

The fictional Todd, however, has flourished in English lore for 200 years.

Margery Lovett, his neighbor, then baked his victims’ remains into meat pies. The real Todd supposedly killed his many victims by dropping them from his barber’s chair into an old tunnel that ran beneath his shop.

Receiving restrictive ratings in the US and Canada, this film delights in gory violent details as unwitting customers arrive at Todd’s barbershop, only to have their throats slit and their bodies butchered. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is rated R by the MPAA for graphic bloody violence. Is Sweeney Todd appropriate for high school?
