Jennifer Chambers Lynch directs this darkly absurd love story. Dr. Nick Cavanaugh(Julian Sands)is a surgeon who becomes dangerously obsessed with a tramp of a vamp Helena(Sherilyn Fenn)that has ended a brief affair and desires to move on. The "love sick" doc lures Helena back to his home for one last chance to woo her. His romantic overture causes the winsome Helena to race from the house and into the street where she is run down by a truck. Not wanting to lose his love goddess to a hospital, Dr. Nick scoops up Helena and takes her back to his home lab where he amputates her arms and legs in order to keep her captive and under his control... his own trophy in a wheelchair.
The beautiful Fenn was not the first choice to play Helena. Kim Basinger would be found guilty and financially punished for backing out of a verbal agreement to play the part in this weird love story. Director Jennifer Lynch did not shy away from borrowing her father's(David Lynch)bizarre and unconventional style.
The beautiful Fenn was not the first choice to play Helena. Kim Basinger would be found guilty and financially punished for backing out of a verbal agreement to play the part in this weird love story. Director Jennifer Lynch did not shy away from borrowing her father's(David Lynch)bizarre and unconventional style.