Bad Ronald
This film has haunted me my whole life. I remember watching it as a child with my mother. I feel sure it was an afternoon and I was off sick from school. I was not prepared for an afternoon made-for-TV flick to be so amazing and compelling. I never knew the title of the film.
As the years went by I would dream about aspects of the film, and by my teenage I thought it was merely a dream and that no such film actually existed. When
Hider In The House came out in 1989 I wondered ifI had had a premonition of a film not yet made!
Turns out it is real. I read something about it by chance on the internet maybe eightish years ago and connected it. The film was called
Bad Ronald and it was no dream!
As VHS copies of it go for silly money and bootlegs are few and far between and taken from the VHS I got frustrated. I kept waiting for a release. Warner Archive Collection added it to their catalogue, but are USA only. So I downloaded it.
It's a terrible quality copy but at least I have seen it again. I was amazed how much of it I remembered from the 1970s fevered viewing! It was as good as I remembered. Possibly better - I am now of an age to appreciate it more.
This is a superb film surely contending for the title of "Best TV film". It's a miniature masterpiece. But now I want a legit, good copy! Why won't Warner Archive sell to me?
Why?
WHY?!?!?!
