This was a strange one.

I wasn’t quite sure to expect when I dialed up “Nurse” on Amazon Prime. The preview made it look like a riff on the obsessive character motif seen in films like “Single White Female” and “Fatal Attraction”. But what I got was more like a cheese-ball update of sexy 70s Russ Meyer films, mixed with Tarantino levels of violence. This film is gratuitous, both in blood spurtin’ and panty droppin’.

The plot largely follows the baddie, a nurse played by Paz De La Huerta, who has a fetish for killing cheating men (because of, you got it, Daddy issues.) But she also develops a close friendship with a new nurse in her ward.

One problem is that the film never quite settled into one character’s POV, instead switching between the main nurse and her protegee. This can work, it just wasn’t done well here.

It’s also one of those films that purports to be a feminine rage flick, but there’s so much objectification of women that it doesn’t add up. I wish directors would just drop the act.

Despite all that and a few other structural flaws, I actually enjoyed the film and would even call it memorable. It’s mainly because Paz De La Huerta is a very compelling presence. She plays her character in a peculiar way here—speaking slowly, always narrowing her eyes in a look of disgust. A bit of research reveals she was injured making the film and sued the filmmakers for ruining her career. But I also get the sense she’s a pretty erratic personality, so it’s hard to know what’s true.

Both Kathleen Turner and Judd Nelson have small roles.

I’ve seen “Nurse” panned online, but I would actually say it deserves some kind of cult film status (though perhaps culture has moved past the idea of cult films.) I would watch it again (in a few years).

Oh, and get this—the film was originally presented in 3D.

Ironically, my viewing of “Nurse” was interrupted by an advertisement for an actual nursing degree program. Real nursing looks quite different.