10 Horror Movies That Pissed You Off Straight Away

Tim Burton used to love nothing more than to dress Johnny Depp up, slap a bit of makeup on him and turn him loose on his weird and wacky fantasy worlds. And yet he hasn’t really done it for over a decade, quite rightly judging that audiences had had their fill of the bit.

Back in their heyday though, the pair were the big headline for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a feature adaptation of the story everyone knows so well. It’s simple really - Sweeney Todd (Depp) rocks up in London, opens a barbers and begins bumping off his customers, cutting their throats with his razor and sending them to the adjoining shop where they’re baked into a nice savoury pie and sold to an insatiable public.

There’s only one hitch: nobody told us there would be song.

Sweeney Todd was marketed as a straight (if flamboyantly Burton-esque) horror film - so many audience members were surprised when the soon-to-be barber starts singing right as the film opens. Arriving in London alongside young sailor, Anthony Hope (Jamie Campbell Bower), the pair burst into "No Place Like London" and the tone of the entire piece - and our horror expectations - are flipped on their head. And unsuspecting viewers are still getting taken in by it today.