Bad Ronald (1974) (TV)
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Nostalgia at it's
most macabre |
This is one of the very first sort of after school
specials I saw as a
kid, obviously a rerun because I was around 10 when I saw it
so it was
maybe 1984 when I saw it. It really freaked me out though. All
I
remember is this boy is talking with a girl, he pushes her innocently,
in a frustrated manner, she falls backwards, cracks her head
on a brick
or something, and dies... he runs home, or bicycles home, tells
his mom
and she holes him up inside the walls of the house, and moves
away,
leaving him there.
A new family eventually moves into the house, one day he is
looking
through a pinhole in the wall, and gets spotted, whereby he
freaks out,
rushes through the wall, and the cops kill him or something...
That's all I remember of it, but it was very haunting, and
very
depressing.
I was also watching shows like Chiller Diller on weekends,
The
Incredible Doctor Phibes, Twilight Zone, and Night Gallery,
so I was
really interested in the macabre growing up. This is the first
time I
thought about this special in a long time having found a link
to it on
a FAQ trivia site.
Would be great to get those old shows back and see them again
20 years
later, thirty years since they were released. Good stuff.
"One of the most cherished "Movie of the Week"
entries, "Bad Ronald"
holds up well nearly thirty years later...but an ambitious remake
is
definitely something for Hollywood's movie men to give thought
to.
The premise of a psychotic nerd holed up in your very own home
has to
be one of the creepiest ever thought up...and this one surely
had
impressionable kids searching the house for peepholes in the
walls. I
miss these 70s made-for-TV films, many of them are entirely
unavailable
today...and an eager audience is dying for the nostalgia! Bring
'em on
back!"
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