People are voting emotionally.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

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.

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 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...

File this one under: Great concept, mediocre execution. The story is about Ian Cranston, a High School kid who carries the bloodline of Ichabod Crane. As soon as Ian moves into Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman returns to life to finish the Cranes off once and for all. Kind of a neat little idea, and it could have been fun movie but the concept got lost somewhere along the line.It's hard to pinpoint what's wrong with the Hollow. For the most part, it's shot pretty well. There are some scenes that are really dark and grainy, but for the most part the movie looks better than most of these low budget horror flicks. I can't really fault the actors, even though Nick Carter is nobody's idea of a talented thespian and whoever thought casting Judge Reinhold as a football coach should be fired immediately. But the movie is carried pretty solidly by hottie Kevin Zegers and the girl from 8 Simple Rules. The real standout as far as acting goes is Stacey Keach, who really seems to be having a lot of fun with the role of the old grave keeper. I can't fault the writing, because while it's a little clichéd at times, there is a solid pacing to the story.I think the problem with this movie is that it doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up. Part horror movie and part after school special, it winds up feeling like an R.L. Stine Goosebumps episode with some nudity in it. The Hollow's biggest flaw is that it's uneven. The next biggest flaw is the way the Headless Horseman looks. He has a head, for one thing... and it's a completely ridiculous looking pumpkin head. As it is, the Hollow is worth a rental if you're a fan of the old Disney cartoon and are interested in seeing a modern day retelling of the story. I don't plan on adding it to my collection, but if you have kids that are like in their early teens, they might enjoy watching it on Halloween night.