Episode 381: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

We close out our month of horror musicals with Tim Burton's (and Johnny Depp's) last great film: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, an adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical of the same name that casts Depp in the role of a barber intent on bloody revenge, first on the judge (Alan Rickman) that had him transported to Australia, then on the world in general. Helena Bonham Carter is also at her best as Mrs. Lovett who suggests that they supplement Todd's revenge with some capitalist know-how and start baking human beings into pies. Probably the bleakest film Burton has ever made, and also one of the best. Next week, we end spooky season and start our Mel Brooks month with an undoubted masterpiece: Young Frankenstein!