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In the city of the Sleepy Hollow, a descendant of Ichabod Crane is hunted by the Headless Horseman in the Halloween night.

This silly movie is a reasonable slash movie. There are some good special effects, and the big secret to have a good time is to shut down the brain and do not think while watching "The Hollow". There are many stupid lines, especially from the character of Karen that makes the movie funnier. I only recommend this movie for viewers that loves slash movies and do not have a better option to see. It is impressive the numbers of favorable reviews released for this movie in IMDb by users with only one review, just to promote "The Hollow". They probably will give lots of negative votes to this comment, but I would like to advise IMDb users that this procedure is adopted in many bad movie, to mislead the reader with good reviews. Pay attention on the number of reviews written by the reviewer. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Halloween Macabro" ("Macabre Halloween")

Washington Irving's short story 'The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow', which the screenwriters don't seem to have understood fully, provides the basis for this fair-to-middling effort. A new kid at Sleepy Hollow, New York's high school is actually a blood relative of the original Ichabod Crane. The family name has been changed to "Cranston", so nobody knows about his ancestry. Purely by coincidence, the innocent teen is hired to tell the story of the Headless Horseman to groups of kids as part of the town's Halloween celebration. (What were the odds?) Cemetery caretaker Stacy Keach is the requisite Crazy Old Guy who knows the "truth" behind the famous story but, as is so often the case with Crazy Old Guys, nobody will listen to him until it's too late and heads have begun to roll. THE HOLLOW tells us that Irving's famous folk tale was more-or-less true, kind of like how RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD told us the events in the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD really happened. Unfortunately this movie has little of RETURN's wit or energy. The characters are basically all teen movie stereotypes, including the nice handsome kid, the hot-headed jock, the cute cheerleader, the football coach who's a jerk, and so forth. There are some first-rate, briefly-seen CGI effects, including a shocking moment in which a girl has her head lopped off by the Horseman's sword while she's running away, shown onscreen with no cuts (other than the decapitation, that is). The film has a beautiful autumnal look with all the outdoor night sequences artfully lit with warm oranges, yellows and greens, but it's a shame the trees and assorted foliage don't really suggest New York in the fall. The most damaging problem from a visual standpoint is the fact that not only does this Headless Horseman have a head, but that it's a big, goofy-looking oversized pumpkin. Sure, he kills people, but in truth he looks a little bit ridiculous riding around with that big silly pumpkin mask. All in all the movie isn't a disaster or anything, just a very run-of-the-mill teen slasher entry with a supernatural killer and a tenuous link to a famous work of fiction. Don't expect brilliance, but THE HOLLOW might be worth a watch in the fall if you enjoy movies set at Halloween (like I do).

The Hollow was an OK movie with OK acting. Rent it you could get a little freaked. Kaley Cuoco from TV's 8 Simple Rules is in it, as well as the Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter (Who does worse than Paris Hilton did in HOUSE OF WAX). The movie originally aired on ABC Family, which in my opinion, it shouldn't have, because it was kind of freaky for being a family movie. The TV rating is TV-14 (D,V,L,S) and the MPAA Rating for it is R (for some scary images and sexuality). So if it's rated R why is it considered a family movie? Anyway, THE HOLLOW is an OK movie which I would spend 4 bucks to rent or just watch it on ABC Family's "The Thirteen Nights Of Halloween" (airing from October 19 - October 31).

This dreary, dull and badly-acted trifle trashes Washington Irving and his classic story. To begin with, the entire premise is that the original story is a HORROR story. It's nothing of the sort; it's a pleasant, funny "folk tale" that has a brief scary section.

The movie goes wrong so many ways it's a waste of time to list them all. But a short list would include that it's not remotely scary. It bears little resemblance to Washington Irving, though his name (and gravestone) are mentioned a lot. It takes forever to get going, and when it does, too much happens off screen. This is supposed to be New York in the fall, but all the trees are completely green, and most are evergreens, not the deciduous trees common around the real Sleepy Hollow. The lead actors are all very bad except for Stacy Keach and Judge Reinhold; it's interesting now to see Reinhold, who used to play geeky youths, is now playing the father of a geeky youth. But this geeky youth is drop-dead handsome, resembling Tom Welling. (Gee, do you think that was an accident?)

