
Psycho(1960)
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.


“The Wood family doesn't know it. But the old house they've just bought is already occupied... by a psychopathic killer.”
When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.

Scott Jacoby
Ronald Wilby

Pippa Scott
Mrs. Wood

John Larch
Sgt. Lynch

Dabney Coleman
Mr. Wood

Kim Hunter
Elaine Wilby

John Fiedler
Mr. Roscoe

Linda Watkins
Mrs. Schumacher

Cindy Fisher
Babs Wood

Cindy Eilbacher
Althea Wood

Lisa Eilbacher
Ellen Wood
Bad Ronald is a tv movie, drama, thriller, horror film released in 1974 exploring themes of based on novel or book, murder, death, mental illness, peeping tom, death of mother. Directed by Buzz Kulik, it stars Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch. When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.
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