9 Awesome Characters Who Had Really Lame Deaths

3. Dr. Loomis - Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers

Dr. Loomis was the Van Helsing of the Halloween series, always turning up when Michael Myers went on a rampage. He’d rant and rave for people to listen to him, and they’d usually be too slow to heed his advice. He even tried to blow up himself and Michael in part two to stop everything, but they were both too tough to die.

Donald Pleasence brought a lot of class to the role, despite the later sequels being far from classy affairs. He sadly died after making the sixth movie, and since the production of that turkey was such a mess most of his scenes were later cut; the director deemed them “boring”.

When the original ending was cut - which would have set up another movie with the character - they had to drastically re-edit the footage to give him another resolution. Their solution was to play audio of Loomis shrieking in horror over random location footage from the movie, implying Michael is killing him off-screen.

To really hammer home how tone-deaf this ending is, the movie then cuts to a dedication to the late actor; great work, fellas.