Finally, the headless horseman has a head.

I feel bad for anyone that is about to waste their lives to see this flick. I watched about 20 minutes of this film before getting weary and restless through lack of interest.

Unless you have an under-aged girlfriend, or you are babysitting for your cousin, you should NOT bother tuning into this when it hits a Television set near you.

If you're a Backstreet Boys fan, Nick Carter is in this flick, so why don't you go buy it just because you think he's hot. He would love to take some more of your parents' money.

To the directors of this film: Please, please, please... never release another movie into the public domain without at least trying to convey a positive message, or at least, an interesting plot.

...was Kevin Zegers...and thats just because I'm biased. What I don't get is how someone can go from acting in an awesome film like the Dawn of the Dead remake to a crapfest like The Hollow. Granted, the film was geared more towards the younger audience (say 5-12 yr olds) But still...what the heck was up with the pumpkin head of the headless horseman? I could have designed something way better using papermache! Whatever...all in all this movie was lame with all the "amazing" special FX and the poor acting jobs done by Nick Carter and Kayley Cuoco. (I'm not adding Kevin Zegers in there because once again I'm being biased *wink*) If you are stuck babysitting your little sister or brother on halloween then this movie is OK, but I wouldn't actually sit down and purposely watch this movie if there are other "much better" films on at the same time. (yes I know I just did but, I've learned my lesson.) I give this movie a 3/10.

It is very rare where I feel compelled to post a review (and I'm not going to waste much time on this drivel), but I just had to with "The Hollow" because this movie was one of the worst I've had the displeasure of sitting through. Horrid acting, characters you couldn't care less about, idiotic dialogue, almost total lack of suspense, and a silly horseman. The lighting was so bad (how many high schools are without glaring fluorescent lights?) to convey mood where the plot could not; it was probably intentional to hide the goofy horseman and amateurish effects. Stacy Keach's scenery-chewing performance was the only highlight to the movie, but even that grew tiresome.

It's no surprise that this is going to debut on ABC Family. It feels like a bad run-of-the-mill TV movie from beginning to end. Avoid if you're over thirteen years old. (One star out of ten.)

"Restless spirits stir this Hollow's Eve, beckoning Ian Cranston (Kevin Zegers), the last blood relative of Ichabod Crane, back to 'Sleepy Hollow'. Thundering hooves unleash a wave of bone-chilling screams as the ghost of the 'Headless Horseman' rides again! Ian must try to save the town and his girlfriend, Karen (Kaley Cuoco), and determine whether the sword-wielding stalker is their clownish classmate Brody (Nick Carter) in costume, or the dark rider himself. If it's truly the 'Headless Horseman'… how do you kill what's already dead?" questions the DVD sleeve. Moreover, why not buy or rent Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow"?

This is a fairly limp update of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", made for a young TV and video audience looking for Halloween thrills. Mr. Zegers and Ms. Cuoco are the good-looking couple pretending to be in high school. Looking heavier than in his singing "Backstreet Boy" days, Mr. Carter nevertheless ups the good hair quotient; he contributes "Blow Your Mind", a leftover CD track. Stacy Keach leads the small group of veterans picking up a paycheck. The funniest scene has a pumpkin-headed horseman helping "doctor" Blake Shields (as Rob) give "nurse" Shelley Bennett (as Erica) some real head.

