Monday, October 7, 2024
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…
