Just ask Sweeney Todd.

In this Tim Burton adaptation of the musical, Johnny Depp plays the hunky and dark Sweeney Todd, the “Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, who seeks revenge for being sent to prison by corrupt authorities, for what was supposed to be a life term. He also seeks revenge for a wrongdoing which caused drastic consequences to his wife and child while he was in prison.

Checking out the movie trailer shows that this revenge is indeed worthy of its film: In one memorable scene, a body is seen dropping out of the chair into a chute. Another one down.

Unlike most killers, Sweeney doesn’t seem too aloof: You can visit Sweeney Todd on MySpace!

He also gives his fans a chance to confess to “your deepest shame” or “your proudest crime” at Sweeney Todd’s Confessional. Someone has already started it off with a video confession and a written confession. If I was going to make a confession and plaster it all over the Internet, it wouldn’t be of something illegal! LOL But I have confessed in places, that I’ve had 32 different jobs before I finally got off the empl*yment treadmill. And, one thing I don’t usually say outright is that I, myself, am a vengeful one! If someone does me wrong, I’ll do my best to even up, by whatever means are legally available.

So I can certainly sympathize with the premise of the movie (although I haven’t given anyone a fatal, “closest shave”), and can’t wait for it to hit the theaters on December 21st. Sweeney seems to be the kind of character I’ll end up wishing was real. And since he’s in a movie, he gets to take revenge all the way…

Visit the official Sweeney Todd movie site to see the trailer and see how jail can change a once-innocent man!