With its rivers of blood this adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical isn't for the faint of heart--or stomach. But thanks to the black humor impeccable production design and gorgeous music Tim Burton fans will want to sing after seeing SWEENEY TODD. For his sixth collaboration with the director Johnny Depp stars as Benjamin Barker aka Sweeney Todd a barber falsely imprisoned by Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). After leaving prison he comes back to Victorian London to find his wife poisoned and his daughter held captive. As he plots his revenge Sweeney joins forces with Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter) and while he preys on clients asking for a shave his new partner turns the bodies into baked goods. But the judge still lives and the razor-wielding madman wants his vengeance.

Though it's a musical SWEENEY TODD has more in common with Italian horror films such as SUSPIRIA than it does with CHICAGO. Even the horror-musical hybrid LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS pales in comparison to the da...