Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is based on a 1973 play by Christopher Bond.
" Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B-plus in its Movie Reviews section and stated, "To stage a proper Sweeney Todd, necks must be slit, human flesh must be squished into pastries, and blood ought to spurt in fountains and rivers of death
" In Rolling Stone, Peter Travers awarded it 3 out of 4 stars and added, "Sweeney Todd is a thriller-diller from start to finish: scary, monstrously funny and melodically thrilling 

