Johnny DeppвЂ™s weird-but-not- Charlie-and-the-Chocolate-Factory-weird performance as Ichabod Crane adds a strong dash of character to the piece, which is essentially a detective story with a fairy tale spin. This thing is violent and dripping with blood, but Burton wields his brush artfully, keeping this story of a literally headless horseman from becoming offputtingly grotesque. The critically acclaimed drama stretched Burton as a storyteller and netted a pair of Academy Award wins, but BurtonвЂ™s follow-up-the delightfully campy Mars Attacks!-floundered at the box office and received mixed reviews from critics.ДЇour years later, Burton returned with as close to a straight-up horror film as heвЂ™s ever made: Sleepy Hollow. After taking the вЂњweirdвЂќ factor to the extreme in Batman Returns, Burton helped conceive and produce the aforementioned The Nightmare Before Christmas and then embarked on a passion project of sorts, 1994вЂ™s Ed Wood. Released in 1999, the film marked a return to form of sorts for the Edward Scissorhands filmmaker.

BurtonвЂ™s loose adaptation of the Washington Irving tale is a delightfully atmospheric, scary, and downright gorgeous piece of filmmaking, and itвЂ™s high time Sleepy Hollow got its due. But thereвЂ™s another Burton film thatвЂ™s just as fitting for the spooky fall season and also happens to be a pretty impeccable piece of filmmaking: Sleepy Hollow. When the Halloween season rolls around, the Tim Burton film that most people seem to discuss and watch the most is The Nightmare Before Christmas (which, for the record, Burton only produced- Henry Selick directed).

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