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Seven friends
are on their way to a big Halloween party
when they decide to take a shortcut to save some time.
Unfortunately, like most shortcuts, it turns out to be
an extreme detour as not only does the road stop in a
small community, but they also end up with a flat tire.
To make things even worse, the village is cursed and
a headless horseman is coming to collect their heads.
From the director of Boo comes this ridiculously cheap
slasher flick and I'm really shocked that Anthony C.
Ferrante even agreed to be involved in this project
as the script sucks, the actors are horrible and the
plot is basically Sleepy Hollow meets 2001 Maniacs.
Sure, I get it, the Sci-Fi channel wanted a Halloween
horror flick and hired Nu-Image to throw something
cheap and simple together but man there's just no
excuse for what I just saw. No excuse.
The campy plot revolves around seven annoying teens,
who are for most part extremely stupid and have flat
and shallow characters, who are on the way to a party.
They decide to take a shortcut to save some time but
end up with a flat tire in a small community called
Worms Wood (or something like that). It doesn't take
long for them to realize that not everything is as
it should be in this village as the locals are acting
very hostile towards them. It turns out that the
village is cursed and that a headless horseman has
come to collect seven heads - man they should have
invited another friend as well shouldn't they?
Anthony C. Ferrante obviously did what he could with
the material as the movie looks better than most
Sci-Fi productions technical wise. The special effects
are quite nice and I really dug the killings since
they were surprisingly gory for a TV-movie. My positive
feedback ends there though. Headless Horseman is a
rather amateurish slasher flick when it comes to...
well... everything else. The actors have no clue as
to what they're doing, and they were probably the
thing that I hated the most about this flick. Watching
a bunch of wannabe-actors play annoying and dislikeable
characters isn't exactly a hoot.
I really quite hated Headless Horseman and I dare to
say that it's the worst movie about the Sleepy Hollow
legend to date... oh wait I almost forgot about
Sleepy Hollow High. Well, they're on the same level.
Don't waste your time with this cheap and rushed
slasher flick as it's as generic as horror movies come.
We've seen it all before and even the twists to the
Sleepy Hollow concept are old. Fine, the Sci-Fi
channel wanted a Halloween movie and they got one but
let's just leave it at that and hope that it never
reaches DVD. Mr. Ferrante, step up your game and make
a sequel to Boo instead would you?
Lots of gory decapitations, fingers cut off, impalements
and a whole lot more. Pretty good stuff actually.
Incompetent and annoying rock music that was way too
loud and occasionally drowned the dialogues.
Not since Sleepy Hollow High has a movie with this
concept been so bad. This was pathetic you guys. The
actors were, pardon my French, shit. The script felt
like it was written in two days and there was no real
sense of horror about this movie. Generic and dull,
why waste your energy right?
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