Sleepy Hollow (1999) - Quotes

The Return of the Headless Horseman

Taglines: On November 19, he rides again.

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Science, Mystery, and Timeless Legend

Taglines: A man of science. A woman of mystery. A legend that will never die.

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The Unavoidable Nature of Myth and Mystery

Taglines: Myth is the past we cannot escape. Mystery is the omen we cannot face. Madness is the terror we cannot stop.

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Surviving the Night in Sleepy Hollow

Taglines: You can lock the doors. You can bolt the windows. But can you survive the night?

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Embrace the Night's Uncertainty

Taglines: Close your eyes. Say your prayers. Sleep if you can.

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The Next Victim Awaits

Taglines: Who will it come for next?

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A Warning of Consequences

Taglines: Your heads are history!

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Cautionary Advice from Sleepy Hollow

Taglines: Watch your head!

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A Warning Against Losing Your Head

Taglines: Don't lose your head.

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The Consequences of Defiance

Taglines: Heads will roll.

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Questioning Life and Death in Sleepy Hollow

Young Masbath: Is he... dead?

Crane: That's the problem; he was dead to begin with.

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Identifying the Tree of the Dead

Crane: We take the Indian Trail to the Tree of the Dead.

Young Masbath: How will we recognize it?

Crane: Without difficulty, I rather fear.

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Murder's Reality Beyond the Supernatural

Crane: Gentlemen: murder needs no ghosts come from the grave. We have murders in New York without benefit of ghouls and goblins.

Van Tassel: You are a long way from New York, constable.

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Mysterious Murders and Missing Heads

Crane: So... three persons murdered. First, Peter Van Garrett and his son, Dirk Van Garrett. Both of them strong, capable men, found together... decapitated. One week later, the widow Winship. Also decapitated. Now, I will need to ask you many questions. But first, let me ask: Is anyone suspected?

Van Tassell: How much have your superiors explained to you, constable?

Crane: Only that the three were slain in open ground. Their heads found severed from their bodies.

Reverend Steenwyck: Their heads were not found severed. Their heads were not found at all.

Crane: The heads are... Gone?

Notary Hardenbrook: Taken. Taken by the Headless Horseman. Taken back to hell.

Crane: [confused] Pardon, I...I don't...

Van Tassell: [Crane does so] Perhaps you had best sit down? The Horseman was a Hessian mercenary, sent to these shores by German princes to keep Americans under the yoke of England. But unlike his compatriots, who came for money, the Horseman came for love of carnage. When battle was joined, there you'd find him; he rode a giant black steed named Daredevil, and was infamous for riding his horse hard into battle, chopping off heads at full gallop. He'd filed his teeth down to sharp points, to add to the ferocity of his appearance. This butcher didn't finally meet his end until the winter of 79, not far from here in our western woods. They chopped off his head with his own sword; even today the western woods is a haunted place, where brave men will not venture...for what was planted in the ground that day was a seed of evil. And so it's been for 20 years...but now the Hessian wakes. He's on the rampage, cutting off heads where he finds them.

Crane: Are you saying...? Is that what you believe?

Notary Hardenbrook: Seeing is believing.

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Bewitchment and Heartbreak in Sleepy Hollow

Katrina: I have shed my tears for Brom, and yet my heart is not broken. Do you think me wicked?

Crane: No... but perhaps there is a little bit of witch in you, Katrina.

Katrina: Why do you say that?

Crane: Because you have bewitched me.

Mysterious Murders in Sleepy Hollow Community

Burgomaster: There is a town upstate, two days journey to the north, in the Hudson Highlands. It is a place called Sleepy Hollow. Have you heard of it?

Crane: I have not.

Burgomaster: An isolated farming community, mainly Dutch. Three persons have been murdered there, all within a fortnight, each one found with the head lopped off.

Crane: Lopped off?

Burgomaster: Clean as dandelion heads," apparently. You will take these experimentations of yours to Sleepy Hollow, and there you will detect the murderer. Bring him here to face our good justice. Will you do this?

Crane: I shall.

Burgomaster: Remember, it is you, Ichabod Crane, who is now put to the test.