Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1984)

  • 76% of users liked it
    (21,773 ratings)

Stephen Sondheim's award winning Broadway musical about a barber who turns his customers into meat pies.

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Unrated,
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Genres
Drama, Television, Horror, Musical & Performing Arts
In Theaters
Jun 1, 1984 Wide
RKO Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Mark Bourne, DVDJournal.com

    Toto, I don't think we're in Oklahoma anymore.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Spencer S


    A grisly, gruesome, great film. Tim Burton delivers, and Depp is his artistic puppet.

  • Leigh R


    Brilliant!

  • Lanning :


    Note that this is a play, not a movie, so if you're looking for a film, this isn't. Because this production was filmed at the beginning of the '80s, the film and sound quality are good, but they're not great. Still, it's much of the original cast, and Angela… More

  • Morgan S


    3 letters OMG. lol i loved the movie and the play came near my town and i wanted to see it...parents wouldnt take me so i asked my band teacher...we couldnt go so he says ! HEY! this was like my favorite play in the world i have the video... ....I watched it and thought it was… More

  • Deb S


    Dark, Sinister, Macabre, no one portrays these qualities better than Johnny Depp- a man torn apart by vengeance. Too much blood and gory for my taste however.

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