The best Donald Pleasence’s horror movies

Donald Pleasence

Donald Pleasence

05/10/1919- 02/02/1995
We present our ranking of the best Donald Pleasence’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Donald Pleasence.
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Halloween

Halloween
7.7/10
Michael Myers escaped from the Illinois State Mental Hospital after 15 years of treatment for the brutal murder of his sister and has returned to Haddonfield to relieve his crime. What follows is a reign of terror. He came home for Halloween and may return.

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
5.8/10
The apparently comatose Michael Myers is being transferred from one hospital to another, but he wakes up when the ambulance crew talk about his surviving niece, Jamie. After slaughtering his attendants, Myers sets out to find his one living relative who is, fortunately, being cared for by a kind and resourceful foster sister named Rachel. Meanwhile, the ever-cautious Dr. Loomis remains on the killer's path.

Halloween II

Halloween II
6.5/10
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
4.9/10
Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local children's hospital after attacking her stepmother and losing her voice. Her mental link with her evil uncle may be the key to uprooting her family tree.

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
4.7/10
Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers. And now, six years later, Jamie has escaped after giving birth to Michael's child. She runs to Haddonfield to get Dr. Loomis to help her again.

Dracula

Dracula
6.5/10
  • Genre: HorrorRomance
  • Release: 20/07/1979
  • Character: Dr. Jack Seward
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.

Phenomena

Phenomena
6.7/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 25/01/1985
  • Character: Professor John McGregor
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.

Prince of Darkness

Prince of Darkness
6.7/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 23/10/1987
  • Character: Vater Loomis
A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.

Terror in the Aisles

Terror in the Aisles
6.3/10
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.

Death Line

Death Line
5.9/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 13/10/1972
  • Character: Inspector Calhoun
There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously. Helping them are a young couple who get nearer to the horrors underground than they would wish.

From Beyond the Grave

From Beyond the Grave
6.6/10
  • Genre: FantasyHorror
  • Release: 21/02/1974
  • Character: Jim Underwood
Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "Offers You Cannot Resist". A nasty fate awaits all of them—particularly those who cheat the shop's Proprietor.

Alone in the Dark

Alone in the Dark
6/10
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.

The Uncanny

The Uncanny
5.7/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 24/08/1977
  • Character: Valentine De'ath (segment 3 "Hollywood 1936")
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.

The Flesh and the Fiends

The Flesh and the Fiends
6.9/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 02/02/1960
  • Character: William Hare
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...

Circus of Horrors

Circus of Horrors
6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/04/1960
  • Character: Vanet
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.

The Mutations

The Mutations
5.3/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 25/09/1974
  • Character: Professor Nolter
A mad scientist (Donald Pleasence) crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.

The Monster Club

The Monster Club
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 11/04/1981
  • Character: Pickering, Chief of the B-Squad
A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.

Nothing Underneath

Nothing Underneath
5.8/10
Thriller in Milan, Italy, where a serial killer uses scissors to assassinate top-models. A Yellowstone park ranger, from Usa, arrives in the city to protect his sister, but she has vanished. The guy will meet a lot of people and will know the (sometimes dangerous) world of international jet-set. But soon the killer will search for him too...

Vampire in Venice

Vampire in Venice
5.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 15/09/1988
  • Character: Don Alvise
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.

Specters

Specters
4.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 24/04/1987
  • Character: Professor Lasky
A mysterious tomb is unearthed in the catacombs under Rome, the contents of which contain evidence of an ageless evil that may once have preyed on man.

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