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Rating: Null/10 (8 August 1999)

I hadn't seen this movie for a long time, so I thought I'd see it again, as I seemed to remember it being pretty good.
I had forgotten how it skilfully portrays the horror of surburban life, with houses in pastel colours, the same routine, over and over again, with no change. Apart from when an Avon lady decides to go to the creepy mansion up on the hill. There she finds a distirbed young man, who has spent years in isolation, with scissors for hands. She takes pity on him, and brings him down to the surburban world, where he is regarded with wonder by all the neighbours. He sculpts animals and such out of bushes, as he did in the mansion, and also turns out to be a nifty hairdresser. But he also has his eyes set on his family's daughter. However, she already has an unpleasant boyfriend, whom she later grows to hate. Edward's innocence unknowingly gets him into trouble, as the locals turn on him, and he goes back to the old mansion, after the death of the boyfriend.
When Edward was sculpting a statue out of ice, and the daughter was dancing in the snowflakes eminating from it, I can say that this is one of the few movies that made me cry. With brilliant cinematography and wonderful sets, I give this a Maud rating of 4 out of 5. Well done, Mr. Burton, on a modern masterpiece.