Published Sep 6, 2026, 7:45 PM EDT
A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he’s an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne from a misspent youth of watching monster movies on TV, perusing the sun-faded goods at the local video rental shop, and staining his fingers with ink from the Video Movie Guide. Areas of interest include science fiction, film noir, horror flicks, ’70s disaster pictures, Bond movies, ’90s action, giant robots, dinosaurs, super heroes, and the exuberantly schlocky output of Cannon Films. He also enjoys both Star Trek and Star Wars when they’re good, and maybe even more when they’re bad. As a Canadian, he also has a vested interest in Canadian movies and TV shows, especially the cheesier ones dubbed “Canuxploitation.”
An expert on Marvel Comics, he has also written for the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, and is a member of the Marvel Research Team. He can frequently be found pontificating on comic-book continuity or bemoaning the misfortunes of the Toronto Maple Leafs on his Twitter account.
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Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a classic American Halloween tale, although the holiday is not mentioned in its pages; in fact, Halloween wasn’t widely celebrated in North America until long after Irving’s death. Nevertheless, the short story’s eerie and autumnal vibes have made it a seasonal favorite. Now, another interpretation of the tale is in the works, with Sydney Sweeney attached to star and produce; and while you wait for it to emerge from the darkened woods, another classic adaptation is now available to watch for free.
***Hollow ***is a new take on the tale, based on the debut novel by filmmaker Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines), which is set to be released in the spring of 2027. Beer is adapting and directing her own novel, which will center around Katrina Van Tassel (Sweeney). A resident of the upstate New York hamlet of Sleepy Hollow in the late 18th century, Van Tassel finds herself being auctioned off for marriage to settle her family’s debts. Two suitors emerge: the brash Brom Bones and the intellectual Ichabod Crane. She soon finds herself in a love triangle, which is complicated by the hellish Headless Horseman, who’s begun lopping off heads left and right. *Hollow *is currently in development, and has not yet begun production.
While you wait, however, you can see the revisionist Irving adaptation that set the stage for Hollow, and you won’t lose your head over its cost. Sleepy Hollow, Tim Burton’s Gothic interpretation of the story, is now streaming for free on the ad-supported streamer Tubi. Johnny Depp stars as Ichabod Crane, a detective who’s been dispatched to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the spate of beheadings that’s bedeviling the small town. He falls in love with local Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci), only to learn that she’s connected to the true culprit: the Headless Horseman (Christopher Walken), an undead Hessian mercenary who’s at the beck and call of a mysterious puppet master.
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
Burton, who began his career as a Disney animator, had a connection to the source material: One of his teachers during his Disney days had worked on The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, the studio’s beloved 1949 animated adaptation of the story. As the movie was shot in England, he also used it to homage the horror movies of Hammer Films, casting Hammer regulars like Christopher Lee and Michael Gough.
Sleepy Hollow is now streaming for free on Tubi. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
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