Donald Pleasence
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Considered a classic of Australian New Wave cinema, WAKE IN FRIGHT tells the nightmarish story of a schoolteacher’s descent into demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in the outback.Â
4) Halloween
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On Halloween night in 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally murdered his seventeen-year-old sister and was locked away for fifteen years. In 1978 he escapes and returns to his quiet hometown on Halloween night to look for his next victims.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
English
Description
More Fearsome Than Frankenstein... More Demonic Than Dracula! Edinburgh, 1827. Irish immigrants Burke (George Rose, A New Leaf) and Hare (Donald Pleasence, Halloween) hit upon the idea of selling the bodies of the recently deceased to eminent surgeon Dr. Robert Knox (Peter Cushing, The Skull). Dr. Knox, knowing that experimental vivisection is the only way for medicine to make progress, forms an uneasy alliance with the self-styled body snatchers....
7) Will Penny
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
An aging and out-of-luck cowboy is taken in by a young woman travelling to meet her husband, and soon finds himself falling in love.
8) Halloween II
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Michael Myers, a psychopath left for dead, picks up where he left off stalking the halls of the hospital where his sister lies waiting.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The murder of a prostitute, who is also a German agent, draws the attention of Major Grau of German Intelligence, who discovers that the evidence points to three top-ranking Nazi generals. After following leads, Grau winds up in Paris and discovers that two of the generals are deeply involved in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Grau's case will go unfinished for twenty years until the true killer is brought to justice.
11) Cul-De-Sac
Author
Language
English
Description
A hermit lives with his nymphomaniac wife in a large dank castle on a small island off the coast of England. Two escaped criminals make their way to the castle and terrorize the couple. Directed by Roman Polanski.
12) Phenomena
Author
Language
English
Description
The young Jennifer Corvino (played by Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly) is sent to a private Swiss academy for girls where a killer is on the loose, brutally murdering students. Jennifer is a "gifted" girl with the strange ability to communicate with insects, and Dr. McGregor (Donald Pleasence, John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN series, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK) enlists her to help locate the killer.
13) The Advocate
Author
Language
English
Description
A courtroom thriller with an edge, it's the story of a dynamic young lawyer whose quest for the simple life leads him to a law position in a small rural town. What he finds instead is a disturbing case of murder, seduction and corruption - a case that reveals the mystery beneath the village's quiet facade. Yet, as he searches for answers, he finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue and betrayal.
14) Will Penny
Author
Language
English
Description
Hollywood legend Charlton Heston stars as Will Penny, an aging cowboy on a hard-luck streak. He's out of work, out of money, and staked out to die in the desert by a gang of ruthless outlaws. Moments before death, Will is taken in by a beautiful young woman named Catherine (Joan Hackett), who is heading west with her young son to join her husband. As Catherine nurses Will back to health, he catches a glimpse of a lifestyle he's never known. Suddenly,...