خلاصه داستان : در لندن سال 1846، سلمانی سوئینی تاد که به خاطر مرگ والدینش به دست قاضی فاسد داغدار است، با خانم لاوت که او نیز از همین قاضی آسیب دیده، متحد می‌شود. آن‌ها با هم به دنبال انتقام تاریکی هستند که نقشه‌ای مرگبار را خانم لاوت هدایت می‌کند.

London, 1846: successful barber, Sweeney Todd, has for years been haunted by the loss of his parents at the hands of a cruel Judge. One fateful night, his path crosses with local baker, Mrs. Lovett, a woman who too has suffered a devastating miscarriage of justice by the same judge and his corrupt associates. Scheming to put a deadly end to the cycle of abuse and exploitation, Todd and Lovett make a pact, and it is her that leads the charge in seeking a bloody revenge, in the most macabre of ways.