Ray Carlton(He Knows You’re Alone)

## Poster

**Ray Carlton**, simply known as **Killer**, is the main slasher villain from the 1980 American slasher film, He Knows You’re Alone.

He is portrayed by **Tom Rolfing**.

## Personality

Ray Carlton is an obsessed stalker who doesn’t handle rejection well and will vent out his rage through murder.

## Background

Ray Carlton was once engaged to a woman, named Joann, until she called off their wedding plans and instead became engaged to a detective named Len Gamble. Enraged that she chose another man, Ray comes up to her room before her wedding and kills her with a switchblade.

## Biography

After three years, Ray kills a woman in a movie theater and then rides a bus to a different town, Westfield, where he finds a woman, Amy, who is to be married to a man named Phil. Ray stalks her through town where she heads to a bridal shop to try on a wedding dress and Ray kills the owner, Ralph, with a pair of scissors and robs his cash register. He continues following Amy to a church and back to her house, where her friends throw her a surprise party.
The murders get the attention of Len, who immediately heads to Westfield upon realizing that Ray is back.

Meanwhile, one of Amy’s friends, Joyce, leaves the party to have sex with their professor, Carl. Ray follows her and breaks into Carl’s house where he turns the power off while Joyce and Ray were about to have sex in the bedroom. As Carl heads down to take a look at the fuse box, Ray heads to bedrooms where he kills Joyce. When Carl heads back up, he finds Joyce dead in the bed and Ray surprises him with the lighter and stabs him multiple times.

The next day, when Amy is being visited by her ex-boyfriend, Marvin, she sees Ray outside her window and recognizes him as the one who’s been following her. When she asks Marvin to look outside, Ray was nowhere to be seen.
Len arrives at the bridal shop to investigate Ralph’s body and finds a torn piece of cloth from one of the wedding dresses. Once matching it up with one of the dresses, Len finds out it’s reserved for Amy.

Ray continues to follow Amy to an amusement park where she sees him when was on two rides. Late at night, as Amy takes her little sister, Diane to a party, Nancy is left all alone at the house. As Nancy is relaxing while listening to music, Ray appears and kills her with a kitchen knife.

Amy arrives back to the house after dropping off her sister and is horrified to find Nancy’s severed head in the fish tank. She then finds Ray in her house and runs away, with Ray chasing after her. She manages to get into her car and drives away. However, Ray was able to climb on top of her car’s roof before she drove away. Breaking the glass of her window, Ray reaches in to grab her until Amy swerves the car around and crashes into a lamppost with Ray rolling off. Amy continues to run away, with Ray still chasing her, and makes her way to the morgue where Marvin was working at.

Once Amy tells Marvin about Ray, he looks around morgue, armed with a wooden board, while she waits in the office when they heard Ray coming in. Meanwhile, Len finds Amy’s house and discover Nancy’s severed head. After making a report on it, he was told that Amy already called the police about Ray from the morgue, so Len makes his way.

Waiting long enough, Amy looks around the morgue herself until she enters the room with all the corpses where she finds the coroner’s assistant corpse and get ambushed by Ray. Amy runs through the morgue’s underground basement but finds herself cornered when she finds a locked door. Ray is about to kill her with the kitchen knife but Len arrives in time and shoots him down. Len urges Amy to get away as Ray gets back up and stabs him in the heart.
Ray continues chasing after Amy despite being injured from the gunshot. Once reaching upstairs, Ray looses sight of Amy and looks around until she walks into a supply closet.
Once he enters the closet, Amy, hiding behind the opened door, closes the door and locks it up. However, Ray’s arm breaks through the door’s window and grabs Amy to choke her. She manages to grab a scalpel from a nearby tray and uses it to repeatedly stab Ray’s arm until he finally lets go of her. Marvin helps her up and the two escape as Ray continues reaching out to them through the window.
As soon as Marvin and Amy head outside, the police arrive and Marvin tells them where Ray is and they head down to arrest him.

## Murder Objects

### Murder Weapons

* Dagger
* Switchblade
* Scissors
* Kitchen Knife

## Kills

* **Joann Carlton**: Stabbed two times in the stomach with a switchblade.
* **Marie**: Stabbed in the back through a movie theater seat with a dagger.
* **Ralph the Tailor**: Choked and stabbed six times with a pair of scissors.
* **Joyce**: Stabbed in the neck.(off-screen)
* **Prof. Carl Mason**: Stabbed seven times with a knife.(off-screen)
* **Nancy**: Throat slit with a kitchen knife. Later, severed head found in fish tank.(off-screen)
* **Coroner’s Assistant**: Found lying on a table with her throat slit.(off-screen)
* **Det. Len Gamble**: Stabbed in the heart with a kitchen knife.