Ruth Collins Movies
Lead actress Ruth Collins has appeared on screen since the late '80s. ~ All Movie Guide- 1993
Set in a ghetto neighborhood, the film follows the lives -- and deaths -- of a self-destructive street gang. At times, it looks as though an Important Message will emerge from all the wanton bloodshed. But the principal purpose of the film was to make a swift box-office turnover, not to educate. This direct-to-cable endeavor is unrated, but not recommended for impressionable children. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- David John, Ruth Collins, (more)
- 1993
Shot on inferior video stock (but sporting pretentious "letterbox" screen-masking for some insane reason), this painfully cheap and sleazy affair presents a serial killer on wheels, in the form of wheelchair-bound Eugene (Ron Litman), who seeks revenge against the street punks who killed his mother and rendered him unable to walk. When similar thugs rape and kill his aunt (Mary Woronov), Eugene seems to slip into Taxi Driver mode. When his attempts at preparation are thwarted by his infirmity, he is assisted at first by a like-minded homeless man (G.J. Levinson), but when his accomplice chickens out, Eugene kills him and rises to the challenge on his own, building confidence with each attack. Eventually he hits on the ultimate plan of revenge: by poisoning the water supply with a drug that will destroy the city's wealthy populace, literally turning them into bums! Though he is ostensibly directing his revenge on society as a whole, Eugene seems to favor naked or barely-clad female victims -- which seems more indicative of the director's hang-ups than those of his principal character. A waste of time, despite the presence of the always-interesting Woronov. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- 1990
- R
When young Bobby Delaney (James Davies) inadvertently releases genie Dancee (Heidi Paine) from her lengthy imprisonment, the grateful girl agrees to grant him three wishes. When Bobby wishes to find his true love, the genie obliges by conjuring up a horde of infatuated women for him to try out. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jim Davies, Heidi Paine, (more)
- 1989
- R
A pair of struggling actors, one of whom is singer Michael Walker, hit on a scheme to raise money for an independent film by posing as evangelists, which leads to all kinds of complications. The director of this film, Mickey Nivelli has several other professional names, including Harbance Mickey Kumar. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael Walker, Jim Davies, (more)
- 1989
- R
The future of the insurance business is profiled in this horror/thriller, where agents literally collect heads if members don't pay their premiums. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- 1989
- R
Leo Blockman (Scott Baker) was an obnoxious male-chauvinist pig, the sort of man who would call out sexually suggestive remarks to women on the street. After he is chased into the Hudson river by one of the irate women he has insulted, and drowns, he comes out changed. At first he doesn't realize it and is as foul-mouthed and obnoxious as ever, but he's become a good looking woman, Cleo (Jane Hamilton. His problems are compounded when he/she is hit on by the same sort of lowlifes that he once was. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jane Hamilton, Scott Baker, (more)
- 1989
Tin Star Void is a difficult film to classify, as it blends elements of post-apocalyptic films, action films, westerns and science fiction. The story is set in a timeless Western town, complete with a saloon/whorehouse, where people drive around in 1950s roadsters. Hero Wade Holt (Daniel Chapman, a guitar slinging cowboy (played by Daniel Chapman) sets out to avenge the death of his sheriff brother at the hands of local crime boss Hawk Loren Blackwell. Wade's quest for revenge gets him a long spell in prison, but after the U.S. economy collapses the jail is shut down and he's free to resume his mission. Director Tom Gniazdowski was the producer of Sid and Nancy. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Daniel Chapman, Ruth Collins, (more)
Murderous high school babes entrap the fellas. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Debi Thibeault, Karen Nielsen, (more)
- 1988
- R
Chuck Vincent directed this R-rated remake of his own hardcore classic Mrs. Barrington (1974). Ivy Barrington (Ruth Collins) is a beautiful woman whose rich husbands keep dying mysteriously after they name her sole heiress to their fortunes. Jane Hamilton, also known as porn's "Veronica Hart," co-stars with Troy Donahue and Jack Carter. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ruth Collins, Joyce Lyons, (more)
Buxom beauties battle a crazed killer when they are forced to seek shelter in an abandoned mental hospital in this spoof of slasher movies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Patty Mullen, Ruth Collins, (more)
- 1988
