf]

👁️👄✨

[@billyhair8665]

This is boring

[@GJRoya]

Great - what we all wanted: a piss poor quality version of this.