‘Sweeney Todd: Slice & Dice’ sees actor & producer Terry Bird take the lead role for its release on 2 June 2025

‘Sweeney Todd: Slice & Dice’ sees actor & producer Terry Bird take the lead role for its release on 2 June 2025

Introducing Terry Bird – established actor, producer and founder of New Town Films – as his brand-new film Sweeney Todd: Slice & Dice gets its UK debut this June.

Bird, who hails from Essex, has enjoyed a successful career across theatre, TV and film, along with facilitating community-based drama workshops. He has featured in films such as In Fabric, Iron Ivan, Community, Jeepers Creepers: Reborn, and has appeared as a guest artist in many TV shows including Salvage Marines, Not Going Out and People Just Do Nothing. He now takes the lead as Sweeney Todd, in the Victorian set British horror Sweeney Todd: Slice & Dice.

The film is written and directed by Steven M. Smith (The Ghosts of Borley Rectory, Essex Boys: Law of Survival), who is also the founder of Greenway Entertainment, and is produced by Terry Bird (Grand Isle, Born to Be Blue).

Although set in the 1800s, Sweeney Todd: Slice & Dice has themes that mirror today’s society, such as the cost of living, the importance of family and the cycle of exploitation in plain sight. It co-stars rising star Alexander Simkin (Gladiator II) as Sergeant Babwitch and British Independent Film Award-winning Down’s syndrome actor Steven Brandon (My Feral Heart) in the role of Tobias.

The film is dedicated to Terry Bird’s friend, British actor Darren Kent (Game of Thrones, Snow White and The Huntsman and Eastenders), who recently passed away. Bird said: “Darren inspired me to produce this film”. Speaking further on factors for commencing production he said: “The UK film industry had been very quiet and many of my friends had been struggling to find work, so we were very keen to shoot something new and brought our individual skills together to collaborate on this film”.

Sweeny Todd: Slice & Dice Synopsis:

1846 Victorian London, Sweeney Todd is a successful barber, but he is forever haunted by the devastating loss of his parents at the hands of a cruel Judge. Now he vows to seek his revenge. One night, he saves Tobias, a young man with Down’s syndrome from a beating, which leads to a friendship with the man’s surrogate mother, local baker, Mrs. Lovett.

She too has also suffered a devastating miscarriage of justice by the same judge and his corrupt associates. Todd and Lovett make a pact, and it is her that leads the charge in wreaking a bloody revenge – in the most macabre of ways.

Sweeney Todd: Slice & Dice arrives on digital and DVD on 2 June, released by Kaleidoscope Film Distribution

DVD is available to pre-order now online and will also be available to buy in stores