*** The Hollow (8/25/04) Kyle Newman ~ Kevin Zegers, Kaley Cuoco, Nick Carter, Stacy Keach

first off I really enjoyed this movie,, sure it's' a little campy with a lot of teenagers and stuff, but other than that the story wasn't bad at all,, I love all of the camera shots of the Headless Horseman going by and killing people,, especially the scene on the bridge. STacey Keach and Eileen Brennan are also in this and I really loved those actors because it gives the film a more "legend" feel,, our main character a teenage boy finds out he is the great great grandson of Ichabod Crane, so dealing with that , him and a bunch of other teens see a Headless Horseman riding through town,, they have to figure out if the legend is real or is it one of their classmates playing a prank,, this was a fairly good movie,, I didn't have too many complaints.

The Hollow, as a modern take of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, has many parallels to the original story-many more than say, the version with Johnny Depp. This version will NOT be satisfactory to audiences who prefer slash and gore to horrify them, or that require high cost special effects. The young cast does an adequate job--honestly better than the older, veteran actors. Kaley Cuoco and Kevin Zegers are refreshing, and almost unbearably cute. Nick Carter is surprising in his first movie role. To quote Washington Irving, "full of fun and arrogance, more mischief than illwill" his Brody is at once menacing, arrogant and mesmerizing. He commands the screen. The sole veteran actor who makes steals the scene from the youngsters is Stacey Keach as Claus--we must see more of him. All in all, this is not a movie that would do well at theaters OR impress late teens, but it IS good TV family entertainment for Halloween.

Having been told of his family legacy, a young teen descendant of Ichabod Crane learns the legend of the Headless Horseman is true and out hunting the townspeople's Halloween celebrations forcing him to stop the legendary killer.

Overall this was quite a decent enough slasher. One of the better elements in this one is the rather smart story here that's much better than expected here, managing to tie up some rather intriguing storyline within the legend and making it seem realistic here that the events of the legend really happened here which forces this one into some rather intriguing scenes here. There's a lot of fun here in the opening with the telling of the story setting up the cemetery joke as well as the resulting encounter with the killer out near the shark setting up the story nicely, and the early tormenting really bring this along nicely as there's plenty to like here in this section. That in turn allows the second half to focus on a nearly non-stop series of stalking scenes beginning with the hayride sequence where the real horseman appears alongside the play one leading to some absolutely chilling scenes here going through the graveyard from the horse-bound killer whole trying to protect his girlfriend at the same time. The finale itself is another big plus with the final retelling of the prophecy come true as the big house confrontation to set that up comes off rather well, but this leads into the first of the big problems here. The low-budget nature of this one here is patently obvious throughout which is the single most damaging one here, rendering the supposedly scary being into a cheap, flimsy mask that does little better than the play-version of the killer, the kills are all off-screen due to a lack of showing off the body aftermath and a seriously short running time that keeps this one based around only a few scenes here as there's barely any room in the lot to really stretch out proceeds here which causes this to feel rushed along at the majority of the big encounters while dragging out the other scenes since there's little time to do that with the budget it is. The other big flaw here for this one is the series of constantly irritating jokes throughout here which tends to wear thin here showing off nothing but their treatment of him as an outsider in town, which isn't all that impressive and simply gets boring. After these, there's not a whole lot really wrong here.

Rated R: Violence, Language and Brief Nudity.

The Hollow starts on the Eve of Halloween at the small American town of Sleepy Hollow where new resident Ian Cranston (Kevin Zegers) is driving along trying to impress a local bird named Karen (Kaley Cuoco) when he has to swerve to miss the local cemetery keeper Claus Van Ripper (Stacy Keach) who then tries to convince Ian that he is an actual descendant of Ichabod Crane (just watch Tim Burton's fantastic Sleepy Hollow (1999) to find out who he is) whom escaped the ghostly Headless Horseman many decades ago, so since Ian is technically a Crane the Headless Horseman decides he will take what he can get so he intends to kill Ian as some sort of revenge. Look, just don't ask. Annoyingly for the local population of Sleepy Hollow the Headless Horseman doesn't mind killing anyone who gets in his way, cue lots of American teenagers... yawn...

