A murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, the barber and baker hatch a plan to murder and make human pies to be sold in his shop.A murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, the barber and baker hatch a plan to murder and make human pies to be sold in his shop.A murderous barber and his equally psychopathic friend, a baker, the barber and baker hatch a plan to murder and make human pies to be sold in his shop.
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- TriviaAnnabella Wood's only other movie credit is 'The House that Vanished' 1974, in which she appears naked in bed with a monkey.
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Rosie: [drunk] Give me a drink.
Tobias Ragg: You've had too many already.
Rosie: Like hell I have! So, what are we going to do about it?
Tobias Ragg: About what?
Rosie: Don't play games with me, Tobias! I'm tired of it!
Tobias Ragg: Then get yourself someone else.
Rosie: That would suit you fine, wouldn't it? Well, I ain't goin' to let you go. You have the pleasure, so you can pay the piper.
Tobias Ragg: My, ain't we poetic?
Rosie: Listen ducks, you ain't gettin' out of it. Little old Rosie ain't going to let you go.
Tobias Ragg: You think you're smart, don't you?
Rosie: I'm a whole lot smarter that you give me credit for.
Tobias Ragg: Suppose I leave, what would you do?
Rosie: I ain't going to tell you that. But believe me ducks, if I were you, I'd stay with little old Rosie.
- Alternate versionsBloodthirsty Butchers had a scene in which a victim has their entrails being pulled out of their stomach. This scene was edited out by the film's producer William Mishkin either because he was sickened by that sequence or he felt that the film would have rating problems with the MPAA. But, publicity photos show this scene.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Fleshpot on 42nd Street (1972)
1/2 (out of 4)
Barber Sweeney Todd (John Miranda) and baker Maggie Lovett (Jane Hilary) realize that they can be a service to one another and team up in this maddening Andy Milligan film. Sweeney Todd murders the patrons who sit in his barber chair and he sends the meat over to Lovett for her pies.
I've seen the majority of the Milligan titles that are currently available and I must say that I'm amazed that he has such a following. Well, let me take that back. It's easy to see why such horrible films would have a following since many people love bad movies. What shocks me is the fact that there are many people out there who feel that Milligan was a great director and that something like BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHERS was a great film.
It's pretty darn hard to mess up the Sweeney Todd story but Milligan manages to do that with this incredibly poorly acted film that doesn't do a thing in regards to entertainment. We start off with a man betting chopped up by the butcher and the special effects are so awful that you can't help but laugh. In fact, Milligan doesn't even try to hide how poorly the rubber hand and fingers are!
From here the film pretty much turns into a boring melodrama as we see Todd and Lovett talk, argue, fight, make up and do a wide range of other dialogue scenes that just really drag the film down. It doesn't help that the performances are on the bad side and it really doesn't help that the dialogue is some of the worst that you'll ever have to listen to. There's not much real gore or violence so that's another letdown.
What really shocks me about Milligan and films like this is that he apparently felt that someone wanted to watch them. His films are basically arthouse movies that try to pass themselves off as exploitation or horror movies. The problem is that those elements are never delivered an instead we are left with rather poor films.
- Michael_Elliott
- Sep 30, 2018
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- $18,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1