The '70s was a fertile breeding ground for ominous made-for-television movies that continue to stumble around in the minds of those who came of age during that decade. Bad Ronald is one such endeavor.

Although it's hampered by rushed pacing and some plot contrivances, Bad Ronald isn't actually that bad.

A made-for-TV movie about a creepy nerdy boy named Ronald "Scott Jacoby" who gets himself in over his head when he kills a little girl in the neighbourhood by accident, and is put into hiding by his grandmother in between the walls of his house. Well, Grandma passes away, but Ronald doesn't come out. A new family movies into the house, and Ronald is still in there, living in his own creepy fantasy world. He watches them through holes in the wall, and sneaks out for food occassionally. It's a creepy movie which I watched in '74 and could never forget.