Saturday, October 3, 2015

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980)


Schick Sunn Classics
Directed by Henning Schellerup
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
(VHS, VCI Home Video)

Wiry new schoolteacher Ichabod Crane, a well-cast Jeff Goldblum, falls for beauty Meg Foster while brushing off the romantic overtures of the daughter of his boss. Local tough guy Dick Butkus also has his eyes on Foster and when threats don't work he resorts to trying to scare him off with nighttime rides disguised as a headless horseman. Nicely shot on snowy Utah locations standing in for New York, but the slapstick comedy relief and made-for-tv acting ruin any pretense of scares.

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