Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Director: Tim Burton

Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Christopher Lee, Jamie Campbell Bowen, Jayne Wisener

(Paramount Pictures, 2007) Rated: R

US DVD release date: 1 April 2008 (Dreamworks)

[21 December 2007]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

With the Fishies Splashing!

Sweeney Todd is delirious with blood and violence: bright red spurting from the barber's expert slashes, necks snapping and bodies crumpling.

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