Baba Yaga (also known as Kiss Me, Kill Me) is a 1973 psychological erotic thriller directed by Corrado Farina based on the Guido Crepax Valentina comic series.

The subject is Valentina Rosselli, a Milanese photographer, who meets a middle-aged seductress who inexplicably calls herself "Baba Yaga."

After she drives Valentina home, she snatches the clip from her garter belt, saying she needs a personal object from her and that she will return it tomorrow.

[3] Director Corrado Farina had admired Crepax's work, going as far to make a short documentary film Freud a fumetti (1970) which explored his comics.

"[4] Farina decided to explore the fantastical elements of Crepax's comics as opposed to the more erotic overtones.

[4] After finishing the script, Committeri left the project after the release of Marco Bellocchio's Slap the Monster on Page One (1972).

[4] The director initially had wanted the popular Italian singer Ornella Vanoni for the role of Baba Yaga in the film.

[5] Before Baba Yaga's release in Italy, the Italian Board of Censors ordered two cuts: the first being a long shot of De Funes full frontal nudity and the moment where Baker undresses before Valentina.

[7] Brown noted that most of these comments however are brought down to "modish chit-chat" ranging through ideas that Valentina preferred Laurel & Hardy to Jean-Luc Godard.

[10] TV Guide referred to the film as an "exceptionally handsome example of 1970s Italian pop-exploitation filmmaking sweetened by Piero Umilani's lounge-jazz score," and praised Baker's performance, but noted that she was "physically wrong for the role; her elaborate lace-and-beribboned costumes sometimes make her look more like a fleshy Miss Havisham than a sleekly predatory sorceress".