the demon barber of fleet street

this poster-image [via] of Tim Burton's upcoming flick is too deliciously devious not
to post, IMHO (and i'm darned tempted to recreate this as a 1/6th-diorama LOL)

"In the film/play, Todd’s victims are sat in a mechanical chair, where they are subject to a slice across their throats, before a trap door in the floor opens and they slide down a chute into the lair of Todd’s mistress, Mrs Lovett (played by Helena Bonham Carter), who uses the dead bodies to make her meat pies. One scene that is said to have particularly bothered the studio bosses involved a “ten-year-old boy cutting up body parts, which were then thrown into a meat grinder and turned into mince.” [read more via Slashfilm]

now that's something i would appreciate = "horror-aesthetics" versus "blood-gore", as only
Tim Burton could envision (Edward Scissorhands / Sleepy Hollow = "glory-goth"), IMHO :)




DreamWorks Pictures' Sweeney Todd releases December 2007.