Sleepy Hollow (film): Difference between revisions

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: {{spoiler|Ichabod's father's eye-searingly white church hides a dungeon filled with torture devices.}}

** Played with with Katrina. As she the only character to dress in light colors and ride a white horse, her significance is clear immidiately to a [[Genre Savvy]] viewer. When combined with her witchcraft, this makes her legitimately suspcious by the time {{spoiler|Ichabod accuses her of controlling the horseman. In the end, though, [[Light Is Good|she turns out to be a good guy after all.]]}}

* [[Loophole Abuse]]: Sure the Headless Horseman can't enter hallowed ground {{spoiler|but that doesn't mean he can't tie a piece of the fence to a rope, impale his next victim and drag him out that way before beheading him}}.

* [[Lovable Coward]]: Ichabod. Even after he toughens up a bit toward the end, he is still in the habit of using women and children as [[Human Shield|Human Shields]].

* [[Mood Lighting]]: The entirety of the movie except the ending scene is shot with a creepy blue filter. The "red" blood is actually orange.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The horror tone of the scenes with the Horseman are interspersed with the darkly comedic scenes with the bumbling Ichabod Crane.

* [[Mr. Exposition]]: When the true villain is finally revealed, {{spoiler|she}} goes into a long, long [[Info Dump]] of raw, untreated exposition that details {{spoiler|her}} entire scheme in agonizing detail.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: Brom's fake Horseman prank closely mirrors Ichabod's encounter with the horseman in ''The Legend of Sleepy Hollow''.