Product Details

• Actors: Carroll Baker, Erika Blanc, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle DeFunes, George Eastern
• Directors: Umberto Lenzi
• Format: NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Miracle Pictures
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002Y5QOY
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #134,447 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The film is scary, kinky, sexual, funny and weird. Carroll Baker plays a witch who is out to possess a young and beautiful professional photographer. Offbeat and bizarre, Kiss Me, Kill Me should be viewed.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just do not buy this, September 20, 2002

By	Alberto Farina "Alberto Farina" (Milano, Italy) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Kiss Me, Kill Me (DVD)

This is hardly a priceless advice, since this DVD seems to be out of print. However, I suggest not buying this edition and go for the deluxe edition by Blue UndergroundBaba Yaga. Just so you know, this film is actually Corrado Farina's cult "Baba Yaga". I've seen this copy and you shouldn't trust it, as it's literally mistake-packed edition. Umberto Lenzi has NOTHING to do with this film, the aspect ratio is not respected (the film is horribly maimed by pan&scan). The Blue Underground edition features juicy extras such as the never-before-seen scenes originally cut from Italian censorship, plus about 10 minutes of stuff cut prior to first release (featuring Italian popstar Franco Battiato!) a lenghty interview with Farina himself, a vintage documentary by Farina on Guido Crepax (the author of the comic book on which the film is based) and even an easter egg with Tinto Brass. And the screen ratio is respected.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Significant Misrepresentation, May 4, 2005

By	Bertholt (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kiss me, kill me (DVD)

I thought I'd just let everyone know, that this is actually a copy of a film called Baba Yaga (1972), directed by Corrado Farina, and while it does star Caroll Baker, Umberto Lenzi, Erika Blanc and Jean Louis Trintignant are nowhere to be found. There is a release of Baba Yaga available through Blue Underground which I would recommend over this version.

The film Kiss Me Kill Me is the American title of Cosě Dolce... Cosě Perversa (1969) directed by Umberto Lenzi, a film I've not seen, but have been interested in finding ever since happening upon a CD of the beautiful Riz Otorlani score.

An amusing side note here is that I'm not even sure that this is the soundtrack to Cosě Dolce... Cosě Perversa, as I recently saw Lenzi's Seven Bloodstained Orchids (Sette Orchidee Macchiate Di Rosso-1972) which featured most of the same music on this CD. Lenzi might have simply reused Ortolani's score from a film he had made three years earlier, or perhaps the CD I purchased was mislabeled...much in the same manner as the Kiss Me Kill Me DVD. Curious.

The confusing packaging offers the proper credits for Cosě Dolce..., but is illustrated with still images from Baba Yaga. My guess is that the distributor is unaware of their error, and that the common denominator of Caroll Baker resulted in the confusion.


This DVD is released by Miracle Pictures. "If it's the film you asked for...it's a Miracle."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bore me., May 18, 2003

By	Robert Cossaboon "devil doll" (The happy land of Walworth, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Kiss Me, Kill Me (DVD)

Unlike most Italian horror movies of the seventies which were notorious for some of their almost incomprehensible plot lines, this movie has a plot you could connect with the dots. This is not necessarilly saying a bad thing, but in this film's case, a simplistic plot of a lesbian witch trying to control a young woman via a doll and a cursed camera needed some bolstering through either some inspired acting or some kickbutt special effects. Sadly the dearth of both is painfully obvious in this film. To give Corrado Farina his due, however, his witch movie anticipated Argento's brilliant Suspiria by more than five years. Some of the same elements are in this film: creepy dream sequences, almost psychedelic flashbacks (and flashforwards!) and some inspired lighting in Baba Yaga's house. Isabelle De Funes is passable as Valentina, a player who is played by someone more expert-the lesbian witch, Baba Yaga. Lose the close-ups on her doe eyes, and keep her clothes on and I have to wonder how magnetic she still wouldn't have been. The hero, Arno, is so stereotypically macho that you will pray for his death half-way through the movie. The witch, played by Caroll Baker, could have stood for more fleshing out. Surely, keeping a dominatrix doll, cursing a camera, and concealing a gateway to hell on the first floor of your home begs a little insight into some motivation! Much of this problem may be due to the editing of the version I saw, which may have rendered parts of the film nearly nonsensical; like, for instance, why Baba Yaga is even bothering to waste her time on Valentina at all-it isn't for sexual reasons. The strengths of the movie are in Corrado Farina's frenzied direction. His blend of dream sequences, flashbacks and flashforwards (not to mention a very catchy title sequence!) Is the true reason to ride this movie out until the end.