Baba Yaga (1973)

[Drunk Monk]

“You know Baba Yaga...?”

I don’t really. I mean I’ve read the wiki and that about it. BY comes up in Ant-Man & John Wick so I thought watching this might help. It didn’t.

This is an Italian gothic horror with plenty of gratuitous toplessness. It’s very 70s with odd music choices and fashion, artsy clips of grainy B&W stills to represent sex scenes, and that meandering pace as filmmakers struggle to be groovy. Was the 70s really like that? I dunno - I was 9 when this came out. 

A photographer chick name Valentina who shots a lot of topless models and is often topless herself saves a random dog with an unusual mark on its head from being run over. The mysterious woman says it’s fate that they met so and gives her a ride home taking her to her address without asking where she lives. She calls herself Baba Yaga.

The spooky stuff increases when V visits BY’s creepy mansion and gets gifted a creepy doll dressed like a dom. She becomes a real gal, dressed like a dom, whose only purpose is to stand around topless. There’s also a bottomless pit in the mansion, a cat, and a caged monkey.

There’s some bondage flogging. There’s a sword that a topless model holds for a topless costume shoot.

Not D00M recommended (although I imagine an unreliable narrator might expound upon this film in a more entertaining g fashion)

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

If only we knew where to find a narrator who is less than reliable.

[Greg]

The Baba Yaga lives in the house that walks.

[cranefly]

I'm very impressed that DM used topless so many times in his review, and with the typical anatomical meaning, and then he pulls a fast one and uses bottomless in a totally unexpected way.

DM is edging dangerously close to unreliable.

[Drunk Monk]

So much toplessness.

Even the caged monkey was topless.

And it was decent toplessness for the seventies...