Boxing Helena (1993)
Directed by Jennifer Lynch
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once rebuffed him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but a horrific accident leaves her at his mercy.
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What critics compared Boxing Helena to
More oblique references could be the dizzyingly strange Ted Post film The Baby (1973), or another Lynchian reference, Boxing Helena (1993), thanks to the late arrival of Lena Dunham as a carnivalesque accent.
Certain plot elements call to mind Jennifer (daughter of David) Lynch’s controversial 1993 feature, Boxing Helena, in which a surgeon amputated first the legs then the arms of the title character (played by a post-Twin Peaks Sherilyn Fenn).
It’s like a romantic comedy turned “Hannibal” by way of “American Psycho” and “Boxing Helena” with a lot of sick puns and slick production.
Or maybe, given the premise, perhaps the movie is a bizarre misfire like Boxing Helena, the infamous film in which Julian Sands keeps chopping the limbs off of Sherilyn Fenn, or I Know Who Killed Me, in which Lindsay Lohan plays a limb-losing stripper?
Often, such blunt examinations of BDSM sex fantasies, while having higher intentions, end up feeling silly, their failure to land the emotional, psychological underpinnings of sexuality landing in camp territory, such as Jennifer Lynch's infamous Boxing Helena (1993).
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Even the âfinal bossâ of the film is a gimp version of Sherilyn Fenn in Boxing Helena crossed with ED-209!
In the years since Last Tango, a brave few have attempted baring their souls with varying results, such as Boxing Helena (1993) and Showgirls (1995) on the low end or Empire of the Senses (1976) and Crash (1996) on the high end.
After that, you're reliving a scene from 127 Hours, a couple of scenes from Boxing Helena, and every last one of the Allison Williams-starring Get Out moments we've come to know and love.
Misleadingly titled Surveillance is Jennifer Lynchs first commercial feature since her hotly debated only other one, the 1993 Boxing Helena.
Jennifer Lynch's Boxing Helena (1993) was so universally loathed that it put the filmmaker -- the daughter of David Lynch -- on some kind of forced hiatus for 16 years.
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Like the captive heroines of "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!," "Blue Velvet" and even "Beauty and the Beast," she becomes emotionally involved with her captor.
Like the captive heroines of "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!," "Blue Velvet" and even "Beauty and the Beast," she becomes emotionally involved with her captor.