Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix have started piece of work onJoker : Folie à Deux , the highly anticipated continuation to their billion - gross Clown Prince of Crime origin movie . The follow - up is reported to be a melodic set in Arkham Asylum , co - asterisk the great Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn . This musical theater will be decidedly drab thanOklahoma!orCats .
But it wo n’t be the first musical with a drab spirit . From horror movies likeSweeney Toddto harrowing dramas likeLes Misérables , there are plenty of grim musicals out there .
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Henry Selick ’s stop - motion gemThe Nightmare Before Christmasis both one of the spookiest musicals ever made and one of the spookiest Christmas movies ever made . Jack Skellington , the King of “ Halloween Town , ” learn there ’s more to life than panic when he stumbles upon “ Christmas Town . ”
Thanks toregular Tim Burton cooperator Danny Elfman – who wrote the songs , composed the sexual conquest , and provided Jack ’s telling voice – The Nightmare Before Christmashas an unforgettable soundtrack .
A Star Is Born (2018)
Bradley Cooper made his directorial launching with yet another remake ofA Star is pay , which justified its existence with the most harrowingly realistic telling of this tragic story to date . Cooper stars alongside Lady Gaga as the fading euphony genius who takes an aspiring vernal singer under his extension .
Cooper ’s retooling ofA Star is Bornleans heavily into the dark side of Jack ’s dependence , recovery , and the heartbreaking fate he in the end meets , with some beautiful original songs along the elbow room .
West Side Story (1961)
The music ofWest Side Storyis catchy and pollyannaish , but its narrative of gang war is quite dark . It ’s a sort of ganglandRomeo and Juliet . The climactic successiveness has an attempted sexual assault , a insensate - full-blooded execution in the street , and a powerful monologue about the oscillation of violence .
Steven Spielberg ’s remake , released last yearto commercial failure despite critical acclaim , is just as masterfully crafted as the master with even more glaring cinematography .
Phantom Of The Paradise (1974)
One of Brian De Palma ’s most underrated movies , Phantom of the Paradise , recontextualizes the classicPhantom of the Operastory to take office in the modern - day rock music industry . A ill-shapen composer sell his soul so the fair sex he loves will do his music , then gets betrayed by an unscrupulous record producer .
With its compounding of depressed repugnance visuals , showbiz sarcasm , and catchy melodious numbers ( good manners of the film ’s star , Paul Williams),Phantom of the Paradiseis a whole unique movie .
Les Misérables (2012)
Tom Hooper ’s flick version of Herbert Kretzmer ’s West End musical adaptation of Alain Boublil and Claude - Michel Schönberg ’s Gallic musical adjustment of Victor Hugo ’s seminal novelLes Misérableswas a hitting with critics , audience , and awards voters .
Set in 19th - hundred France , Les Misérablestells the bleak story of Jean Valjean , who is send to prison for stealing simoleons and spends decennium being unrelentingly hunted by a law officer for breaking his watchword .
Cannibal! The Musical (1993)
Long before they createdSouth Park , when they were studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder , Trey Parker and Matt Stone made their dispirited - budget feature film debut withCannibal ! The Musical , a darkly comedic retelling of Alferd Packer ’s trip from Utah to Colorado and the travel companions he ate along the way .
Parker and Stone would n’t perfect their idiosyncratic brand of pitch - black comedyuntilSouth Parktook off , butCannibal ! The Musicalshows off early gleaming of their greatness .
Little Shop Of Horrors (1986)
After Alan Menken and Howard Ashman turn over Roger Corman ’s black - and - white horror drollery classicLittle Shop of Horrorsinto an off - Broadway musical of the same name , Frank Oz brought it back to the openhanded covert with color film and musical numbers .
Like the Corman original , it focus on on a blossom shop employee who does the dark bidding of a sentient carnivorous plant life that feed on human blood .
New York, New York (1977)
The first box power bomb of Martin Scorsese ’s life history – 1977’sNew York , New York – made some critics uneasy with the combining of its way ( a nostalgic atavism to glitzy musical theater from the Golden Age of Hollywood ) and its subject matter ( a harrowing relationship play ) .
Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro star as a singer and a saxophonist whose passionate love quickly become bitter . The downfall of their kinship is hard to watch , butScorsese is a master of his craft .
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007)
Tim Burton ’s deep cinematic big - budget film adjustment of Stephen Sondheim ’s repulsion musicalSweeney Sir Alexander Robertus Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Streetstars Johnny Depp as the titular pharynx - slashing Victorian - epoch barber and Helena Bonham Carter as the baker who turns his dupe into pies .
The conductor ’s signature gothic visuals and Depp and Bonham Carter ’s mesmerizing performance brought the musical comedy to life on the big cover .
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Richard O’Brien teamed up with film director Jim Sharman to wreak hisRocky Horrorstage melodic to the big screen . A quintessential homage to sci - fi and repugnance B-complex vitamin - moving picture from the ‘ 30s , ‘ 40s , ‘ 50 , and ‘ 60s , The Rocky Horror Picture Showrevolves around a young couple getting run aground at a mad scientist ’s monster - overrun castle .
In the half - one C since it hit theatre of operations , The Rocky Horror Picture Showhas become one of the cornerstones of rage cinema . To this day , fans regularly dress up as Dr. Frank N. Furter to attend midnight screenings .
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