Oct 202018
 

Bad Ronald is a movie I honestly never heard of before but thanks to a bit of a strange Blu-ray release from the Warner Archive Collection, I actually had the pleasure of seeing.

 

 

Bad Ronald
— Warner Archive Collection —
(1974)

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense/Thriller
Warner Archive | NR – 74 min. – $21.99 | October 9, 2018

Date Published: 10/20/2018 | Author: The Movieman


MOVIE INFO:
Directed by: Buzz Kulik
Writer(s): John Holbrook Vance (novel); Andrew Peter Marin (teleplay)
Cast: Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman, Kim Hunter
DISC INFO:
Features: None
Digital Copy: No
Formats Included: Blu-ray
Number of Discs: 1
Audio: English (DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono)
Video: 1080p/Full Frame 1.33
Subtitles: English SDH
Disc Size: NA
Codecs: MPEG-4 AVC
Region(s): A, B, C

 


PLOT SYNOPSIS


How bad is Ronald? The Wood family finds out when they move into a house with an extra the realtor didn’t know about: teenage Ronald (SCOTT JACOBY), who’s been hiding in a secret room ever since he killed a neighbor girl. Ronald was a little weird when he entered the room. Now he’s creepy-scary crazy. And he finds the three pretty Wood daughters very, very interesting.

 

SPECIAL FEATURES – 0/5


No features were included.

 


VIDEO – 3.75/5, AUDIO – 3.25/5


Bad Ronald crashes through the wall onto Blu-ray through Warner’s Archive Collection presented in its originally televised 1.33 full frame aspect ratio and given a new 1080p high-definition transfer. The picture quality is quite good especially for a 1970s made-for-TV movie, colors are decent enough showing off the beautiful motif of the era and detail is sharp and nicely defined throughout.

The movie comes with a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track which is serviceable providing for clear dialogue levels and outside of some minor hissing in the quieter scenes, still not at all bad.


OVERALL – 2.75/5


Overall, Bad Ronald is a movie I honestly never heard of before but thanks to a bit of a strange Blu-ray release from the Warner Archive Collection, I actually had the pleasure of seeing. It is certainly a creepy movie thanks to Scott Jacoby’s understated but nevertheless disturbing performance that makes it worthwhile to check out, even if it is a basic, no-frills release.

 

 

 

 

Check out some more 1080p screen caps by going to page 2. Please note, these do contain spoilers.

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