Directed by Tim Burton / Screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker

Tim Burton’s full-blooded gothic horror adaptation of Washington Irving’s 1820 short story began life as the brainchild of Kevin Yagher, a make-up effects designer turned director, who developed the script with Andrew Kevin Walker, author of 1995’s dark crime thriller Seven. When Burton expressed an interest in directing, Yagher graciously stepped aside, but remained on board as the lead make-up effects artist. Uncredited rewrites were carried out by Burton and playwright Tom Stoppard, fresh from his success with Shakespeare in Love. Keen to evoke an atmosphere that would hark back to the golden days of Universal and Hammer horror, and the better to reflect the eighteenth-century colonial setting, Burton assembled a cast of top-flight actors from both sides of the Atlantic: familiar British faces include Christopher Lee, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Ian McDiarmid and Michael Gough. Heading the cast is Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane, the eccentric New York City constable sent to investigate a series of brutal murders in the remote upstate hamlet of Sleepy Hollow. The locals believe the killer to be the ghostly apparition of a headless horseman, buried beneath a twisted tree, who rides by night in search of his missing head. Initially sceptical, Ichabod is forced to reconsider when more heads begin to roll. Bristling with gallows humour, enjoyable shocks and ravishing visuals (it held its own against the likes of Topsy-Turvy and The Talented Mr Ripley to win the Oscar for Best Art Direction), Sleepy Hollow showcases the Tim Burton magic at its very best.

Framed Dimensions: 315mm x 400mm

Charcoal and soft pastel on 220gsm Daler Rowney smooth paper
Glazed, mounted and framed

Supplied with signed letter of authenticity from Barnaby.