  |
This article's content is marked as Mature The page contains mature content that may include coarse language, sexual references, and/or graphic violent images which may be disturbing to some. Mature pages are recommended for those who are 18 years of age and older. If you are 18 years or older or are comfortable with graphic material, you are free to view this page. Otherwise, you should close this page and view another page. |
Lord Crane is a minor antagonist of the 1999 horror film Sleepy Hollow, an adaptation of the late Washington Irving's 1820 gothic story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
He was a fundamentalist lord who was the father of Ichabod Crane.
He was portrayed by Peter Guinness.
Role[]
Not so much was known about Lord Crane, except for the fact that he led a church, which was filled with torture devices in which he used to inflict pain on those who defy his religion (or so as he seems).
Lord Crane eventually found out that his wife Lady Crane was a white witch as she was mesmerizing a young Ichabod with harmless magic. Despite the fact that Lady Crane was doing no harm, Lord Crane didn't care and confronted his wife for practicing witchcraft. He then took her over to the torture room inside his church, where he kills her by stuffing her body into a iron maiden.
As Lord Crane leaves the church satisfied, little did he knew that the young Ichabod was watching over him before heading over to the torture room, where he he accidentally pricks his hands on a spiked chair before finding his mother's corpse inside the iron maiden, much to his complete shock.
Because of this event, this drove a traumatized Ichabod to renounce Christianity and denounce his hated father for murdering his mother. It also drove Ichabod to grow up to become a police constable, relying on scientific and logical methods and to solve cases instead of using brute force. It is unknown what happened to Lord Crane afterwards, though it could be that he was arrested for marrying a witch. However, he might've also realized that Ichabod had discovered the fate of his mother, and that he renounced Christianity and denounced him for his crimes, and so in retaliation to it, he presumably disowned him, too.
