爱德华（约翰尼-德普饰）是被一个生活在古堡里的发明家制造出来的机器人。发明家教会他人类的很多东西，但是还没等爱德华彻底完工，发明家就去世了，爱德华虽然拥有人类的智慧，但是他的外表却残留着一双剪刀手。后来一个化妆品推销员佩格（黛安娜-韦斯特饰）发现了爱德华，并将他带回自己的家。爱德华的出现，给佩格那些空虚无聊的闺蜜带来了快乐。而爱德华用自己的剪刀手帮人们修建树枝、头发，颇受大家的欢迎。此时爱德华遇到一件让自己痛苦的事，他爱上佩格的女儿金（薇诺娜-瑞德饰），但是金已有男友，并且对爱德华并无好感。金让爱德华潜入男友父亲的豪宅，后被警察逮捕，最后因为他心智不全被假释。但是小镇上的人们却开始远离他和金一家，在这过程中，金看清男友的真实面目，对爱德华产生了好感。最后爱德华在古堡的打斗中杀死金恶毒的男友，金接受了爱德华的爱情，不过爱德华最终选择远离人群

Edward (Johnny Depp) is a robot created by an inventor living in an old castle. The inventor taught him many things about human beings, but the inventor passed away before Edward could complete his work. Although Edward possessed human wisdom, his appearance still had a pair of scissor hands. Later, a cosmetics salesman, Pegg (Diana West), found Edward and took him back to his home. The appearance of Edward brought happiness to Peg's empty and boring girlfriends. And Edward used his own scissors to help people trim branches and hair, which was very popular with everyone. At this time, Edward encountered a painful thing for himself. He fell in love with Peg's daughter Jin (Winona Ryder), but Jin already had a boyfriend and did not like Edward. King let Edward sneak into her boyfriend's father's mansion, was arrested by the police, and was finally released on parole because of his insanity. But people in the small town began to stay away from him and the Jin family. In the process, Jin saw the true face of her boyfriend and developed a good impression of Edward. In the end, Edward killed Jin's vicious boyfriend in a fight in the castle, and Jin accepted Edward's love, but Edward finally chose to stay away from the crowd