Donald Pleasence movies available on 4K Blu-ray, ranked by transfer quality.
dir. John Carpenter
S-Tier from Shout Factory. There are multiple packaging options but the discs are identical across the standard edition, steelbook, and collector's edition. If you're new to this one and the black levels look crushed, that's normal. It was shot almost entirely at night on a low budget, and Carpenter himself has said that's just how it looks. The Eagle Pictures Italian release is a better-looking transfer for anyone willing to import. The steelbook art is a love-it-or-hate-it situation, some people think it looks more Mad Max than Snake Plissken.
Shout! Factory · 4K + Blu-ray
S-Tier StudioCanal 4K with a 4.5 score. Carpenter's second Apocalypse Trilogy entry. Scream Factory did a steelbook at $45 USD which people thought was too much, and the price eventually dropped to $34.99 USD. The StudioCanal 4-pack has better color accuracy but zero special features, while Scream Factory's has Atmos but messed up the colors.
StudioCanal · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Ted Kotcheff
Umbrella Entertainment crushed this transfer. FiM encode confirmed. Arrow has their own version coming, so expect a lot of A/B screenshots in a few months.
Umbrella Entertainment · 4K + Blu-ray
dir. Ralph Nelson
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
Rob Zombie's reimagining, not the Carpenter original. Imprint limited edition steelbook announced at a price people called a great deal. A-Tier transfer from a film that's more divisive than the disc quality would suggest.
dir. Dwight H. Little
C-Tier Shout Factory 4K. Michael Myers returns. The Halloween franchise on 4K from Shout Factory has been comprehensive if not always well-transferred.
dir. Dominique Othenin-Girard
C-Tier Shout Factory 4K. More Michael Myers.
dir. Rick Rosenthal
C-Tier Shout Factory 4K. The hospital sequel. Same transfer debate as the first Halloween.
