What do you think of when you think of a Tim Burton movie? His movies have always had a larger-than-life feeling, whether they depict evil Martians invading the Earth, the Caped Crusader defending Gotham, or two ghosts trying to haunt their house’s new residents. But in 1990, Tim Burton traded his extravagant aesthetic for what could be his smallest movie ever — and it’s definitely his most beautiful and underrated. It deserves to be a Christmas classic as much as The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Edward Scissorhands is probably so magical because it’s when Burton started working with the actor who would become his go-to star, Johnny Depp. In the movie, Depp plays Edward, a humanoid android created by a mysterious Inventor (Vincent Price) who slowly made him more and more human, but passed away before he was able to finish the hands, leaving Edward with just a combination of blades and scissors.
