Yeah, when you're used to Angela Lansbury as the tough but sweet nanny in Bedknobs or the mystery solving granny in Murder She Wrote you'd be quite shocked to see her as the human meatpie cook in Sweeny Todd. She's comical as well as sinister.




I remember going to New York City when I was a kid and seeing an advertisement at the train station that intrigued me enough to want to see it. Of course, my parents wouldn't take me to something as gory and bloody as that. While not quite as harsh as the Burton movie, the barber did use a straight razor on stage that squirted blood as he drew it across the throats of his victims, giving the appearance to the audience that the throat was indeed sliced open. Pretty gruesome for a stage play at that time. Here is the artwork that was on that poster. It's still one of my favorite drawings ever.