jmrecillas-83435 Boxing Helena is a poor made film that deserves all the critics that has been send to its credit, but its a decent debut by a 25th young Jennifer Lynch, specially if you consider she starts her career as film director and screen writer as someone who has explore fetichism and depravation on human relations and has achieved at least one masterpiece of suspense and horror on his 2012 film Chained, an impressive low budget film on bondage and crime.However, this is an acceptable debut on a very cliché story on which male voyeurism and fetichism developes not so bad, but not to make this a memorable film, except by the very kitsch use of Sadness by Enigma, and Woman in chains, by Tears for fears, to ilustrate the erotic desire of the male character of the film. This piece of industrial music-garbage make the highest point in the film and remember the crappy musical videos from the eighties that flooded TV screens back in the day, and some usual classical music to add better atmospheric mood than what msrs. Lynch useless tryes to build on tape, who tries to emulate his father, David, whom she has worked on Blue Velvet (1986), making some explorations on themes look alike his.The film is, in my opinion, a good first step of mrs. Lynch trying to make her way, and shows some good details that will be more professionally build up in future films. In that sense I think this is a film that deserves a better rating among movie lovers, and that's why I rate with a six, because its up average films of this type. More in addition to her credit is that she is 25 years old at the time she is filming her first movie, while her female star, Sherilyn Fenn, has 28.

jessbaxter-87899 This is one of my favourite films of all time! It may be because I first watched it with my best friend at 14years old and thought, at the time, it was outrageous! Very complex really, we would watch it over and over again and discuss it, deeply. Now it could be that it was this film that bonded me and my best friend (now of nearly 20 years!) but even if this is the case, I highly recommend this film as one to watch with someone who enjoys a deep and meaningful debate about almost all aspects of life and social and personal acceptance.The movie is nuts but addictive and 15 years later, no longer had vhs player, found it on dvd on eBay, ordered it, watched it and it took me back. It's waged a lot and not sure if the acting is at its best but still love it as a classic now!Must see to believe and watch again to discuss and then again to realise and then once more to get it and love it!!

gavin6942 A surgeon (Julian Sands) becomes obsessed with the seductive woman (Sherilyn Fenn) he once was in an affair with. Refusing to accept that she has moved on, he amputates her limbs and holds her captive in his mansion.After receiving an NC-17 rating by the MPAA, the film was given an R-rating on appeal and released in the United States in September 1993, but received critical backlash and was a financial failure. Gene Siskel was one of the film's few defenders, writing, "I went to the theater to see it expecting the worst," and he called it, "a brave little movie that explored the provocative issue of how some frustrated men channel their inability to love a woman into cruelty." Genre fans might like it, because of the familiar faces -- Sands, Fenn and Bill Paxton. It does suffer from having no one really likable in the plot, and a few twists that may not sit well with some people.

SnoopyStyle Dr. Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands) was raised to be a surgeon. He's a top surgeon and a bit peculiar. His mother dies and he decides to move back into the family mansion. He is still obsessed with Helena (Sherilyn Fenn) whom he slept with once a long time ago and she knows it. She's a wild party girl going out with douche Ray O'Malley (Bill Paxton). Nick's girlfriend Anne Garrett sees the obsession and has a fight with him. He tricks Helena to his home and she runs off into the street. Her legs are crushed in a hit-and-run. He performs amputations and keeps her in his home. Dr. Alan Harrison (Kurtwood Smith) comes looking and Nick gives him the chief of surgery position. After more near-misses and constant resistance from Helena, Nick amputates her arms.Jennifer Chambers Lynch shows that her directing skill is at a TV movie level. With the ending, she shows that she doesn't have the guts to push all the way. It's all a dream and it's a cop out. Julian Sands is good at being a creep and in this one, he's a pathetic creep. Sherilyn Fenn is a beauty. The movie should look and feel much darker. Instead it feel cheesy and a bit campy.