The brilliantly twisted musical Sweeney Todd is out on DVD starting tomorrow, April 1st! In case you missed my opening-day review of this film here is an excerpt and link to the post on Fear Zone…


When I was in 6th grade my math teacher, whom shall remain nameless because I still fear she will one day escape from the asylum where she is locked and kill me with the calculator she always threw at my head when I answered questions wrong, was obsessed with musicals. The sad fact of the matter is that she was actually, in her youth, a Broadway actress, but something, which she would not disclose to her 12 year old audience, went terribly wrong somewhere along the line. Thus, decades later, she found herself in a tiny elementary school classroom lined with paper cut outs of dancing, smiling numbers and disinterested, fidgety youths on the verge of hormonal adolescence. Her solution to her obvious hatred towards her fate: Force the 5th and 6th graders to perform a musical each year. I was lucky enough to get to be put through two excruciating performances during my career at that particular elementary school due to an unexpected surge in lethal enthusiasm on her part. Ah, yes, I remember my debuts well…a singing nun in the Sound of Music , a Pink Lady in Grease , and all the while absolutely terrified for my life. Why you may ask? Because this woman lived for these performances and we danced and sang under the penalty of death or worse, humiliation in front of our entire class! Oh, and how she loved me most of all for I was the poor chubby kid with the terrible ’80s hairdo that could actually sing. Practice and practice and practice I did, sing my heart out like I was up for an Oscar, only to feel the breeze and hear the THUMP of the calculator as it was hurled at me during practice while the fragile little lead forgot all her lines as she stood in her new Keds and pink bow. The last I heard, years later, of that adorable math teacher was they eventually hauled her away in a straight jacket after someone blamed a bomb threat on her. Ah, the memories!… CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE!


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Tags: Fear Zone, Horror, Johnny Depp, Movies, Reviews, Sweeney Todd

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