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Overview

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7.0/10   517 votes
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Director:
Buzz Kulik
Writers:
John Holbrook Vance (novel)
Andrew Peter Marin (teleplay)
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Release Date:
23 October 1974 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Horror | Thriller more
Tagline:
The Wilby place is haunted... by a ghost who isn't dead! more
Plot:
A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house... more | add synopsis
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NewsDesk:
Blood, Bats and Future Shock - Chosen Survivors
 (From Fangoria. 24 June 2009, 1:45 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
like an Anne Frank-Norman Bates mixture more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Scott Jacoby ... Ronald Wilby

Pippa Scott ... Mrs. Wood
John Larch ... Sgt. Lynch

Dabney Coleman ... Mr. Wood

Kim Hunter ... Elaine Wilby
John Fiedler ... Mr. Roscoe
Linda Watkins ... Mrs. Schumacher
Cindy Fisher ... Babs Wood
Cindy Eilbacher ... Althea Wood
Lisa Eilbacher ... Ellen Wood
Ted Eccles ... Duane Mathews
Lesley Woods ... Aunt Margaret
Aneta Corsaut ... Mrs. Mathews

Shelley Spurlock ... Laurie Mathews
Angela Hoffman ... Carol Mathews
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Additional Details

Runtime:
74 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Unrated | Iceland:12

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: When Babs runs downstairs in Mrs. Schumaker's house, the basement door opens out into the kitchen and the hinges are on the kitchen side. When Ronald shuts that door, the scene shows him pulling it shut from the kitchen side. When Babs knocks the hinge pins out to escape, the hinges are on the basement side. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Ugly Betty: Bad Amanda (#3.10)" (2008) more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
like an Anne Frank-Norman Bates mixture, 29 April 2004
Author: staytherelass from texas

Many fans of 70s tv horror revere this obscure and neat movie from 1974.And with good reason!Ronald is a shy young man with a wild imagination who lives with his twisted mother.After he accidentally kills a neighborhood girl and buries her,his ma surmises Ronald should hide in a plastered-over room until things settle down.Ma dies and Ronald stays put,drilling peepholes into every room.By this point he's quite deranged and when a new family with pretty daughters moves in,look out!Scott Jacoby is great as Ronald and the whole movie is very creepy.I've seen other movies that borrowed elements of BR(hider in the house,christina's house),but none reached the eerie level of this one.

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