You can't accuse Andy Milligan of being talented and it's quite obvious he's a sloppy filmmaker by the fact of how poorly shot (and badly framed) this early effort is.

The most ambitious thing the film does is plunking murderous barber Sweeney Todd straight out of folklore as one of the main killers in this junky horror flick that has the people of London starting to disappear which turns out to be the work of Todd in cohorts with a local baker who's making special "meat pies".

While this isn't the worst horror movie ever made; the fact that it's so low-budget the production values are nothing more than crude, the acting is for the most part poor and it really doesn't go anywhere (and there's way too much gum-flapping going on) basically makes it only of interest to people looking into Milligan's filmography (and if you're a fan of such B-movie "auteurs" like Ted V. Mikels and H.G. Lewis chances are you're in that group).

It's dull, the musical score gets intrusive early on and there's not enough kills (there's a handful of second rate gore moments here that look to be edited down) but there's still a quite priceless "breast pie" moment and the finale manages to be alright with a few morbid moments and an amusing "cleaver" scene. (Chris Hartley, 5/1/04)

Directed By: Andy Milligan.
Written By: John Borske, Andy Milligan.

Starring: John Miranda, Annabella Wood, Berwick Kaler, Jane Hilary.