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Title: Baba Yaga (2003)
Format: DVD
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Starring: Carroll Baker, George Eastman, Isabelle De Funès, Ely Galleani, and Daniela Balzaretti
Director: Corrado Farina
Rating: Unrated
Runtime: 91 minutes
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• Posted on 2009-01-22
  Suspira meets Blowup
  
  Classic euro trash camp: People moving their mouths out of sync with words...check. Lots of interesting visuals from another time period...check. Tantalizing plot with occasional nudity...check. Worth every penny. Caroll Baker (Babydoll) is the mysterious 'Baba Yaga' and George Eastman is such a hottie! Delizioso! Weird alert for this great Italian film is the dominatrix doll...huh? And the spell placed on Valentina's camera. Just pure fun with film.
  
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• Posted on 2008-02-08
  Unique and Strange
  
  Corrado Farina's 1973 feature Baba Yaga (aka Kiss Me Kill Me) is a strange piece of 1970's filmmaking. It is neither a horror film nor the typical Italian erotic Eurotrash that were popular at the time, though the film has elements of both genres.
  
  The story concerns fashion photographer Valentina Roselli (Isabelle de Funes)and her attempted seduction by a witch, Baba Yaga (Carroll Baker). The film is based on the adult comic strip Valentina by Guido Crepax. The film's editing and photography are surprisingly faithful to the strip especially in the dream sequences.
  
  Unfortunately, the script is somewhat uneven and the story has been censored a good deal. The result of the cutting is that the film is a little hard to follow.
  
  The presentation by Blue Underground provides an excellent transfer with decent mono sound. The film is dubbed into English. The extras are worth watching. There is an interview with Farina; a short concerning the Crepax comic strip; a trailer, and some unrestored deleted scenes. There is also an Easter egg featuring Tinto Brass.
  
  This is worth owning if one is a fan of the genre.
  
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• Posted on 2007-12-12
  spooky old-fashioned late night movie
  
  This review refers to the St Clair Vision release of "Kiss Me Kill Me"....
  Valentina is a successful Italian fashion photographer who walking home one night after a party comes upon a helpless dog in the street surrounded by candles and with a curious marking on its forehead.
  Within moments a long black car pulls up and as an eerie piano piece is heard on the soundtrack, out from the car steps a woman dressed all in black and speaks with the photographer.
  Valentina, shaken by the dog and this mysterious woman agrees to be driven home by her.
  But Valentina continues to feel uneasy as the woman states that their meeting was "preordained".
  Arriving at Valentina's home the woman turns to her and says "Don't forget my name. My name is Baba Yaga". The name Baba Yaga means witch in Russian folklore.
  And forget her name she will not for Valentina is haunted that very night by a nightmare wherein she dreams she is held captive by several Nazi soldiers one of whom cradles a cat in his arms and instructs the ones holding Valentina to lead her to a black hole in the ground and just as she is about to be dropped in she wakes up.
  The next day Valentina is back to work shooting a model but someone is at the door. Valentina has an unsettling sixth sense it is the strange woman she met the night before. And it is. Baba Yaga comes in and invites Valentina to her home. Valentina notices the woman caressing her camera in a curious fashion and is asked for a personal piece of clothing which she takes for herself, reaching up Valentina's leg to snap off a garter hook which she toyingly brings to her lips.
  The next day, after a disturbing incident involving Valentina's camera and a model she is shooting, Valentina reluctantly pays Baba Yaga a call at her home. It is a very spooky house that Valentina finds herself approaching-shuttered windows, tall gate and walls, and once inside finds Baba Yaga sitting in the dark in her rocking chair stroking the cat in her arms-just as the foreboding Nazi had done in her nightmare.
  Baba Yaga encourages Valentina to walk freely about the old home with her camera to photograph whatever she would like and it is then that Valentina discovers a deep dark hole right in the middle of the floor-also just like in her dream. The ticking clock on the wall has no hands on its face.
  Up in the attic Valentina sees a doll and is overcome with another strange erotic dream/spell that is broken when Baba Yaga reaches the attic. The doll is given to Valentina and is told to always keep it nearby.
  From this point on the movie continues its suspenceful path with which I do not want to completely give away.
  But I must mention the excellent music throughout the film and the chilling performance of Carroll Baker.
  
  
  
  
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• Posted on 2005-12-23
  The cast is totally wrong
  
  If you are looking for Kiss Me Kill Me with Stella Stevens and Bruce Boxleitner, this is NOT IT. Both Blockbuster and Amazon have the wrong cast for this movie version. This KMKM is an Italian Fetish movie, not exactly what I was looking for. The KMKM version starring Boxleitner and Stevens has never been made into a retail version.
  
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• Posted on 2005-12-22
  Surprisingly cool "experimental" horror art film - a real cinematic find
  
  This is not your typical horror movie by any stretch of the imagination. It is more likely to appeal to fans of Fellini's more extravagant works, of Antonioni or Nic Roeg. Plot involves a stylish young fashion photographer who attracts the attention of a creepily stylish witch (Carroll Baker looking like a beautiful reanimated corpse). Yes, the key word is STYLE. Director Corrado Farina is a director of the first order. His camera savors every image, intercut in a myriad of textures to create a fluid montage of erotic and disturbing imagery. Horror fans might find this an interesting curiosity but film lovers should appreciate it on a much higher level. Like Donald Cammell-Nic Roeg's "Performance" this film exploits the nature of cinema masterfully, transcending its purported genre. Its use of solarized desaturated stills predates the famous "Aha" video by two decades, and much more artfully. Farina sensuously assaults you with his imagery, moving from pop to Goth to pure art in the wink of an eye. If any of this sounds even vaguely tempting, dig up a copy and treat yourself to a slice of cinematic heaven. Sadly, like the equally brilliant and iconoclastic Donald Cammell, Farina seems to have been grossly under-appreciated in his time, yielding only a few films as his legacy.
  
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