According to what the director told Entertainment Weekly, the original plan was to use a lookalike of the late actor Donald Pleasence, who played Dr. Loomis in the original film, to reshoot the ...

Donald Pleasence’s psychiatrist character Dr. Loomis was a hugely important part of John Carpenter‘s original Halloween and the actor would reprise the role in four of the franchise’s ...

As the long-running horror franchise continues, the absence of one of its former stars is acutely felt Pleasence starred in Halloweens I, II, IV, V and VI, in which it was Loomis’s job to wander ...