Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The original telling of Sweeney Todd.

On the streets of historic London, an urban legend gives birth to Sweeney Todd: a tale of lost love and horror, that will give you more chills and shivers than any Stephan King novel or Edgar Alan Poe's stories. This is the story of Sweeney Todd, and what actually happened to him.

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit
And the vermin of the world inhabit it
And it's morals aren't worth what a pig could spit
And it goes by the name of London...
There was a barber and his wife,
And she was beautiful.
A foolish barber and his wife.
She was his reason and his life,
And she was beautiful,
And she was virtuous,
And he was... naive.
There was another man who saw
That she was beautiful.
A pious vulture of the law,
Who, with a gesture of his claw,
Removed the barber from his plate,
Then there was nothing but to wait,
And she would fall...