A crafty thriller with an interesting premise. The supernatural angle, Walken's convincing performance and Cronenberg's mostly tense direction all make for a good thriller, but there is a lull in the plot half way where nothing much is happening and even though the movie picks up some steam towards the end - the overall feel of the movie is that it is good, but also that it struggles with some disjoninted pacing.

1983: First scene; Walken's character gives his class an assignment, which is to read 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'.
1999: Walken plays the Headless Horseman in Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow'.

Christopher Walken and Martin Sheen are excellent here.