Gore blimey, etc - there are a million puns that could be made about Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I’d waited long enough to see it, and I wasn’t disappointed when I finally did.

Adapted from the Steven Sondheim stage score, and directed by the perfectly suited Tim Burton - this ‘musical-macabre’ tells the story of Benjamin Barker, as he returns to London after being banished by a crooked judge and seeks his revenge armed with only his cutthroat friends.

Burton makes the movie look perfect, presenting Victorian London as a gothic scene, dark streets, dirty cobbles and belching chimneys. Lit only by gas-lamps and grey skies, Todd sets up business above the pie shop of Mrs Lovett (played by Helena Bonham-Carter), and so the tale unfolds.

I was surprised just how enjoyable the singing was, Johnny Depp sounding a little like David Bowie, and the rest of the cast well able to carry a tune (even Timothy Spall). There were wonderful turns from Sacha Baron-Cohen as Pirelli, and Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin.

Great film - you must get to see this if you can.