Boxing Helena

I hate these movies where the whole movie turns out to be a dream sequence. The movie should have been good. It's theme is strong. A man "boxing" a woman he is obsessed with. Unfortunately, the directors of this film lost... Full review

Jennifer Chambers Lynch's 'Boxing Helena' feels like an outdated, insipid, almost soft-core (and a bad one at that) movie. In spite of having a supposedly 'disturbing' theme (which didn't effect me at all), the film is incredibly boring. The awful... Full review

No matter what anyone says about this movie, this movie is specifically made for certain individuals. No, not freaks, there are those of us that can see the love story and lesson in this movie. Sherilyn Fenn is a true venus... Full review

This is the worst movie my husband and I have ever seen! How anyone can come up with this idea and actually sell it to someone is beyond me.... Full review

No matter what anyone says about this movie, this movie is specifically made for certain individuals. No, not freaks, there are those of us that can see the love story and lesson in this movie. Sherilyn Fenn is a true venus... Full review

The fact that this movie may have recieved bad reviews as I saw prior to my review. I don't give a f--k what about their reviews. This movie the best movie of its kind, not only because I am a big... Full review

Yes, this was definitely the worst movie I've ever seen. Wouldn't recommend it, even to kill some time. Stupid, boring, the word horrible is all I can think of.... Full review

Yes, this was definitely the worst movie I've ever seen. Wouldn't recommend it, even to kill some time. Stupid, boring, the word horrible is all I can think of.... Full review

What is the greatest possible extreme that happens when somebody is so hopelessly infatuated with another person. Thats what this movie is all about. I think it is an experiment to the extreme a person is willing to go to covet... Full review

This film is certainly disturbing, but I like movies that explore the darker areas of the human psyche. Above all, it is memorable. I secretly watched it once when I was maybe 13, and could easily remember it 10 years later.... Full review

There are some interesting ideas around the edges of all this, and Lynch has a good visual sense. Writer-director Jennifer Lynch has made a movie that attempts dark comedy and horror but which instead merely seems simplistic, dull-witted and misogynistic. ... Full Review

Helena (Sherilyn Fenn) is a classic castrater, a bitch goddess who is as selfish as she is voluptuous. The nut, they say, falls close to the tree, which seems to be the case with Jennifer Chambers Lynch, whose first film, "Boxing Helena," rivals her father David's own twisted meditations on abusive sex. ... Full Review

With a few more scenes like this, "Helena" might have been salvageable as a so-bad-it's-good camp goof -- if only it weren't so boring. A two-hour stink bomb, "Boxing Helena" is a pitifully pervy piece of work that would have marred even your less-than-brilliant career. ... Full Review

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Jennifer Lynch returns to the director's chair for the first time since giving us 1993's unspeakable Boxing Helena. If the first film was about a woman lacking limbs, her follow-up is a film lacking any redeeming features. ... Full Article

UK, October 15, 2008 - Washing my hands in the hotel bathroom, I looked in the mirror and glimpsed a zombie's rotting face as it entered the door behind me. ... Full Article

U.S. Distributor: Orion Classics Dr. Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands) is obsessed with Helena (Sherilyn Fenn), a woman with whom he had a brief affair. For her part, Helena feels nothing but disdain for Nick, and shows it at every possible... ... Full Article

In this stylized art film, which marked the directorial debut of second-generation filmmaker Jennifer Chambers Lynch, a surgeon with a mommy fixation and a problem with premature ejaculation grows obsessed with a vivacious young libertine, to the detriment of her... ... Full Article