Headless Horseman (2007)

Director:

Anthony C. Ferrante

Writers:

Zachary Weintraub (written by) and
Anthony C. Ferrante (written by) ...

Genre:

Horror

Cast

Billy Aaron Brown	...	Liam
Rebecca Mozo	...	Ava
Richard Moll	...	Kolchak Jefferson Stillwall
Arianne Fraser	...	Tiffany
M. Steven Felty	...	Pa Rusk / Sgt. Mosby Rusk
Trish Coren	...	Lizzie
Elizabeth Prestel	...	Candy
Brent Lydic	...	Nash
Joe Hartzler	...	Doc
Elvin Dandel	...	Seth
Vasile Albinet	...	Headless / Calvin Montgomery
Greg Atkins	...	Sheriff Steve Buck
Alin Constantinescu	...	Davis

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and gore.

Runtime:

87 min | 92 min (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Active Entertainment

Trivia:

The junk yard seen in the movie is real. Several years prior to the film's production, a yard worker was crushed to death by a piece of heavy machinery which was being driven by another employee to move junk cars. Rumors soon arose that the junk yard was haunted by his ghost. Film production had already begun before anyone involved with the movie "learned" of this legend. As a "precautionary measure", a local priest was asked to perform a blessing on the filming location. In appreciation, the production company made a charitable donation to the priest's church. Nothing out of the ordinary happened at first, but it was soon reported that "unexplained lights" were seen floating around the empty set in the late evening and at night. Also several windows of junk cars mysteriously shattered for no apparent reason during the daytime while film crew members were nearby. The priest returned to perform blessings each morning at sunrise. He also went to the nearby cemetery where the yard worker was buried and anointed the stone entrance-way with holy oil (the act of "Holy Unction"). In the Orthodox Christian tradition of "Almsgiving", food and new clothing was purchased and subsequently donated to several local charities near the junk yard. Oddly, no other "unusual incidents" were reported during the production.

Movie Connections:

References Deliverance (1972)

I hoped the creature would slash them all

It's hard to believe how lousy this trash is. Never mind the title; this has nothing to do with the Sleepy Hollow legend, nor does it have any of the meaning that story does. It has no meaning at all.

Just some gratuitous torture porn serial slasher flick with acting that makes a kindergarten play look like Oscar material by comparison. It's the same old routine you've seen 14,363,889 times before: a bunch of obnoxious screaming teens are arrested for no reason at all by a stereotyped wacko hillbilly sheriff. The kids are clichéd personality types from Saved by the Bell that would never hang out together in real life (bimbo, nerd, jock, dumb fat kid, smart shy girl with glasses, goth, stoner, etc.) Then a whole town of weirdos picks on them. Then some guy with a fake looking Halloween costume and cheap rasta wig stands around staring at them a lot, drooling blood a lot, and killing them off one by one a lot. But you'll never care what happens to these dimwits; if anything, you'll probably hope they get croaked; at least that'll stop the screaming.

Who will live? Who will die? Who really cares?