Goths, ghouls and Grand Guignol: three Burton hallmarks given their head in Sleepy Hollow, an almost-but-not-quite adaptation of Washington Irving's story. Burton's Sleepy Hollow is a mist-shrouded folk fantasia that takes one of America's iconic tales and twists it into something unmistakably 'Burtonesque', a vision fuelled by his boyhood love of Hammer Horrors. "Tim says that he was brought up watching my movies," says Christopher Lee, cast here as just the kind of pompous lawman that used to get right up his nose as Dracula. "Sleepy Hollow was his tribute to the Hammer Horror movies he remembers so vividly." His half-lit, half-real gothic worlds - Gotham, Sweeney Todd's London, even Halloween Town - make Burton Hollywood's go-to man for dark-hued magical realism, but it's the humour here, and Depp's scaredy-cat Ichabod, that makes it.