Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Singer
A Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who in the last century murdered many customers for their money.
DVD Release Date: October 26, 2004
Stats: 214 reviews
Fabulous little chiller from the 1930s. Charming and eerie, and Tod Slaughter is excellent in his title role. Certainly recommended to fans of vintage horror, and of the genre in general.
It's closer to the original penny dreadful than Stephen Sondheim's musical. As far as I'm concerned, that's a bad thing. Sweeney's a pretty two-dimensional character with pretty shallow motivations in this incarnation, and Tod Slaughter's campy performance doesn't help. Might be ...( read more)
I personally like the remake of this much better. This is kind of weak in that he just takes their money. Making them into meat pies is much better and much more twisted!
Esta buena la Película, A lo Tim Burton, Muy buena Fotografía, buena Musicalización. No me gusto tanto el Final. Los chorros de sangre que salen son increibles. hasta me generaban risa. se puede ver.
I know that this film is only 65 minutes long but the time just flew by. Not really scary by today's standard's but I can imagine it raised a few eyebrows when it was first released.
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