Ruby Review

Review of Ruby (1977) by screenqueeen: 👍 4.5/5

I'd say this is a neat little combination of a few things (a little AMITYVILLE pre-AMITYVILLE), but the longer the film plays the more WILD this gets. It's on a level adjacent to something like a Shirley Jackson story where the entire hand is obscured either until the very end or not at all, with events accumulating quickly in their outright threats. This thing is absolutely drenched in dread (a Curtis Harrington specialty!) and it services the rather odd yet strangely acceptable happenings through a dream haze. Piper Laurie is dazzling and provides yet another hypnotic emasculating aura. Janit Baldwin effectively mesmerizes and then some, surprising with her growth and relative arc(h). This is the good shit.