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Instead of having his head blown off by a cannonball, as the legend goes, Burton’s Horseman is decapitated by American soldiers in one of Christopher Walken’s most improbable roles. Although Burton alters Ichabod’s character into a New York City constable, who truly is a seeker of truth and justice, he retains the Horseman’s true origin story as a ruthless Hessian mercenary. Not only are Ichabod’s plans thwarted, but he becomes that season’s victim of Sleepy Hollow’s local haint, the Headless Horseman. As the only child of her father Baltus, no mother figure is present and she stands to inherit his entire estate. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’s original plot follows the gold-digging schoolteacher with Scooby Doo and Shaggy’s shared appetite, Ichabod Crane, as he arrives in the small community and immediately tries to woo its beautiful heiress, Katrina van Tassel. This is a shame, for within this shallow graveyard lies an unappreciated anti-heroine bent on revenge: Miranda Richardson’s ‘Lady van Tassel.’

Sleepy Hollow still languishes on Burton’s IMDb list, forgotten like a broken tombstone overgrown with moss. One might say that he hit the nail too hard on the head. Its artistic yet ubiquitous gore earned Burton’s second R rating, alienating most children and adults who didn’t understand his love letter to late 20th-century B Horror flicks. Burton’s trademark emphasis on high style based on Hammer Horror films won awards in industry circles and the Academy Award for Best Art & Set Decoration, yet some critics were unappreciative of how the story was modified to suit a feature-length film. The Headless Horseman himself is a fixture in the American Halloween mindset. Toad (1949), many adaptations of The Legend were already present. Based on Washington Irving’s 1820 gothic story with multiple references to The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Upon its release, the reception of Sleepy Hollow was mixed. Buried beneath a couple of good later films and many others that were made primarily to produce Hot Topic merchandise is my favorite of Burton’s oeuvre, Sleepy Hollow (1999).

Michael Keaton is still my preferred Batman (1989), and Edward Scissorhands (1990) provides the allotted single tear I’m allowed to shed per quarter. Being a kindergartener that only wanted to wear black with her saddle shoes and who inhabited the 001.9 and 130 sections of the old town library, his early work made me feel what would be later known as “seen.” The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) cut my teeth on wishing it was Halloween all year around, and Winona Ryder’s Lydia in Beetlejuice (1988) walked me through middle school under a black and red umbrella. As millennials, we all live in Tim Burton’s shadow, and some of us like it that way more than others.