Enjoy People Pie for Christmas with Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd

When it comes to the Christmas release of Sweeney Todd there's definitely a burst of anticipation in the air. Why? Because rumor has it Johnny Depp is back with a tasty, award-winning vengeance!

But of course he is - vengeance is what Sweeney Todd is all about. Some will have trouble with Depp portraying a mad slasher, but those few people who braved Depp's astounding but very dark and gritty performance in The Libertine know that this actor can go stone-cold scary with the best of them.

Although a blade will again be a prominent prop in Depp's hand, as it has been in his other films, don't expect the naivet� of Edward Scissorhands or the roguish spankiness of Captain Jack Sparrow to be much in evidence. In Dreamworks' Sweeney Todd, Depp will morph into something altogether different, altogether sinister in the end.

Stills from the film trickled forth like, dare we say, a weeping wound until finally the trailers began appearing recently on the web.

Have some fun and judge for yourself. Click here for the US trailer and here for the first international trailer:

It will be quite a treat to see Depp slip to the depths of dark depravity as he goes from the blessedly happy gentleman Benjamin Barker to the tortuously grieving demon barber of Fleet Street known as Sweeney Todd. Well, what should an honorable man do when an evil-doer (Judge Turpin) sends him to prison for life in order to steal his wife and child? Chances are, you, too, might hatch one of the most macabre and disturbing revenge plots in musical theatre history.

Musical theatre? Yes, that's right. For those who don't know, Tim Burton's version of Sweeney Todd is indeed based on the famous, award winning Broadway production "Sweeney Todd...The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," with songs by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. In Burton's film, there is also singing, lots of it.