One of the darkest musicals ever written, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a dark tale set in Victorian London. It follows the life of a barber who returns home to London after fifteen years of exile to take revenge on the villainous judge who ruined his life. When revenge eludes him, Sweeney turns into a murderous monster and swears vengeance on the entire human race, killing as many people as he can, while his business associate Mrs. Lovett bakes the bodies into meat pies and sells them to the unsuspecting public.