Sleepy Hollow

When Ichabod is in the carriage and about to leave town, he is playing with the cardinal/cage optical illusion toy.

When the camera faces him the image of the cardinal and cage are right-side up, but when shown from Ichabod's view they still appear right-side up.

One of these two shots should show the images upside down.

Ichabod's hairstyle when he is in bed after being wounded by the horseman.

At the end of the movie Crane says, "The Bronx is up, the Battery's down, and home is this way.

" What's now the Borough of the Bronx did not exist as a community in 1799, but the Bronx River, which it was named after, did.

Crane is referring to two landmarks, not one landmark and one district as in the 20th century song.

Ichabod, Katrina, and young Masbath bar the door of the windmill with a shovel and put two sacks on the left side of the door and one on the right.

However, when Ichabod says "To the roof; I've got an idea!", there is only one sack on the left side of the door.

When the horseman cuts the shovel with his sword, there are again two sacks on the left side of the door.

The closing credits thank "The Town of Hertsfordshire".

The correct spelling is Hertfordshire (commonly abbreviated to "Herts"), and Hertfordshire is not a town, it is a county.

There is a town but it is just called Hertford.

At Van Tassel's party, carved pumpkins decorate the mantelpiece.

The tradition of carving pumpkins was not commplace in America until the great Irish immigrations of the 1840s.

When Ichabod Crane is playing the bird in the cage game while in the carriage, he removes it from his pocket twice.

Once when he first gets in the carriage then again after he looks out of the window at the men removing the woman's body from the back of the wagon.

In 1799, Ichabod declares "The millennium is upon us.

In a few months we will be living in the 19th century.

" The millennium - the start of a thousand calendar years - was, of course, more than 200 years away.

(Also, the 19th century began in 1801, not 1800.

) At the end of the movie, Lady Van Tassel has a scar on her left hand from when she cut herself.

After she is knocked out by Ichabod's helper, and then wakes up in the horseman's lap, we see that her left hand bears no scar.

Van Garret is not the only victim who bleeds after having his head chopped off by the Horseman.

Blood can clearly be seen on Van Garrett's son's collar.

In the opening scene, when the little boy is lighting his candle to see the figures on the wall, he sits very close to the candle.

So the light from the figures should be visible not only on the wall behind the boy, but also on the boy himself.

This does not happen.

When the carriage brings Ichabod between New York City and Sleepy Hollow, it appears to be on the left side of the river.

However, Sleepy Hollow is located on the right side of the Hudson relative to New York City, just above the Tappan Zee.

No other similar river exists that would be a logical replacement.

In the scene where Ichabod is brainstorming the connections between various events and writing them in his notebook, the individual words that are shown being written are in a different handwriting than when they appear all together on the page.

When Icabod cuts up the tree and is splatted with blood, it is on his face and down his neck and white shirt.

During the cutting of the tree, the blood splatter on his face changes position with each shot.

While digging the hole and following the headless horseman, there is no evidence of blood on his shirt.

When Ichabod is investigating Jonathon's Masbath's death, he says to Phillips "and the head?" Phillipse replies "Taken" but in the gap preceding his answer you can see his lips uttering several other words but the sound has been removed When Ichabod Crane embraces Katrina van Tassel, the sleeve on his arm is pulled back slightly, revealing Depp's modern metal watch.

When the Headless Horseman is about to kiss Catrina's stepmother, you can see his actual teeth behind the filed ones.

Christopher Walken's teeth are blacked out and their outline is visible against his tongue during the closeup of his face.

The costumes worn by Katrina and Lady Van Tassel were from an earlier decade, circa 1785.

Colleen Atwood, the costume designer, stated she wanted the costumes to reflect the period 1794.

Atwood's rationale was that the residents of Sleepy Hollow were five years behind the latest fashion trends.

By 1794, women's dresses were being to reflect the beginning of the Regency periodcloser to the body with a higher waist and much less elaborate than those displayed in the film.

The small toy (with string and the picture of cardinal and a cage) that Ichabod plays with in the film is known as a thaumatrope.

