Why Sleepy Hollow Is A PERFECT Halloween Movie | Video Essay

[@FilmSpeak]

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[@tylervan01]

Great video. Tim Burton has a lot of great movie but my favourite would probably be Big Fish

[@FilmSpeak]

Thanks so much! Big Fish is SO good.

[@alexbailey5211]

This is one of my all time favorite tim burton films too. It's a halloween must every year. Thanks for making this great video essay.

[@MattDraper]

What a fantastic deep dive! I think this made me appreciate Sleepy Hollow way more than I did before.

[@FilmSpeak]

Thank Matt! Yeah, maybe it’s the times we’re living in, but rewatching the film I sorta had an epiphany and was like “huh...okay now there’s something interesting.” Appreciate the support as always 🙏🏻

[@bigkj2.027]

Gotta see it

[@MrSpengman]

I've always loved Sleepy Hollow but I don't think I ever fully appreciated its message. Thank you.

[@FilmSpeak]

Thanks for watching and the kind words!

[@jaysondowney7403]

Any film with Christopher walkin unable to speak and has sharp teeth why the only word he is able to say is ahhh and nyaahhh is perfection

[@ImpressionBlend]

Griffin, this was an AMAZING essay! Absolutely loved your take on "Sleepy Hollow" (and Tim Burton's work as a whole), and the way you approached this. Beautifully done, so much to think about here, I really hope you do more essays in the future!

[@FilmSpeak]

You’re too kind! Thank you so much. Yeah I’m super proud of how this one turned out. I think I’m going to make and effort to do one essay a month at least. I just have too much fun with these!

[@MrPooleish]

Really was not expecting that to go where it did. Can't wait to see more analysis from you.

[@FilmSpeak]

Thank you so much! I’m really excited for my next one. Hope you enjoy it!

[@jacktaylor6155]

I like the way this guy writes. Your set up into your video was great. I really admire how you got that jolt from using Frankenwienie as a vamp back to Sleepy Hollow

[@FilmSpeak]

Thank you so much! That’s honestly one of the highest compliments I could get so thank you 🙏🏻

[@hinkhall5291]

I honestly don’t like most horror movies but I love, love, love this one.

[@Dual_Singularity]

Perfect timing! I just did a presentation on why sleepy hollow an enduring tale for my folklore class for college!I included this in the presentation and I cannot wait to give this a watch!

[@FilmSpeak]

Amazing! That’s awesome

[@marksharp3185]

What is so FANTASTIC about Sleepy Hollow is that it is (as you mentioned) a love letter to Hammer Horror Film! Every moment in the film hits every beat that Hammer Horror has to offer. That is want romanced me to this film in the first place and exposed me to Hammer!

[@blackphillipppp]

i absolutely LOVE Sleepy Hollow, for me it's the best Halloween movie!

[@okidokicreations1075]

A Sleepy Hollow sculpture kzbin.infoFJXDXEbzlZg?si=wjVnUmdr4dHMQcLN

[@KingOrest]

One of my favourite Burton/Depp films.

[@jonhinson5701]

One of my very Halloween movies. Gothic horror is the best. I do agree it is underrated in every way.

[@BigWJE]

Great review, dont know wether i agree with the last segment,due to recent events.Non the less, what am excellent review dude

[@cosa_oscura]

Brilliant!!! ❤❤❤❤ I just recently saw a negative review of Sleepy Hollow and I needed this deep dive as a palate cleanser.

[@nikolugo]

I really like what you did you show me a different perspective on Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow and I think you did a fantastic job

[@SheriffValentine]

Brilliant! I appreciate the analysis and this movie even more so now. I wish your video kept going on longer I enjoyed this video essay so much.

[@bryanschmidt7336]

The forensic bent of Depp was the key to this movie's charm. plus Ricci

[@RebecaLawrence-w6e]

Tim Burton is a one of a kind person. Whimsical kind of movies.Batman and Edward scissorhands. To name a few. Sleepy Hollow is a good movie. Nice seeing Ichabod Crane get Katrina. Get out of the mass alive. Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken. A long with other good actors and actresses. Made a good story.

[@cjscosplays2899]

Brilliant review mate! Sleepy Hollow is one of my favorite films! I just started my Ichabod Crane cosplay on my channel. Thanks for the great video! 🎃

[@NickSchoenfeld]

Amazing perspective and review of the film and the Tim Burton history. The best one, in my opinion.

[@dosmart]

Also, it is my favourite Burton film

[@FilmSpeak]

It's definitely a top 3 or 5 for me as well. Super underrated in terms of his filmography!