If wealthy men keep giving her the luxurious lifestyle that she has grown accustomed to, Alexa will give them any pleasures of the flesh that they care to experience. But she has to come to grips with her true feelings about her ways when she agrees to let playwright Tony explore the depths of her mind for a play he's writing. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christine Moore, Kirk Baily, (more)
- 1988
A countrified musician (Gary Knox) cultivates a new, sophisticated image in the Big City. One thing he hasn't refined from his system is the urge to kill. Thus, he's open to the proposition made by the wife (Zoe Tamerlaine Lund) of a very wealthy man (Daniel Chapman). The woman suggests organizing a murder-for-hire operation...and further suggests that her relationship with the country boy need not be confined to office hours. This is certainly a far cry from Double Indemnity. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Zoe Tamerlis, Gary Knox, (more)
With a title like Assault Of The Killer Bimbos, the viewer gets pretty much what he or she would expect: a dumb-but-hip instant cult favorite that knows - and revels in - its limitations. Christina Whitaker and Elizabeth Kaitan are the two lead, er, bimbos, who are working as go-go dancers in a dead-end nightclub when their boss is murdered. When the two girls are accused of the crime, they hit the road for Mexico, picking up yet another bimbo along the way, along with three beach bums, and engaging in various adventures as they attempt to expose the real killers. First-time director Anita Rosenberg delivers a certain amount of wit, getting the most out of her low-rent cast, and the film's self-awareness goes a long way toward making it more palatable than one might expect. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christina Whitaker, Elizabeth Kaitan, (more)
In this comedy, a broccoli-shaped alien named Eoj (Carmine Capobianco) lives on the planet Crowak, which is populated entirely by vegetable life forms. When Eoj wins a two-week trip to Earth, he transforms himself into a silver-suited gigolo and heads off to Prospect, Connecticut to bed as many Earth women as he can. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carmine Capobianco, Debi Thibeault, (more)
A trio of female firefighters uncover an arson conspiracy in this insipid sex comedy. Gianna Rains, Martha Peterson, and Renee Raiford expose political candidate Warren Frump (Henry David Keller) as the mastermind behind the scheme to make the burned-out neighborhood the sight of a condominium development. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gianna Rains, Martha Peterson, (more)
- 1987
- R
Three Big Apple prostitutes decide to give up streetwalking and find themselves fabulously wealthy husbands by becoming more cultured. Unfortunately, they are sorely lacking in sophistication, so they go to a highly cultured transvestite for a few lessons in how to be a real ladies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1987
Joe (Carmine Capobianco) is a bartender and a psychotic killer who falls in love with the woman of his dreams in this horror comedy. Kate (Debi Thibeault) is a manicurist who shares Joe's penchant for committing gruesome murders. The two meet, fall in love, and make plans to combine forces in the murder of Nikki (Cecilia Wilde), a topless dancer in a local club. Stabbed repeatedly, the victim stays alive and spurts copious amounts of red corpuscles until Joe hits her in the head with a frying pan. When the garbage disposal breaks after being stuffed with too many body parts, the couple calls for the plumber Herman (Frank Stewart). Fortunately for Joe and Kate, Herman is a fellow psycho and cannibal who agrees to work for body parts. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carmine Capobianco, Debi Thibeault, (more)
A child being brought up in a brothel shoots his mother and her john to death in the prologue to this silly slasher film from director Roberta Findlay (The Oracle). Thirteen years later, the Edmonson College chapter of Kappa Gamma Tau is preparing to initiate their new sorority sisters. Linda (Amy Brentano) gets her boyfriend Russ (Dan Erickson) to rig up the old brothel with spooky gags for a treasure hunt. That night, Linda takes a group of pledges to the house, which is actually haunted by the hookers' ghosts and a transvestite slasher who turns out to be the now-grown murderous kid from the prologue. There are no deaths for an hour, then viewers are treated to a strangulation by garter, a co-ed nailed into a coffin, a double-shooting, a hanging, a tumble down some stairs and a fairly brutal stabbing. Most will figure out who the killer is within five minutes and wait an hour more to see him do his thing in a puffy white dress and high-heels. Needless to say, Findlay has learned nothing from her two decades behind a camera and delivers one of the most tedious, nonsensical slasher films made during the 1980s glut. There are visible microphones, bad editing, horrid acting, and pathetically weak dialogue. Findlay is largely to blame for all of these flaws, as she photographed, co-edited, directed and wrote this awful mess which is strictly for completists only. Pam La Testa and Ruth Collins appear briefly. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Amy Brentano, Shannon McMahon, (more)