The thaumatrope was not invented until 1826, several years after the events in the story.

Ichabod deduces that the headless body in one of the coffins he rips open cannot be that of Lady Van Tassel because the cut in the palm of the hand was done after death, without, he says, any bleeding.

Later, when we see, in flashback, the cut being made, it bleeds profusely.

When Ichabod unearths the Horseman, the earth is neatly removed from the grave and from underneath the bones.

Ichabod Crane performed autopsies on cadavers and these bleed in spurts.

When a person dies, all the blood inside the body quickly coagulates.

In the movie, they talk about embalming, but the embalming process began to make to the corpses in the 1860s.

The capital of New York state moved to Albany in 1797.

After that date, any investigator would have come from Albany, not New York City; although as justice at that time was administered locally, it is unlikely that any "state" investigator would be sent, anywhere.

It is stated that the horseman filed his teeth; and this is shown repeatedly.

However, his skull does not have filed teeth.

The scene where Baltus Van Tassel is explaining to Ichabod about the headless horseman, Baltus is in front of the fireplace, and then when shown again he's over to the right by the chair where Majestry Phillips is in, and then he is shown again by the fireplace, and then shown again he's back by the chair.

At the very start of the film Peter Van Garret ('Martin Landau' (qv)) in the carriage is looking forward in the direction of travel.

He looks out of his left-hand window at a scarecrow.

The camera tracks the scarecrow as the carriage goes past.

The tracking shot is not correct.

It is a tracking shot as filmed from the right hand side of the carriage, but Peter was looking out the left hand window.

The characters incorrectly refer to the Headless Horseman as the "Hess-i-an".

The correct pronunciation of Hessian, which was a German mercenary from the region of Hesse who aided the British in the Revolutionary War, is "Heh-shen".

Leaving the coach in New York at the end of the movie, Ichabod makes reference to the new century.

As it would be 1800, the "new" century would not start for another year.

The belief in common society that a century starts with the '00 year is a very late twentieth century error.

When Thomas Killian is spinning the lantern with cut out shapes, the lit up shapes on the walls are spinning in the other direction.

The New York Police Department of which Ichabod Crane is a constable, was not founded until 1844, and even if he did function as a city watchman before 1844, the dark blue uniform was not issued until 1853.

When the horseman attacks the Killians, he corners the wife Beth after killing the husband.

Beth was portrayed by Claire Skinner, who is a natural redhead.

For the movie, her hair was styled in curls.

However, after the horsemen decapitates her character, the prop used for her decapitated head had blond, straight hair.

This might be the easiest review I've ever written. It practically writes ITSELF, come to think of it.

~Spoiler~Sleepy Hollow marks the third time Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have worked together and I have to say it's their best collaboration. Burton's take on the the Washington Irving classic is a terrific slice of American Gothic.

I've just watched this movie last week and it's so fantastic. In the first time i looked at the DVD and thought it would be a normal entertaining movie but after 30 minutes, I was so scared.

I'm writing this after seeing the pilot, and at least for a beginning it's nice. You like the characters, most of what's going on makes sense, and the characters are not making too many irrational decisions.

Just watched this because I saw it on a torrent list (along with 23,000 others in the past two hours). So I downloaded to check it out.

****ORIGINAL REVIEW****7/10**** This is a non-spoiler review of the pilot episode."Sleepy Hollow" is a modern depiction of the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", a short story by American author Washington Irving.

My first thought when I heard about FOX's new show, "Sleepy Hollow" was, how are they going to make this an entire series? We've seen this story done before in Tim Burton's film version with Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken, which managed a respectable take on the urban legend from the New York town.

I just watched the pilot of Sleepy Hollow and was pleasantly surprised. I really enjoyed it, I like the modern reboot of this classic story.

Its witty , funny, fast paced and the action scenes are quite impressive and it does share the same pace and chemistry as the Tim Burton movie. It seems to be going the way of the X files complete with their own version of Deputy director Skinner ( Orlando Jones) and a plot leaning toward a conspiracy that not only threatens the town of Sleepy Hollow but the entire world.