Headless Horseman is a 2007 horror film that aired on the Sci-Fi (now Syfy) Channel in October 2007, based on the legend of the Headless Horseman. The movie takes the tack that the Washington Irving story was the “white-washed” version and the events in this horror film is the real story. It was directed by Anthony C. Ferrante and stars Richard Moll and Billy Aaron Brown.
After going through the woods on the way to a party, seven teenagers stumble upon a town called Wormwood Ridge. The townspeople are celebrating a Headless Horseman ceremony, which unbeknownst to the teenagers requires human heads from young people. The teens, with the help of a young tow-truck driver named Candy (who is initially on the town’s side, but later feels guilty and decides to help the teens), attempt to escape the town before they are killed…
As freshness-expired as Headless Horseman (2007) is, seven teens end up in Wormwood Ridge, a mysterious rundown town with no Jiffy Lube™. What it does have, though, is a vengeful headless horseman, named Headless. Cute.
HH coincidentally needs seven heads to drop into that boiling tar hole in his garage. This dirty orifice is Hell’s dumbwaiter as a tentacled thingamajig reaches out to snag said offerings, thereby allowing HH to roam the earth. If he doesn’t put the required amount of heads in the pit by midnight, he and the whole town will be sucked down to Hell.
Craniums get lopped off, but sadly it’s all done digitally. The best moment – aside from a young supermodel-in-training slowly changing clothes – comes when she drives her father’s truck right over Horsy’s head and it pops like a grape in pliers. Major plot spoiler: the Headless Horseman has a head.
There’s a third-grade backstory about a priest, enchanted sword and the snake constellation whose stars line up to… Yep, it’s stupid. So is the Headless Horseman himself, who even rides a motorcycle at one point. (Ghost Rider is gonna want to have a word with you, pal). It takes less than two minutes total for the heads to be cut off. You’re on your own for the movie’s remaining eighty-eight.
Jeff Gilbert – Drinkin’ & Drive-In
