Joanne Whalley stars as Mrs Lovett and Martin Jarvis as barber Sweeney Todd in this masterly, rediscovered, horror-thriller. Based on the novel by Thomas Prest.

Sweeney Todd is a character with a long history, dating back to the 1840s penny dreadful series “A String of Pearls,” about a barber who kills his clients and gives their corpses to his ...