[@SkepticalChris]

A little bit of Star Wars Trivia about this movie, that it features all 3 Sith Lords from the Prequel Movies: Ian McDiarmid who plays Doctor Lancaster also played Darth Sidious Christopher Lee who plays the City Judge also played Count Dooku aka Darth Tyrannus Ray Park who plays the Headless Horseman also played

[@salmonsandwich3183]

where did you get that Dr. No poster? looks pretty awesome

[@johnathanmaygarden6022]

I respect Tim Burton because he's not ruled by fear or paranoia by this country trouble and misfortune unlike other film makers and show runners

[@menslady125eif2590]

Is it weird that I have the world's biggest crush on the Hessian AND on Christopher Walken?

[@Noodlemonkey7]

Brilliant. Same your channel is completely underrated!

[@8machines62]

Thank you! This was great!

[@sa1994kimo]

Love this, Griffin. Please make more like this!

[@FilmSpeak]

Definitely planning on it! I don’t do these nearly enough.

[@TomChopperGuitar]

Yeah… trust the science. That aged well…

[@AndrewReevesArt]

Perfect Halloween film. 🎃

[@nickl9317]

Good stuff except you keep saying Burton-this film, while wearing his trademark style all over, wasn’t written by him. All these themes are the work of the screenwriter, who also wrote Seven, which share common themes although they aren’t developed to the same conclusion

[@princebloodgrave8097]

It's in my top 5 all time favorite movies, ever.

[@BABYMILO19]

I love this film

[@derekseven1647]

It is a perfect Halloween film and I saw it the first day it opened and loved it ever since then it's one of my top three Tim Burton movies along with Edward and Edward scissorhands.

[@crfstewarje]

Great video.

[@FilmSpeak]

Thanks!

[@CatholicK5357]

I did very much like the movie, and many of his films. However, I find Tim Burton's themes to be over-simplistic on certain matters. He sees magic and science as progressive and always portrays the "normals" as backwards and superstitious. In some sense, as an outsider himself he is making normal people the outcasts. The problem with that is it denies the fact that people are people. Scientists are often the bad guys, and religious people are often the heroes. And that brings up the pet peeve I have with him. He portrays religion as only superstition and backwards. That seems strange considering that witchcraft is based hugely on superstition. It also ignores the fact that there are reasons why witchcraft was ostracized in olden times. Witches were not just seen as outcasts because they didn't fit into the norm, but because they were seen as dangerous to society and individuals. They were often people who created poisons to sell to people to murder their spouses, or would take money to put spells on people (whether real or fake). Witchcraft in essence was considered a sort of supernatural manipulation and against order. And science is not neutral. It is only good if used by good people. Neutral is just a way of saying it has the potential to be used for evil. But that's the thing. Everything has the potential to be bad, which means that everything should be controlled by the good. And that is the point of civilization. Take that away and you have chaos, sort of where we seem to be heading now. That is why, although I appreciate the eccentricity and visuals of Tim Burton's work, I find his themes to be quite hypocritical and one sided.

[@toyandcollectionnerd]

It's one of his greatest films ever made.

[@Rey20171]

Totally agree here

[@CatholicK5357]

Not everyone agrees on what progress is. Christendom was progress compared to the pagan world beforehand. And now society wishes to go back to pagan ideas and abandon the Christian social order. Is change always good or is it sometimes bad? If not everyone has the same goals of progress and what we are progressing towards or regressing towards, then it will not end well. It is not just people being stuck in their old ways. It is rather that those who wish to keep the old ways believe in the old ways. Yes, some only for selfish reasons want this. But those who say they want progress often have selfish reasons as well.

[@dosmart]

Dr. Palpatine...

[@MetalHeadbanger7]

By the way you are speaking, it sounds like society needs to collapse in order to progress to a better future.

[@mrbungle3310]

In a way it does ... because nothing will change this way,what needs to collapse is goverment as it is,it just doesn't work because same people win technically

[@chaddelk3605]

I do like the film, but to say that the story is a metaphor for society to reject so-called old ideas/traditions and embrace science as a way of achieving enlightenment! Perhaps that was Tim Burton's intention when it came to making the film, but take a good look around, and you will see that Tim Burton's optimism for the future was sorely too optimistic. We are more divided as a society in 2022 than we were in 1999, and that is not the fault of what some would call antiquated ideas/traditions. I don't believe that being religious and having a scientific mind is a clash of ideas. As far as science goes? In this day and age, society would have us ignore basic scientific facts to suit its own narrative. I wouldn't call that an enlightened society, I would call that a society of degenerates.

[@MirrorMonolith]

The irony is that the “party of science” deems itself holier than thou.

[@Yo1297]

@@MirrorMonolith what science are you referring to?

