Hammer horror meets Tim Burton's own nightmare brand of fantasy, and the result is a feast of spurting blood, flying heads and visual imagination. 'Heads will roll! ' promises the publicity, and so they do. Oddball policeman Johnny Depp, ostracised for pioneering scientific detection methods in 1799, is dispatched to spooky Sleepy Hollow, north of New York, where locals are losing their own heads to The Headless Horseman, a spectral rider whose flashing blade decapitates his victims. Forced to believe in the supernatural after witnessing the Horseman at work, Depp nonetheless begins to piece together a pattern that connects the victims. Meanwhile, leading citizens Michael Gambon, Michael Gough, Jeffrey Jones and Richard Griffiths seem involved in a conspiracy of their own - and they're running scared. The film has lots of fights, chases and extremely grisly special effects - especially those involving the Tree of Death. But Danny Elfman's noisy score lacks the rhythm to drive the action on as it should. Another winningly eccentric performance by Depp, though, should make you laugh and gasp in the right places.