Headless Horseman

OK I saw this movie last night, I was not expecting to much as it was aired by the SCFI Channel. I cant complain it was watchable, the special effects were OK for what they were. The storyline was weak, no real plot twist's. It was basically what you see is what you get from a low budget horror movie. The acting was poor in places, but overall not to bad.

You have to take into account, that this was never gonna be a blockbuster. You were never meant to be wowed just entertained.

So if you want amazing action, big star's, great acting and a story that you are never quite sure what is going to happen, then this is not the film for you.

If on the other hand you just want a little entertainment for an evening in, then this film is watchable, it's not great but if you don't expect too much then you can make it to the end, thinking like me. "I've seen worse"!

I expected the worst here I have to be honest, every previous movie regarding the Headless Horseman mythos has failed royally.

Early on it follows the usual formula of a bunch of 20 somethings on a road trip going on a shortcut and running into trouble. So little originality is on display, then you have the shoddy sfx and patchy script and the thing was setup to follow suit and fail miserably.

However somehow it came out watchable. The cast are oddly competent, Richard Moll is present and the practical effects look great.

Sadly it does trail off a bit and yes as mentioned it has its fair share of flaws. Thankfully there is enough decent content to counter this and Headless Horseman though nothing special is a harmless take your brain out horror effort.

I'll say this, it was still better than Sleepy Hollow (1999)

The Good:

Horseman actually looks okay

Cast do a great job

Richard Moll

The Bad:

Patchy script

SFX aren't great

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

When blowing up a car you may as well blow yourself up with it because reasons

Homeless people wouldn't miss their heads

This, broadcast last weekend was the latest entry in the SciFi channels efforts to make the worst movies of all time. When I am watching a movie like this I'm perfectly able to suspend my belief in the "Real World" and accept the premises of the film. What I can't accept is, within the aforementioned premises, the complete abandonment of normalish standards of behaviour. That's the problem here. The story is an old one and has been told before. In this case a group of kids end up in a mysterious village and the malevolent townspeople don't intend letting them leave. I don't know any of the cast but if normally playing idiots is their thing, they succeed here.All sorts of glaringly obvious escapes are just ignored and stupidity rules the day. Only watch this if you have recorded it so you can liberally use the FF button.

It's hard to believe how lousy this trash is. Never mind the title; this has nothing to do with the Sleepy Hollow legend, nor does it have any of the meaning that story does. It has no meaning at all.

Just some gratuitous torture porn serial slasher flick with acting that makes a kindergarten play look like Oscar material by comparison. It's the same old routine you've seen 14,363,889 times before: a bunch of obnoxious screaming teens are arrested for no reason at all by a stereotyped wacko hillbilly sheriff. The kids are clichéd personality types from Saved by the Bell that would never hang out together in real life (bimbo, nerd, jock, dumb fat kid, smart shy girl with glasses, goth, stoner, etc.) Then a whole town of weirdos picks on them. Then some guy with a fake looking Halloween costume and cheap rasta wig stands around staring at them a lot, drooling blood a lot, and killing them off one by one a lot. But you'll never care what happens to these dimwits; if anything, you'll probably hope they get croaked; at least that'll stop the screaming.

Who will live? Who will die? Who really cares?

I found this to be a standard television horror movie that I have seen. There is not much to the story other than a group of teens gets trapped in a town with a Headless Horseman. The movie does provide an interesting backstory to the Horseman and the town that he resigned in. But the movie is easily predictable and repetitive, with the characters trying to escape but fail a lot of times. I wish the movie had expanded more on the town and the people who lived there to explain their backstory. Other than that, it's just the characters getting killed off one by one and keep returning to the town. The suspense is rather weak since things happened pretty quickly to have any tension to it, and it isn't that thrilling at all. And it's not fun at all. I have little to say about the characters because all of them are one-dimensional and lack any likeability to them. Each one of them have one trait to them and isn't that interesting at all. The townsfolks are your generic creepy locals who have a reason why they try to keep them in the town. But aren't that memorable to watch. The special effects are what you expect from a television movie. The CGI looks awful and looks like something from a Playstation 2 Era. It doesn't translate well, and it looks bad with the gore effects. The practical effects aren't that impressive to see and is rather weak. One more thing to point out is that when the Horseman gets a victim head, he puts it over some liquid thing that slows build up his head back. But the effects look pretty bad when you see it.

Headless Horseman is a medicore television movie that isn't worth watching and sticks with Sleepy Hollow instead.