[@lacolem1]

Underrated

[@gregorykollarus8190]

People always talk about hammer films when it comes to this film I think it’s more of a Mario Bava film

[@andykenny4648]

Absolutely brilliant movie horribly underrated

[@MovieEnforcer]

Not gonna Tim Burton's and Night of The Headless Horseman are the only versions I like. Which is ironic given that they both came out in 1999. Here's Night of The Headless Horseman in case you're wondering: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnerpGBulsiFsNE

[@jacobdenton6065]

Tim Burtons a genius stupid Warner brothers didn’t respect him

[@saraadam6820]

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[@robj577]

I don't think he answered why its a perfect Halloween movie at all, but good analysis lol

[@gallery7596]

That's the most scholarly review I've ever heard of "Sleepy Hollow." I'm just going to be shallow and say that Christina Richie seemed a little too young- and too washed with the blonde eyebrows- to play Katrina. Also, I am partial to Irving's original approach to the story in which the truth or falseness concerning the horseman's existence (not to mention the fate of Ichabod) is left open to speculation. Making the supernatural aspect of the story real just felt like a bit of a disservice to Irving's classic, but clearly that's just not what Burton was going for, and as director that was his right. Good movie with brilliant art direction, but I still prefer the animated Disney classic.

[@TheHouseAlwaysWins20]

Jeffrey Jones is the most disturbing thing in the movie

[@Spaceball20]

Looks like you may need to update the ending to Biden when talking about inept leaders

[@dennisduncan7561]

You want inept leaders I suggest you look to your orange toddler and your incompetent repugs junior.

[@MrGavinmccolgan]

Hows that liberal progress looking now ???

[@dennisduncan7561]

And what has conservatism done to improve things junior?

[@MirrorMonolith]

“Presentism”, to use present-day attitudes and values to condescend to views and people of past eras, is frankly arrogant and undermines your essay. Even worse to pretend like half the population today is of the same mindset as the wild superstition portrayed in the film. It’s disingenuous to the actual values of liberalism, which doesn’t fall into the trap of tribalism like you’re doing. It’s no mystery that Burton is a liberal with a chip on his shoulder about religion and conservative generations, but Burton is smart enough to give everyone their due and to frame complex characters across the political spectrum. The ultra liberal bias you’re pushing that heralds itself as the champion of progress and knows best for everyone is ironically… regressive. You offered nothing in your critique that wasn’t already obvious upon viewing the movie and you projected more of your own political hangups than analyzed the ones actually in the film. I’ll agree Sleepy Hollow is the PERFECT Halloween movie, but for reasons that have to do with fun and aesthetics. Why do film critics act like they’re all Arthur Miller?

[@itskitty808]

Sleepy Hollow is the perfect Halloween film because its gothic aesthetic and feel perfectly captures the spirit of Halloween. I do agree that this video doesn't explain why this is a perfect Halloween movie. It seems like it was made to vent the creator's politics hangs ups.

[@dennisduncan7561]

His critique was fine. I don't think it was overbearing and didn't find his analysis ultra liberal. Many of his points are quite valid. Demonstrating how Ichabod relies on science and reason is a part of being progressive. Should he have just ignored this element?

[@joegrennon]

The book was great...the movie sucked. Pap for the weak-minded.

[@filmlover123]

Sadly, this otherwise insightful video fell prey to its very criticism. Openly biased ideology against one politician and making the very common mistake of seeming to argue for a good cause (climate change concern, etc) while displaying zero probing understanding of the very manipulation by those in power when it comes to distorting through media the deeper causes and realities behind those concerns. "Keep opening your minds to new ideologies and science, but don't think for yourselves and point out flaws in BOTH parties or believe science that challenges the established narrative."

[@hollabigT]

Had me until the ending...your liberalism clouds your judgement of current times.

[@jeffreyschueler2223]

wait, you don't think Trump is incompetent? like seriously? you don't have to be liberal to see what a buffoon that man is.

[@MirrorMonolith]

Agreed.

[@AWlpsSHOW36]

Conservatism can do the same thing.

[@jonhinson5701]

One of the reasons I subscribed. Liberalism will save our democracy. How is defending science and criticizing ignorance and narrow mindedness liberal?

[@themidnighttavern6784]

​@@jonhinson5701It's because both sides think they're the enlightened ones. Liberals think they're right, conservatives think they're right, both of them are deluded in thinking the other side is the cause of all their problems. The reality is, both sides are made up of essentially the same people, who, lacking in any sort of self awareness, think they're the exact opposite of those they claim to hate. It is only by shaking off the shackles of both parties, that we'll be able to improve this county. Those who commit to one party or the other are destroying this country.

[@theangrygamer6427]

Great movie with a review that was ruined by a progressive lefty