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Bad Ronald

  • TV Movie
  • 19741974
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 14m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
2.3K
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Bad Ronald (1974)
DramaHorrorThriller
A perverted teenage boy who lives in the walls of a house finds the house sold to a family after his mother dies, and he falls for one of the new residents.A perverted teenage boy who lives in the walls of a house finds the house sold to a family after his mother dies, and he falls for one of the new residents.A perverted teenage boy who lives in the walls of a house finds the house sold to a family after his mother dies, and he falls for one of the new residents.
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
2.3K
YOUR RATING
    • Buzz Kulik
    • Andrew Peter Marin(teleplay by)
    • John Holbrook Vance(based on a novel by)
  • Stars
    • Scott Jacoby
    • Pippa Scott
    • John Larch
    • Buzz Kulik
    • Andrew Peter Marin(teleplay by)
    • John Holbrook Vance(based on a novel by)
  • Stars
    • Scott Jacoby
    • Pippa Scott
    • John Larch
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 60User reviews
    • 36Critic reviews
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    Bad Ronald (1974)
    Scott Jacoby in Bad Ronald (1974)
    Bad Ronald (1974)
    Scott Jacoby in Bad Ronald (1974)
    Kim Hunter in Bad Ronald (1974)
    John Larch in Bad Ronald (1974)
    John Larch in Bad Ronald (1974)
    Pippa Scott in Bad Ronald (1974)
    Kim Hunter in Bad Ronald (1974)
    Ted Eccles in Bad Ronald (1974)
    Ted Eccles and Scott Jacoby in Bad Ronald (1974)
    Scott Jacoby in Bad Ronald (1974)

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    Scott Jacoby
    Scott Jacoby
    • Ronald Wilby
    Pippa Scott
    Pippa Scott
    • Mrs. Wood
    John Larch
    John Larch
    • Sgt. Lynch
    Dabney Coleman
    Dabney Coleman
    • Mr. Wood
    Kim Hunter
    Kim Hunter
    • Elaine Wilby
    John Fiedler
    John Fiedler
    • Mr. Roscoe
    Linda Watkins
    Linda Watkins
    • Mrs. Schumacher
    Cindy Fisher
    Cindy Fisher
    • Babs Wood
    Cindy Eilbacher
    Cindy Eilbacher
    • Althea Wood
    Lisa Eilbacher
    Lisa Eilbacher
    • Ellen Wood
    Ted Eccles
    Ted Eccles
    • Duane Matthews
    Roger Aaron Brown
    Roger Aaron Brown
    • Sergeant Carter
    Aneta Corsaut
    Aneta Corsaut
    • Mrs. Matthews
    Angela Hoffman
    • Carol Matthews
    Karen Purcill
    • Wanda
    • (as Karen Purcil)
    Shelley Spurlock
    • Laurie Matthews
    Lesley Woods
    Lesley Woods
    • Aunt Margaret
      • Buzz Kulik
      • Andrew Peter Marin(teleplay by)
      • John Holbrook Vance(based on a novel by)
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    • Trivia
      Based on John Holbrook Vance's novel of the same title, the violence of the book was heavily cut and toned down for television. Much of the more disturbing content of Vance's novel was considered too intense for FCC restrictions.
    • Goofs
      When Ronald is crawling out of the pantry, a boom mike is visible.
    • Quotes

      Ronald Wilby: Atranta isn't fantasy, it's real!... You'll see.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Ugly Betty: Bad Amanda (2008)

    User reviews60

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    like an Anne Frank-Norman Bates mixture
    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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    • staytherelass
    • Apr 29, 2004

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    • Release date
      • October 23, 1974 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Lorimar Productions
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    • 1 hour 14 minutes
      • Color
      • Mono

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