Baba Yaga (1973) on Netflix

A photographer finds herself falling under the spell of a witch.

Strange things have been happening to Valentina, a young and beautiful professional photographer, ever since she made the acquaintance of Baba Yaga, a mysterious older woman who gave her a lift home late one night. For one thing, Valentina has been having weird, kinky nightmares. For another, one of Valentina's cameras seems to have acquired a deadly curse. And then there was that visit to Baba Yaga's house, where Valentina discovered bizarre relics, including a dominatrix doll, and a bottomless pit in the living room. Valentina comes to realize that Baba Yaga is a witch who is out to possess her - body and soul.

—Eugene Kim <genekim@concentric.net>

In Milan, the professional photographer Valentina Rosselli takes a ride close to her home with two friends in a party and decides to walk alone in the middle of the night. She saves a dog from a fancy car driver by Baba Yaga , a mysterious older woman that insists to drive her home. From this moment on, the life of Valentina changes and she has nightmares and her camera seem to be cursed. She believes Baba Yaga is a witch and that she is under a spell to possess her but her skeptical friend and filmmaker Arno Treves does not believe. Until the day Valentina visits Baba Yaga's house.

—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Having a knack for capturing the public's imagination with her controversial, sexually provocative work, trendy photographer Valentina Rosselli is on top of her game. However, when unsuspecting Valentina has a late-night chance encounter with the mysterious temptress Baba Yaga, a vivid, labyrinthine world of bizarre erotic dreams, sadism, and sapphic seduction will blur the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Now, fate and forbidden S&M desires govern Valentina's life. Is the beautiful, sexy artist already under the witch's spell?

—Nick Riganas