aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Sweeney Todd, the movie

Let’s all miss this together:

LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - Ray Winstone brings Sweeney Todd, the mythical demon barber of Fleet Street made famous in Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 Broadway musical, vividly and scarily to life in a memorable new BBC horror film.

Grim and bloody, the drama makes harrowing viewing as it tells of a seriously demented individual who lives as a respected, soft-spoken and expert barber-surgeon in 18th century London while busily murdering his customers with his straight razor.

The current Broadway version was plenty dark for me.