Ruby

R

Released Jun 23, 1977

1h 24m

Horror

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57%

Tomatometer

7 Reviews

10%

Audience Score

Fewer than 50 Ratings

A woman with a shady past, Ruby Claire (Piper Laurie) is the single mother of Leslie (Janit Baldwin), a teenager who is deaf and mute. Ruby operates a drive-in movie theater and employs a number of ex-criminals, some of who start to die in bizarre ways. Eventually, Ruby discovers that the spirit of her dead mobster husband has possessed Leslie and is seeking revenge through the tormented girl. As Leslie picks off her dad's former associates, she also begins to target Ruby herself.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Dick Bartlett's Ruby is one of the most bizarre films I've ever seen, and one of the funniest, and one of the saddest.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jun 15, 2018

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Rene Jordan

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Ruby wants to be so many things at once that it ends up lacking a defined identity. [Full review in Spanish]

Aug 22, 2023

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Augusto Martínez Torres

El Pais (Spain)

Aside from its humorous moments, Curtis Harrington never achieves a story attractive enough to overcome its contradictions. [Full Review in Spanish]

Aug 6, 2019

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

No matter how flawed, the horror pic is always watchable.

Rated: B-

Dec 25, 2014

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Jul 19, 2005

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Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Effective horror film from an underrated specialist in the genre.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 16, 2003

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Audience Member

I created a Rotten Tomatoes account just to write this review. I can't believe this movie has an 80% on here. Don't believe these goofball critics - Ruby is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Young mute daughter starts speaking in the voice of her father, who was murdered 16 years earlier in a mob hit. Several former mobsters at the girl's mom's legitimate drive-in business die in mysterious deaths. A paranormal psychologist tries to piece the phenomena together. Scenes copied from The Exorcist added to the entertainment value.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Paranormal activity surrounds a Florida drive-in where a mobster was executed in a nearby swamp and returns for revenge using his now 16 year old daughter as a medium. It seems strange that Ruby hires her boyfriend's killers to help out at the drive-in after they get out of prison. Borrows elements liberally from THE EXORCIST toward the end. United VHS release disappointingly features the tv version with conversational scenes replacing those with violence.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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atmospheric horror not as generic as the standard for the genre,nice touches throughout loved the scene with ruby being whispered over the speaker system in the empty drive in,Piper Laurie is as Bananas as usual

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Audience Member

Another quickie knock-off in the bag--It doesn't work!!

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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This was something of a low-rent Exorcist riff that really never gets scary, nor does much beyond some campy melodrama for my tastes. It's fairly forgettable, but if you're just dying to check it out I suppose I'd give it a *slight* rental recommend... Rental?

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Synopsis

A woman with a shady past, Ruby Claire (Piper Laurie) is the single mother of Leslie (Janit Baldwin), a teenager who is deaf and mute. Ruby operates a drive-in movie theater and employs a number of ex-criminals, some of who start to die in bizarre ways. Eventually, Ruby discovers that the spirit of her dead mobster husband has possessed Leslie and is seeking revenge through the tormented girl. As Leslie picks off her dad's former associates, she also begins to target Ruby herself.

Director: Curtis Harrington
Producer: George Edwards
Screenwriter: Barry Schneider, George Edwards
Production Co: Dimension Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 23, 1977, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 22, 2019
Runtime: 1h 24m

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