Tim Burton mined his fervor for the classic Hammer Horror films as inspiration for this atmospheric take on Washington Irving's vintage Halloween tale. Johnny Depp plays Ichabod Crane as a curious city police constable sent upstate to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of murders. Tangling with local townsfolk and refusing to believe in "ghouls and goblins," Crane soon finds himself confronted with a local conspiracy – and an all-too-real Headless Horseman (Christopher Walken).