This month marks 25 years since the release of Tim Burton’s wondrously dark film Edward Scissorhands, the story of a soulful boy with scissors for hands, who leaves his isolated mansion in search for his true identity, but is unable to assimilate the outside world. Inspired by the director’s own disaffection towards his suburban youth, the film solidified Burton’s distinctively carnivalesque and freakishly introspective storytelling. From Beetlejuice to…
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