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Horror Movies & Sci-Fi Movies Database
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In 1935, a lowlife mobster, Nicky Rocco, is betrayed and executed in the swampy backwoods as his pregnant gun-moll, Ruby Claire, watches. He swears vengeance with his dying breath, and then she suddenly goes into labour. In 1951, Ruby runs a backwoods drive-in theatre, employes some ex-mobsters, and has a 16-year-old daughter, Leslie Clair, who had been mute since birth. Bizarre accidents claim the lives of one employee after another. Then Leslie shows strange behavior, and then begins to speak...in her dead father's voice. A demonic, perverted Nicky Rocco possesses the girl's body and terrorizes Ruby with levitations, telekinesis, maniacal laughing, and bizarre sexual aggression.
Movie Tagline:
A love affair with the supernatural.
Title: Ruby
Release Date: June 23, 1977
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Horror
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Color
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 4.5
Buried.com Rating: 5.5 - (Rate This Horror Movie at Buried.com)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With R
MPAA Rating: R
Director(s):
Curtis Harrington
Cast:
Piper Laurie ...Ruby Claire
Stuart Whitman ...Vince Kemper
Roger Davis ...Dr. Paul Keller
Janit Baldwin ...Leslie Claire
Sal Vecchio ...Nicky Rocco
Paul Kent ...Louie
Len Lesser ...Barney
Crystin Sinclaire ...Lila June
Jack Perkins ...Avery
Eddy Donno ...Jess (as Edward Donno)
Fred Kohler Jr. ...Jake Miller
Rory Stevens ...Donny
Raymond Kark ...1st Man
Jan Burrell ...1st Woman
Kip Gillespie ...Herbie
Tamar Cooper ...A Woman
Patricia Allison ...Pickup Man's Wife
Stu Olson ...A Man
Mary Margaret Robinson ...Maybelline, Sheriff's Wife (as Mary Robinson)
Michael Alldredge ...Sheriff's Wife's Date
Allison Hayes ...The Fifty-Foot Woman (archive footage)
Roy Gordon ...Dr. Isaac Cushing (footage from 'Attack of the...
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
George Edwards
Steve Krantz
Writer(s):
George Edwards
Steve Krantz
Barry Schneider
Composer(s):
Don Ellis
Movie Soundtrack(s):
"Love's So Easy"
More Movie Taglines:
- A love affair with the supernatural.
- Christened in BLOOD, raised in SIN, she's sweet sixteen, let the party begin!
- A love affair with the supernatural
- PIPER LAURIE-Frightening in "Carrie". Now...Terrifying as "RUBY"
Movie Trivia:
- Includes a scene reworking the "spider-walk" sequence cut from the original version of The Exorcist (1973).
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The producer chose to change the ending, and both Curtis Harrington and Piper Laurie refused to be involved in the re-shoot. It was allegedly shot by Stephanie Rothman, who has neither confirmed nor denied her involvement. This ending, featured in the TV commercials at the time of the theatrical release, helped make it the box office success it was.
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The version broadcast on television contained a lot of footage not seen in the theatrical version. The footage was allegedly shot by Stephanie Rothman, new for the TV sale, not scenes deleted from the original version. This version was also available on VHS tape. The DVD release is the theatrical version.
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Keywords:
Drive In, Revenge, Drive In Movie, Gangster, Drive In Movie Theatre ...[more]
Keywords All:
Mother Daughter Relationship, Possession, Violence, Movie Theatre, Slasher, Movie Theater, 1950s, Rampage, Gore, Nostalgia, Back From The Dead, Drive In Theater, Blood, Ghost, Satire, Supernatural, Deaf Mute, Independent Film, Character Name In Title
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Rating: 5.5 out of 10.0 - 51 votes cast total
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