Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Most people think so. 81% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 68%.

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman. Wikipedia ↗

Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American gothic supernatural horror film directed by Tim Burton, loosely based on Washington Irving's 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Johnny Depp stars as Ichabod Crane, reimagined as a squeamish, science-obsessed New York City constable in 1799 who is sent to the Dutch settlement of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of decapitations attributed to a ghostly Headless Horseman. Burton's Sleepy Hollow was the director's most visually atmospheric film, a love letter to Hammer horror films rendered in a perpetually gray, fog-drenched landscape of twisted trees, crumbling churches, and blood-red earth. Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography created images of Gothic beauty, and Christopher Walken's brief, terrifying appearance as the Hessian horseman in flashback was effectively menacing.

Rick Heinrichs won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Sleepy Hollow earned $206 million worldwide on a $65 million budget.