Bad Ronald

Bad Ronald is a made for tv horror/thriller movie from the 70's that, to my knowledge, has been mostly forgotten. Bad Ronald is also an early entry for me into this crazy horror collecting business that I've been involved in since 2010 not to long after I moved to Champaign for a job. I may have mentioned this already. Steven Cisna told me about how there was a movie on tv when he was growing up that involved a kid living behind a wall, in his own house with his mother because he accidentally killed someone. His mother passes away in the hospital during a surgery she had to undergo, and he was stuck there behind the wall because he wasn't able to leave the house to find out what was going on. He was being hunted by the cops, you see. They never knew what happened to Ronald Wilby. He just, sort of... vanished. Until a new family ends up buying the house without anyone knowing that he was still living behind that wall with all of his artwork and this wild, fairy tale land he had written called "Atranta". Get this boy some food- he looks famished.

  Happy birthday, Ronald!

College is inevitable, mother.

Rejection hurts.

Killing Carol wasn't the answer, Ronald.

Building your new home- in the bathroom behind a faux wall. No one will ever know.

That mattress looks very uncomfortable.

Weirdo artwork- check. Rip in jacket- check.

What an old, nosy bitch.

Atranta is wild.

I really don't know how long I would be able to live behind a wall in a bathroom. Especially with a paper thin mattress.

Be careful Wilby, that nosy ass neighbor is going to get you!

Through the floor and out the door, Ronald will go.

Every family has an outcast.

This film is timeless. The situation, the acting, the tension of "Is Ronald going to get caught?" constantly creeping in the background as you watch it. I don't care if it's 20 or 30 years from now, this movie will still be good and I hope that it garners the fan base that it should. I honestly consider this to be somewhat of a classic as a testament of quality. Basically what I'm saying here zits and zombies is that "they don't make them like they used to." Everything nowadays is P.O.V. or jump scares or re-makes. Just pathetic. But if you want to see how a classic short and sweet movie is put together, go live with Ronald behind that wall in his bathroom. And get him a damn sandwich.