Hmmmm...gotta say a lot of the costuming, the visual representation of women, the use of shadows, the use of sky, the rhythms, the friggin' windmill (right out of Brides of Dracula) all echoed Hammer to me, a lot. To be sure, it was the colonies not England and with a much grander budget, but the first time I saw Sleepy Hollow my mind went to Hammer.
Its a tricky thing, capturing something as nebulous as a "feel." Personally, I find the pics of the new movie more faithful in some ways to the series than was HODS. Mind you, I'm only referring to the pictures. Haven't seen the whole movie yet (no one has--lots of post production and editing yet to do). But it does, hopefully, give a nice foretaste. Prepares my palate, as it were.
For example--colors. Like the original series I see lots of bright colors off-setting the browns, blacks and grays. In fact a fair number of background colors seem muted or desaturated to some degree. One gets the impression of a place faded, and full of shadows. Of course on TV bright colors were often used to make things visually interesting. Elaborate sets and landscapes weren't really possible, and wouldn't work on tiny screens anyway. Star Trek did something similar, with those red, blue and yellow uniforms. For the movies they went with something different, all muted grays and browns at first and then those lovely black-and-burgundy uniforms with gold insignia and color-coded trim. Burton seems to have gone after something similar.
Be interesting to see this flick when it is released on DVD, and to watch it with the color turned all the way down to zero!