6. Boxing Helena (1993)
Dr Nick Cavanaugh (played by Julian Sands) is an incorrigible pervert who is obsessed with Helena (Sherilyn Fenn) - an old flame of his with whom he is still in love. She just happens to be knocked over by a car outside Dr Nick's house. He takes her in and treats her in his own home - discretely amputating both of her legs. Helena is a shrewish character and although he limbs are being chopped off, she constantly ridicules Dr Nick and for her sins, he lops off her arms leaving her as a weird torso with a head attached. Her whacked out boyfriend storms the house and is repelled by the limbless Helena and rejects her. The denouement at the end is both silly and hackneyed. There has been, for the last 20 years, a whole load of opprobrium heaped onto Boxing Helena. The premise is ludicrous but you can't help but enjoy it as a piece of trash. Dr Nick is a Dirty Old Pervert for sure, but in a strange sort of way. He never attempts to have sex with Helena - he is too wimpy. Instead he gets the ultimate kick out of removing her limbs and incapacitating her. This is his 'thing' - a limbless woman. I wish he would have cut out Helena's tongue to stop her bitter yakking. My goodness that woman has a motormouth. And even with all four limbs removed she still natters on. But Sherilyn does a terrific job in portraying Helena, cow that she is. I can't imagine Madonna or Kim Basinger (who both rejected the role and got into poop because of it) in the film, Sherilyn makes it her own and she has Dr Nick as her ever trusty Pervy sidekick.