Directed by Kyle Newman who according to the IMDb credits casted himself as the 'Cool High School Dude' I personally thought The Hollow was rubbish, it's as simple & straight forward as that really. The script by co-producer Hans Rodionoff who also makes a cameo appearance in the finished film as a corpse 'borrows' heavily from Burton's wonderful Sleepy Hollow which The Hollow is inferior to in every single aspect. The first thing to say is that while Burton's film was a brilliant Gothic period who dun-nit murder mystery & by comparison The Hollow is a cheap, tacky, predictable contemporary teen slasher riddled with clichés, bad character's, poor dialogue & unconvincing CGI effects. The decision to move the ahem, 'action' to modern America & populate the cast with annoying teen stereotypes says it all really, this is lazy & uninspired film-making. Add to that the fact that the first 50 odd minutes are really slow, boring & dull which they most certainly are. Apart from the basic legend of the Headless Horseman which is quite a cool concept, a nice looking cast & one or two half decent scenes The Hollow has very little going for it.

Director Newman does nothing to impress, it's competent but little else. What's up with Stacy Keach's character anyway? He seems to know absolutely everything, when the Headless Horseman appears, what his weaknesses are, that Ian is a distant relation to Crane & just about everything else. There's not much gore & what there is totally revolves around decapitated heads & headless bodies. They couldn't afford the CGI effects to make the Headless Horseman headless so they stick a pumpkin on his stump to hide the actors head which looks about twice as large as a normal head, personally I feel cheated I mean this film is supposed to be all about a ghostly Headless Horseman & there technically isn't one. In fact I think they should have renamed him to the Pumpkinhead Horseman, well it has ring to it doesn't it & it would have been a more accurate description.

With a supposed of about $900,000 which I accept isn't much The Hollow is reasonably well made but you'll have probably forgotten it within a day. Quite how (once) respected actors like Keach & Judge Reinhold end up in bottom of the barrel crap like this is anyone's guess, the teenage cast are mostly annoying although some of the birds in this are good looking especially Erica played by Shelly Bennett who gets her head chopped off.

The Hollow is a pointless film really, Tim Burton has already made the perfect Headless Horseman film with Sleepy Hollow & what's left is just your less-than-average teen slasher film that fails to entertain or impress. Not one to rush out to see...

Although, the tale of the Headless Horseman has been told in previous films, Kyle Newman's directorial effort for "The Hollow" is not bad, but not good either. Set in the modern day, The Hollow tells the story of a young teenager named Ian played by Kevin Zegers. Ian happens to be interested in a girl at the local highschool played by Kaley Cuoco. Although she is dating the highschool quaterback (Nick Carter) she falls in love with Ian. But things go wrong when Ian discovers he is the great-great grandson of Icahbod Crane, and on Halloween, the legend of the headless horseman rides again and begins a grisly slaughter against the teenagers of the town. It is up to Ian to stop him. The Hollow lacks suspense and some occasional bad acting, but the story and the musical score kept the film at pace. It was interesting to see Joseph Mazzolo in a film, since he has not been familiar in films since "Jurassic Park". Also Stacy Keach steels the film has the mysterious graveyard keeper who knows the secret of the horseman and Ian's past, and it was nice to see Judge Reinhold as the abusive father type and Oscar nominee Eileen Brennan (Private Benjamin), as usual, looking mean and cruel. Above all, The Hollow, really could have used a tad more originality and maybe shifted a little bit instead of the standard teen slasher film, but you can't except much from a film such as this.

First off, any movie that has Judge Reinhold as a main character should be immediately pulled off the shelf. Secondly movies like this really shouldn't try and follow 2 story lines. The Headless Horseman, and a strained father, son dynamic? Why? What's the point? Terrible, Terrible movie. There is some decent eye candy as far as ladies, but they make the least attractive the main character, maybe in this cast Kaley Cuocco passed as the only one who could act? Stacey Keach as the drunken grave keeper was pretty funny, what with his tossing "ye" in there every once in a while. All in all, it seems like more and more horror movies have you rooting for the characters to die, instead of rooting for them to escape. Someone needs to realize that having characters that are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard doesn't make for a very riveting, tension filled, horror movie

the most useless horror flick ever made to date. movies such as snow white was more scary. little red riding hood had a better plot. on the whole the worst way to spent 2 hours of your life. watching grass grow will give you more satisfaction. the movie has no dramatic scenes or suspense of any kind imaginable.

