Member review

I love this film as it is funny and interesting and reflects how prejudice is used when people group together to overcome there fears of the new and strange. It also shows how easy it is to influence someone's mind. the director has used amazing special effects that boggle the mind. the actors are also wondrous including the great actor Jonny Depp and Vincent Price. These actors/actresses use their amazing skill with words to create a complex and astounding world and a place you could only imagine in your dreams.

An elderly woman tells her granddaughter a bedtime story of where snow comes from, by telling her the story of a young man named Edward who has scissors for hands. As the creation of an old Inventor, Edward was a human-like boy who had everything except for hands. The Inventor suffered a fatal heart attack and died before he could give hands to Edward.

Local Avon saleswoman Peg Boggs visits the decrepit Gothic mansion on the hill where Edward lives. She finds Edward alone - at first startled, but, upon realizing he means well and is virtually harmless, takes him to her home. Edward becomes friends with Peg's young son Kevin and her husband Bill. He later falls in love with the Boggs' beautiful teenage daughter Kim, despite her initial fear of him.

Peg's neighbours are impressed by Edward's adept hedge-trimming and hair-cutting skills, though an eccentric religious fanatic named Esmeralda and Kim's overbearing boyfriend Jim are fearful and contemptuous of him. Joyce, an ageing, unfaithful housewife in the Boggs' neighbourhood, has become fascinated with Edward and suggests that Edward open a hair-cutting salon with her.