The 1999 movie Sleepy Hollow is, to my mind, the film to watch during the transition from early autumn to the Halloween season.

It captures the dreary, de-saturated feeling you get, on the east coast of the U.S., anyway, when you realize there won’t be another day without a chill in the air for a few months.

It’s full of weirdness and dark humor, but one of my favorite exchanges in the movie is this:

Ichabod Crane: You have moved the body.
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: I did.
Crane: You must never move the body!
Lancaster: Why not?
Crane: … Because…

A stylized poster for the film Sleepy Hollow features a shadowy figure on horseback against a moonlit, eerie forest backdrop