Strange killings occur at Ruby's drive-in theatre, sixteen years after the murder of her gangster boyfriend.
Acting
Piper Laurie chewing scenery like it's her last meal.
Direction
Harrington's final theatrical film, surprisingly committed to the bit.
Director
Curtis Harrington
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Curtis Harrington was a cult director who started in experimental cinema; this was his desperate attempt to stay commercially relevant after the 70s horror boom passed him by.
Ruby arrived two years after Carrie made Piper Laurie an Oscar-nominated horror icon; she's essentially riffing on Margaret White in a drive-in setting, and nobody stopped her.
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