Boxing Helena (1993)
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Directed by: Jennifer Lynch
Starring: Sherilyn Fenn (Helena), Julian Sands (Dr. Nick Cavanaugh), Betsy Clark (Anne), Meg Register (Mother), Bill Paxton (Ray), Kurtwood Smith (Dr. Alan), Art Garfunkel (Dr. Lawrence)
Country: USA
Language: English (Optional Eng Subs)
Runtime: 01:45:19
Plot/Genres – Spoilers:
A successful surgeon Nick has plain Anne, but craves ravishing Helena – a woman he clumsily slept with once, and whose promiscuity brings back fond memories of his mother. So he decides to keep Helena.
Genres: Body Modification, Captivity-Kidnapping, Voyeur
More thoughts – Massive Spoilers
If it all were just a dream, that would be a sensible way to avoid all the nitty-gritties of reality. How does Helena look when she wakes up and her hair hasn’t been done perfectly. Is she still attractive to Nick when he’s helping her take a shit – assuming he’s not into shit.
There’s a nice detail of Helena’s head propped up by a pillow. But in Nick’s world, the visual perfection of a limbless Helena surrounded by beautiful flowers would most likely be offset by such seemingly minor, nodding realities.
Pretty good!Thank you Eum.
This movie was pretty bad. Hopefully, she improved as a filmmaker.
She did. Check out Chained and, Security.
or is it Surveillance?
Surveillance! I haven’t seen it yet but agree that Chained was good.
She was pretty young when she wrote the movie, so it’s no surprise that it didn’t turn out so well.
She has a nice growler.
never trust the british
I didn’t expect that ending though. Despite being promiscuous as she is, it seems like Helena is still hungry for more extreme obsession/captivity play. Maybe that’s the horror of the story. idk. I think it would be also interesting if she approaches Nick with that mindset after her accident. Yandere x Yandere? Then the sexy scenes could be used to create some horror tension or creepy built-up for the characters instead of brushing it off as romance.
I actually thought this movie was a pretty good Sherilyn Fenn was really beautiful in this movie