Headless Horseman

Well the cover/poster for this 2022 action horror movie titled "Headless Horseman" definitely was interesting enough to make me stop and take notice. And with this being a movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to watch it.

But I have to say that I was initially thinking that the movie would be a knock-off of the "Ghostrider" movies doing a cross-over with "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". I mean, look at the cover of the movie, doesn't that say it all. Despite that, I opted to watch what writer and director Jose Prendes had to offer.

And when those two dreaded words, The Asylum, appeared on the screen, I must admit that my expectations for "Headless Horseman" went from slim to none. But still, I opted to give the movie a fair chance.

The storyline in "Headless Horseman" was pretty straight forward, and it made for an easy viewing. However, writer and director Jose Prendes didn't bring anything new to the genre, nor did he churn out an outstanding script for the movie. "Headless Horseman" is one of those movies that are bad enough to warrant a single viewing just for the fun of it, but not good enough to sustain more than a single guilty pleasure viewing.

The acting performances in the movie were fair enough, given the contents of the script and storyline. You're not in for an evening of Shakespearian cinema here, but that is of course a given. The only familiar face on the cast list, to me at least, was actors Sean Whalen and Michael Paré.

Visually then "Headless Horseman" was actually fair enough for a movie from The Asylum, and at least that counts for something.

While I managed to endure all 85 minutes of this 2022 action horror from The Asylum, then I wasn't particularly entertained. It is not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on. Nor is it a movie that I will watch a second time.

My rating of writer and director Jose Prendes's "Headless Horseman" lands on a three out of ten stars.

Ok, i do like cheap B movies as long as they arent lame, this one is.

Lets start off with the title, no one is headless and no horse. Ok.so you want to count the cheap Harley? Come on.

Same ole song & dance. Drug lord fixated with an exgirlfriend, trys to kill the new boyfriend, then.... Pumpkinhead.

Revenge, survival, deal with the Devil. I dont mind a rehash, but a better writer would have helped. For me, i could see the "Charles Band" influence in the look of this film as well as the special effects.

Corny, silly, bad script, tacky special effects, It does have Sean Whalen in it, who plays the not so stable guy ( as usual ). Whalen is often cast in a unique role well suited for him, as was the case here.

It has entertainment value, is set in October with a trick or treat scene, scores points for that.

This boring mix of Ghost Rider and The Crow is the cheapest movie I've seen they asylum release since their early DV Cam output.

No joke, about 40% of the movie takes place on a bike overpass of a road!

The "headless horseman" aspect is as random and pointless as you can get. The devil decides to give our hero a flaming pumpkinhead for no reason. He also gets a single Wolverine hand to shoot green electricity out of.

The boring plot is this: a guy is killed by his fiancé's biker gang drug lord leader (I hate when that happens) and the devil gives him a deal: revenge for his soul. He then rides around and talks to people asking where they've taken his darling before killing them in bland cgi ways.

To make things even more lame, about an hour in he decides to trust the villains will let her go if he leaves so he does and goes to hell early!

They set up for a sequel as if anyone would ever want 4 more minutes of this story.

Well the description is misleading says he makes a deal with the devil just as he is being decapitated...decapitation is not even on the radar with the main character. He just gets shot like a zillion times, but the main protagonist if you notice is wearing a wolverine bomber jacket in the beginning and then gets a claw similar to wolverines and then of course the flaming pumpkin head and motorcycle which is obvious a ghost rider knock off. So he is wolve rider or the ghosterine, take your pick. Having said that it was just insane to hold my attention for the entire run time and not be resentful. Oh and Jaime from the progressive commercial is in it. He's a crack junkie bad guy which was quite strange to see him in this role.

No pun intended - I am really happy with my summary line to be honest. Even more so because I just came up with it. The connections or similarities to that other movie are just too present. Too obvious in a sense. It does have Michael Pare who is able to hold a movie on his own - and he may be one of the reason why I did rate this better than you may expect.

On the other hand I have been known and blamed for being too kind when it comes to my voting ... so there you go. I do like some of the other actors too - not that I would call this their finer work. Special effects are more or less what you would expect from a low budget movie. Maybe a bit better? Again, low bar and all that - can't compare this with bigger budgeted movies ... like The Crow ... well you shouldn't.