Based on the hit musical from Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, and from the dark, gothic imagination of director Tim Burton comes Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a bloody tale of music, murder, melodrama, meat pies and one man’s desperate desire for revenge.

Arriving back in London after 15 years of false imprisonment in Australia, Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) vows to kill the evil Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) and his nefarious henchman Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall), who shipped him off to the other side of the world on a trumped-up charge in order to steal his wife, Lucy and his baby daughter from him.

Adopting the guise of Sweeney Todd, Barker sets up shop in his old Barber Shop above the pie-making premises of Mrs. Nellie Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), who tells him that his wife poisoned herself after Judge Turpin took advantage of her. When a rival threatens to expose Barker's real identity, Todd kills him by cutting his throat. Not knowing what to do with the body, Mrs. Lovett sees this crisis as a potential solution to her ailing business—and suggests using human flesh as the filling for her pies.

Todd discovers that the Judge has turned his amorous affections towards Johanna (Jayne Wisener), Todd's now teenaged daughter, who has become Turpin’s ward. Meanwhile, Mrs. Lovett’s pies soon become the talk of London, and as business booms, she dreams of respectability and a life at the seaside with Todd as her husband.

But Sweeney Todd has only revenge on his mind—to the detriment of anyone or anything else.