I Wouldn’t Touch That Pie, if I Were You
Charles IsherwoodDecember 13, 2011: The torture-porn movie business has an ancient and revered progenitor in the immortal Shakespeare himself. His early tragedy “Titus Andronicus” is a careering pileup of gothic horrors in which great ingenuity is shown in the matter of violent murder. Heads and hands are lopped off at regular intervals; the body count practically defies computation; and the finale is a banquet that only the meat-pie-making Mrs. Lovett of “Sweeney Todd” could love.
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