Sleepy Hollow High

YIKES !! This was one awful movie !! How in the world did this movie ever get distributed? The movie was terribly written. The acting was bad. The camera looks like it was out of focus; even when the camera is on a tripod. It sort of looks like a rip off of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and SLEEPY HOLLOW (which was an excellent film). This was a blatant attempt to make a quick buck, if I ever saw one. I say quick because this looks like it was made quickly;the lighting is bad and looks like they didn't use any kind of lights (except the flashlights and firelight) and the story gets boring from the getgo. Its a typical horror movie, even though this one isn't scary: it's got a bimbo, a toughguy, a square guy and a the adult. Not very original and not very entertaining. If you see it on the shelf, keep on walking.......

I don't think this film was made to bring in the big bucks and that makes me want to support it. Still, if it was made for the love of horror why tack on an ending that movie fans are guaranteed to hate. I won't give them away, but the two finishing twists are painful.

The first twist is a cliched and universally hated finishing move followed by a final shot and revelation that makes no sense in conjunction with the first. Even if the shot did fit logically it would not be much of a shocker.

The low production values did not bother me. I thought the woods setting was beautiful. For one dollar I at least got a few kicks out of the video, but the end kind of made me mad.

A headless horseman is on the loose at a small town beheading people. A group of misfits doing community service for bad behavior at school fall victim to the horseman. At times creepy and original (especially the ending), but poorly acted, directed, and edited. The picture quality is very grainy, but actually works in favor of the film. Intriguing film with an intriguing premise would have been better served with a bigger budget.

Rated R; Graphic Violence.

Where should I start. I bought this movie on VHS last halloween. I am a big fan of cheesy horror films and figured it would be entertaining. This seems like a poor quality student project. First, there is the actual visual quality. Some posts talk about tis being a 16mm film. I seem to doubt that. The quality looks like 3rd or 4th generation VHS. The colors are so faded that it at times seems almost black and white. The movie starts out bad and just doesn't get any better. It starts with a Jogger running through the woods, who stops in the middle of the woods to eat a candy bar. What kind of exercise fanatic stops to eat a candy bar? Anyway, she gets chased and killed with such great lines like "oh please don't kill me." Definately not an academy award winner. Then a credit sequence that has nothing to do with the movie. I don't want to ruin the movie for anyone that wants to waste an hour or so to watch it. It starts out bad a doesn't get any better. The poor casting consists of people that not only can't act but are totally wrong for the role. A 40 year old guy plays a high school student. terrible. some of the other high school students are also way to old to play the role. For some reason the film maker thought it would be cool to give the characters one letter names, J, Z, Mr E(trying to be clever. mystery) The dialogue is trite and meaningless. It doesn't make sense half the time. The lighting is something out of a low budget porn movie. If it is night a person would not be completely illuminated from the front. The acting is horrible and the directing and editing didn't seemed to have helped. The establishing shots shown over and over again are terrible and obviously nothing more than filler to get it to feature length. I would say that watching it is a must for film students. It was very inspirational in the fact that a movie made so poorly could get such a large distribution. I have shown it to someone before one of my films. It is so poorly done, it makes my films look like the were made by Spielberg. But I did buy it and I don't feel bad about it because even though it isn't good by any means it is an example of how indie films can get seen no matter how good or bad they are. The rating on the box was funny, It said 3 and a half stars. ( what it didn't say was that it was out of ten and not four.) Not as good as a Ed Wood Movie.

Whoa, this is one of the WORST movies I have EVER seen! The packaging for the film is better than the film itself. My girlfriend and I watched it this past weekend, and we only continued to watch it in the hopes that it would get better...it didn't...

The picture quality is poor; it looks like it was shot on video and transferred to film. The lighting is not great, which makes it harder to read the actors' facial expressions. The acting itself was cheesy, but I guess it's acceptable for "yet another" teenage horror flick. The sound was a huge problem: sometimes you have to rewind the video because the sound is unclear and/or muffled.

It holds no real merit of it's own; trying to ride on the coattails of "Sleepy Hollow." Don't bother with this one.