Edward Scissorhands

Johnny Depp is enormously affecting as the outsider with blades for hands, lost in Tim Burton’s pastel-coloured vision of Suburbia. Showing alongside Burton’s stop-motion ode to Vincent Price.

Edward Scissorhands

A magical modern-day fairy-tale romance and another reinterpretation of Frankenstein, based on a drawing dating back to Burton's teenage years, with his childhood hero Vincent Price as the kindly old inventor who dies before finishing his latest creation (Depp), leaving him alone and with blades for hands. Burton's pastel-coloured vision of suburbia is a thing of joy, while Johnny Depp, in the first of his six Burton roles thus far, brings enormous pathos to a near-silent role.

Vincent

VideoBurton's first professional short, made while he was at Disney, is a strikingly poetic, Caligari-esque stop-motion ode to Vincent Price, who narrates, and to Edgar Allen Poe.

Edward Scissorhands

Directed by:

Tim Burton

Cast:

Johnny Depp, Vincent Price, Winona Ryder, Diane Wiest, Alan Arkin

Country:

USA

Year:

1990

Running time:

105min

Certificate:

PG

Vincent

Directed by:

Tim Burton

Country:

USA

Year:

1983

Running time:

6min