Episode 250: Boxing Helena (1993)

Special Guest: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Guest Co-Host: Heather Drain & Cecil Trachenberg

Obsession comes to the fore in Jennifer Chambers Lynch's controversial 1993 film Boxing Helena wherein Dr. Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands) aspires to win the love and approval of the titular Helena (Sherilyn Fenn).

Mike's joined by "Mondo" Heather Drain and Good Bad Flicks' Cecil Trachenberg to discuss amputation, women in peril, and Bill Paxton's leather pants.

Links:
Buy Boxing Helena on DVD
Buy The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer by Jennifer Lynch
Follow Jennifer Lynch on Instagram
Read a really smarmy review of Boxing Helena
Read The creepy fantasies that inspired John Fowles’ novel ‘The Collector’ by Paul Gallagher
Visit the Mondo Heather website
Visit Good Bad Flicks

Music:
Original Soundtrack - Graeme Revell
"Carcass" - Siouxsie & The Banshees
"The Collector" - The Everly Brothers
"Girl in a Box" - Blake Babies
"Secret" - Enigma

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