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  • From Beyond the Grave
  • From Beyond the Grave review by Mark Nelson from Chester, England
    Rated - 1 stars Don't rent - not as described 18 January 2005
    ...au horror film starring Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen, David Warner, Diana Dors and Donald Pleasence prepare to be disappointed. This is in fact some awful American film of the sam...  
  • The Barchester Chronicles
  • The Barchester Chronicles review by Tony from Hastings
    Rated - 5 stars Barchester revisited 19 June 2005
    ... silkily evil Obadiah Slope are hugely memorable. But the greatest pleasure is Donald Pleasence, often a hateful villain but here showing what a superb actor he was by playing...  

Donald Pleasence - filmography


  • Shadows And Fog on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Kathy Bates,  John Cusack
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: 15
    A killer lurks in the dark corners of an odd little European town--a mysterious stranger who brutally strangles his victims. When the circus comes to visit, the madman steps up his pace, commencing a ghastly murder spree. Meanwhile, a nondescript local man named Kleinman finds himself accused of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 58% from 425 members
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  • Buried Alive on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Donald Pleasence,  John Carradine,  Robert Vaughn
    Director: Gerard Kikoine
    Certificate: 18
    Janet Pendleton arrives at Ravens-croft Reform School to teach Science, but discovers macabre goings-on, especially to wayward girls. Suffering hallucinations of someone being bricked-up behind a wall, she seeks the help of the School Doctor, only to discover he was once a patient at the School ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.0 38% from 145 members
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  • Django Strikes Again (1987)
    Starring: Franco Nero,  Donald Pleasence,  Christopher Connelly
    Director: Ted Archer
    Certificate: TBC
    Former gunfighter Django has become a monk and abandoned his violent former ways. His daughter is kidnapped by rogue Hungarian soldiers using slave labor to run a silver mine. Django casts off his habit and digs up his machine gun to practise a little liberation theology.
    Rate this: 2.5 48% from 10 members
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  • Prince Of Darkness on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Donald Pleasence,  Lisa Blount,  Victor Wong
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: 15
    Director John Carpenter creates a film that is genuinely scary with PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Graduate students are confronted with pure evil when they go to study a container of strange ooze discovered in the basement of an abandoned church. The ooze is released and all hell, quite literally, breaks ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 63% from 438 members
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  • Scoop (1987)
    Starring: Denholm Elliott,  Michael Hordern,  Herbert Lom
    Director: Gavin Millar
    Certificate: TBC
    A young man who writes a weekly newspaper column about British rural life from his family estate, is mistaken for a war correspondent by confused subeditor and is sent to the suspected action site of Ishmaelia. On his journey he meets an elusive man of mystery (Herbert Lom), a stunning German ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 58% from 12 members
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  • Phantom Of Death on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Michael York,  Donald Pleasence,  Edwige Fenech
    Director: Ruggero Deodato
    Certificate: 18
    From the director of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST comes this story of a brilliant young pianist, stricken by a rare disease which causes him to age with alarming speed, sending him mad and onto a murderous rampage. His disease soon becomes his disguise as he ages very quickly between murders, complicating ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 49% from 43 members
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  • Specters on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Donald Pleasence,  John Pepper,  Katrine Michelsen
    Director: Marcello Avallone
    Certificate: 15
    A group of archeologists enter a secret catacomb which has been sealed for centuries. But in their ignorance they have disturbed an evil force, not seen on the face of the earth for nineteen thousand years. The race is on to re-seal the tomb... a head-on clash with the power of evil.
    Rate this: 2.0 41% from 60 members
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  • The Devonsville Terror on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Suzanna Love,  Robert Walker Jr.,  Donald Pleasence
    Director: Ulli Lommel
    Certificate: 18
    A witch hunt in Devonsville 300 years ago purges three young ladies, one of which screams a curse as she disappears into the nether world. Now it's The Present, and things come to a head when a man kills his wife, thus activating the curse. A new school teacher comes to town, and finds the town ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.0 35% from 6 members
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  • Halloween 2 on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis,  Donald Pleasence,  Lance Guest
    Director: Rick Rosenthal
    Certificate: 18
    Picking up right where the last film ended, this sequel begins as Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) pumps evil Mike Myers full of lead, then watches helplessly as the maniac killer stands up again and runs away. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the teenager last terrorized by Myers, is taken to a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 60% from 1,107 members
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  • Halloween (2 discs) on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Donald Pleasence,  P.J. Soles,  Jamie Lee Curtis
    Director: John Carpenter
    Certificate: 18
    Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 72% from 2,912 members
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  • Oh God! (1977)
    Starring: John Denver,  George Burns,  Teri Garr
    Director: Carl Reiner
    Certificate: TBC
    When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
    Rate this: 2.5 48% from 31 members
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  • Glory Days on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Tony Lo Bianco,  Donald Pleasence,  Gloria Carlin
    Director: Harvey Hart
    Certificate: PG
    A modern-day rodeo cowboy travels from town to town taking on anyone who will compete. But one day he is crushed by a horse and unable to compete anymore. Hitting rock bottom he is saved by the intervention of J.T. Jones who offers him hope for the future.
    Rate this: 2.0 37% from 57 members
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  • Deathline (1973)
    Starring: Christopher Lee,  Donald Pleasence
    Director: Gary Sherman
    Certificate: 18
    Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. 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 ..read more »
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