Based on the book
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow authored by Washington Irving, this movie stars Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane and stars Christina Ricci as Katrina Van Tassel. Ichabod Crane is a constable sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate recent murders which occurred there. A man who prides himself on rational and scientific thinking, Ichabod Crane is dumbfounded when he comes across the supernatural being known as the Headless Horseman who is behind these murders. The movie goes into the origins of the Headless Horseman, who was a Hessian mercenary who himself was beheaded.
