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Just last night I was watching Nightmare Before Christmas on cable, which is an awfully fun movie by Tim Burton. Burton is a master of goth punk macabre dark humor type movies. Edward Scissorhands is another of his flicks. One constant in most all of his movies is Johnny Depp. Well, Burton’s newest movie coming own soon is his take on Sweeney Todd, which is the perfect movie for his dark oevre.

Sweeney Todd is a ‘revenge’ movie about a guy who is unjustly sent to prison– he vows to exact revenge for the wrongs done to him as well as his wife and child. He becomes the ‘Demon Barber of Fleet Street’, giving his victims a bit more of a haircut than they bargained for. You can visit the official Sweeney Todd movie site here.

There is a long tradition of films with a revenge theme. One of the best recently was Tarantino’s Kill Bill, where Uma Thurman’s character spends not one but 2 full-length movies mowing down a cast of villains who have done her wrong. One of the best scenes ever filmed is a ridiculously macabre sword fight where she takes on a whole room full of Japanese gangsters; it’s the sort of fight scene which only Tarantino could pull off.

So soon you can see what Burton does with a revenge film. To learn more now, visit Sweeney Todd on MySpace.