Baba Yaga (1973)

Walking home in the early hours of the morning after a late night out, a Milanese photographer (Isabelle De Funes) encounters a mysterious woman (Carroll Baker). The enigmatic woman says their meeting was preordained and soon after, strange occurrences begin to happen in the photographer's life. Based the long running Italian comic strip Valentina (1965 to 1996) by Guido Crepax and directed by Corrado Farina. Filled with Nazi and S&M imagery, the film seems an attempt at balancing horror with eroticism and failing at both. In the late 60s and early 70s, Carroll Baker appeared in a lot of Eurotrash but unlike this movie, those were often surprisngly entertaining. This one doesn't seem to have a point of view or focus. The lovely Isabelle De Funes has a great face for movies but little else (well, there is that body). To be fair to Farina, his film was cut (apparently all the socio-political elements) by almost 30 minutes without his permission but we can only judge the end result. With George Eastman and Ely Galleani.