Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film) with me on this very obtuse and strange road." He also won the Choice Movie Villain award at the Teen Choice Awards; and at Spike TV's 2008 Scream Awards (filmed on October 18, 2008, and aired three days later), the film won two awards: Best Horror Movie, and Best Actor in a Horror Movie or TV Show (Depp). It was listed as number 490 on "Empire"s 500 Greatest films of all time. "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" was released on DVD in the United States on April 1, 2008, and the UK on May 19. A Blu-ray
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street of the story. In the play, Sweeney Todd’s mental collapse and the subsequent plan for Lovett's meat pies take place in less than half a page of dialogue, much too quickly to convey the full psychological impact, in the view of scholar Larry A. Brown. Sondheim's version more carefully reveals the developing ideas in Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett's demented minds. Sondheim has often said that his "Sweeney Todd" was about obsession – and close friends seemed to instinctually agree. When Sondheim first played songs from an early version of the show for Judy Prince (wife of the show's director),