movies such as the ring where the plot stupid as it seems was justified and made a bit realistic, giving the viewer a scary image. it was not graphic but the sound and picture combined greatly gave an excellent depth. this movie, the hollow, is nothing revolutionary and does not live up to the standard of any movie in the era. low budget movies have ways of disguising the violence and reducing expensive (scary) scenes with sound and mainly suspense.

According to everything I read online, this film was made in 2004. However, i wouldn't surprise me if I found it was actually filmed in 1994 and then sat on the shelf in some studio for ten years, before finally being released to the public (on TV!). I don't think I've seen another movie that looks 'so nineties' which wasn't actually made during the time period.

Now, if that isn't a drawback in itself, the fact that the plot, set-up and dialogue could all come out of a typical 'slasher' film from the eighties. I watched 'Sleepy Hollow' over twenty years ago. I don't know how accurate it was when dealing with the lore concerning the 'headless horseman,' but it was damn entertaining and I still watch it to this day. 'Hollow' is about the same antagonist, only set in modern times.

Seriously, adding a love triangle between 'the jock, the nerd' and 'the cheerleader' to the tale does not add anything to it. It's about as average as any horror film can be and offers absolutely nothing new. Just watch Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' starring Johnny Depp and a whole host of better actors. At least the horseman didn't have a head that looked a cross between Jack Pumpkinhead and one of the halloween masks in 'Halloween 3: Season of the Witch.' Avoid.

I won't say much other than this movie was very boring, the script and acting was terrible, and I'm sorry that I bothered starting this movie that I turned off after sixty minutes.

I understand that the actors have to work with what they are given, but Kaley Cuoco has come a long way in the past ten years. I don't know why directors insist on making main female characters in horror flicks so annoying.

Stacy Keach was hamming it up, all in the name of a paycheck. Kevin Zegers did a fine job, at least for the first half, and thank goodness Nick Carter has a different day job. I would have rather watched him sing and dance for an hour than to have watched this garbage.

This was a fun movie.

The acting isn't over the top bad, just the right amount of cheesy. Stacey Keech and Eileen Brennan are fun, I hope they enjoyed making this. All the actors give a good performance and it shows people that don't like each other but aren't really mean to each other. Not typical high school bullying.

The special affects aren't overly done and the blood and gore is kept to a minimum.

Just a fun old fashioned scary movie that is fun. There is some suggestive sex scenes so this may not be for anyone too young but no actual nudity.

Get some popcorn, turn out the lights and hold on to a loved on and enjoy this one.

Just saw a few minutes of this tour de force in horrible acting. This is a bad B-Movie trying to revive a common remade rehashed familiar story. I'm so glad I didn't invest more time.

Judge Rheingold has aged.... really aged. And he can't wipe that grin off his face even when the scary things were supposed to be happening. He seems like he thinks he's still on the set of Beverly Hills Cop and plays the same character. It's quite hilarious to watch tense moments lightened up by the Judge trying to act scared but not being able to pull it off not even for a moment.

But the show is stolen by Stacey Keach. I can't even say his acting was bad. Still has the deep voice but that script... OMG.... that script. Horrible. He must be paying off some big debts to red the lines and try to pull it off.

The ending could not be more predictable and laughable. I mean could it have been done more often? I really don't think so. And if you're looking to be scared, you'll laugh at loud at the scary scenes. I'm guessing they ran out of money in the budget and decided that they needed the old "cutaway" shots so that you can fill it all in yourself. I wish I could even give this a star for something but I can't find anything redeeming.

The Hollow is the kind of film you watch with a bunch of friends and family who have a good sense of humor. The story uses the archetypal Headless Horseman theme and does a silly bit with poor Washington Irving's grave, but Stacey Keach is priceless as the curmudgeonly Klaus Van Ripper. The name alone is a hoot. What makes this film better ,for me anyway, is that my family and I visit Sleepy Hollow every Halloween for their Legend Weekend festivities. The original Keach character still gives tours of the Old Dutch Church where the bridge used to be and we got some great photographs of him amongst the graves of the Van Alan family. Anyhow, The Hollow, despite some gratuitous gore is not a bad escape for a rainy night and a bowl of popcorn. In addition, the hayride in the film is actually modeled after the Haunted Hayride in Sleepy Hollow that the local High School has been hosting for years.

Excepting the glaring fact that the gallopingly grisly head-chopping nemesis of the sadly neglected noughties horror film 'The Hollow' would, perhaps, better suit the more cumbrous moniker of 'oversized Pumpkin-headed rider', Kyle Newman's frequently fun, teen-creamingly pulpy, B-monster update of the spooky Washington Irving classic is not without its own macabre merit. While bloodily anchored to a standard slasher plot, with its preternaturally perky, bodaciously buxom, uber-Karen cheerleader (Kaley Cuoco), lunk-headed jock, played with effortless verisimilitude by Nick Carter, and a truly epic doom-auguring graveyard caretaker in the crusty guise of bonkers booze-hound Klaus Von Ripper (Stacy Keach), and the earnest, floppy-haired, flouncily-inclined, fleet-footed fencing hero Ian Cranston (Kevin Zegers) who unsettlingly discovers that he is the descendent of the legendary Ichabod Crane, and on one fateful Halloween night, pretty boy Cranston must bravely bring the uncommonly ghoulish, cranium-collecting creep to his Scooby Doom! With a surprisingly eclectic cast, including a weirdly authoritarian turn from 80s icon Judge Reinhold, a deliciously bizarre cameo by the delightful Eileen 'Private Benjamin' Brennan, striking creature design by the iconic FX guru Gabe Bartalos, its playful pantomime spookiness and likeable cast, 'The Hollow' is arguably far less of an empty experience than you might think. Granted, some horror fans might balk at the The Hollow's lack of outrageous gore, I still righteously dug on its creepy-creaky throwback monster movie vibes, and, quite frankly, I pretty much lost my own head every time Kaley Cuoco showed up!

Ian, the last known relative of Ichabod Crane is terrorized by the seemingly mystical Headless Hourseman. He, along with the slightly slutty Karen (Kaley Cuoco of ' Big Bang Theory' fame) must save the town from whomever or whatever the Horseman is while dealing with Karen's jealous boyfriend, jock Brodie.

As far as films in the 'teen scream' genre go, this one isn't too blatantly awful, however it's so utterly forgettable that it slipped my mind that I had already seen it two years before I saw it this time. Pretty bad acting by Kaley, the others are not master thespians either, but she stands out the most. In fact the only conceivable reason to catch this one is the always watchable Stacey Keach in the thankless role of Ian's father.

My Grade: D+

I watched this movie last night with my 8 year old and several of my nieces and nephews who range in age between 7 - 16. This was an entertaining movie. It had us hooked from the beginning. All bad language had been edited out... the violence and gore was implied enough that it got the point across without upsetting the younger kids. It was a great Halloween movie that had enough fright to have the younger kids burying their heads under pillows. The story line was not extremely deep, but it was a great fun movie. There were a few recognizable stars in the cast and a couple that I would say will be "up and coming". Kevin Zegers plays the leading man and I think he really has a nice look about him, and talent to boot. Kaley Cuoco was the leading lady and I just don't think she pulled it off. Nick Carter also had a main role... terrible. Shelley Bennett (up and coming?)played a supporting role - "Erica" - I think they could have utilized her more, she did really good with what they gave her. I think a flip flop of Kaley and Shelley in the roles would have upgraded the movie. All in all, it was a fun flick to watch for the adults and kids and I would watch it again.