VEIL/THE TERROR/THE BAT [DVD]

The Veil, a spine-tingling television series devoted to the paranormal, stars Boris Karloff as the show's host. Hailed as one of the greatest television series that was never aired, The Veil, unfortunately, never made it to the small screen due to the financial problems of the show's film company. Television buffs who enjoy tension and suspense will delight in these thrilling episodes chock full of surprising twists and unexpected turns. Also in for an exciting treat are Boris Karloff fans who will enjoy watching the veteran horror icon assume several diverse roles including a comically inept British sergeant, an elderly gentleman confined to a wheelchair who is guarding a terrible secret, and a psychiatrist at the Bellevue Hospital in New York. The stories Karloff tells revolve around such supernatural phenomena as messages from beyond the grave, psychic premonitions, and other paranormal events. These hair-raising tales will have you on the edge of your seat in disbelief over the freaky phenomena unfolding before your very eyes…and wondering if they're true! FEATURING 10 EPISODES: Crystal Ball; Food on the Table; Doctors; Destination Nightmare; Genesis; Vision of Crime; Girl on the Road; Jack the Ripper; Summer Heat; Return of Madam THE TERROR When Napoleonic cavalry soldier Lt. Andre Duvalier (Jack Nicholson) becomes separated from his unit, he comes upon a mysterious woman named Helene (Sandra Knight) along the coast of Germany. The lieutenant is immediately taken with Helene but quickly becomes suspicious of her actions. It seems as if she is leading him into deadly traps: the powerful ocean's tide and pits of quicksand. Things take an even stranger turn when Duvalier seeks refuge at a nearby castle maintained by a baron (Boris Karloff), and Helene unexpectedly appears there. The baron is convinced that Helene is the ghost of his long-departed wife Ilsa, but the lieutenant believes Helene is under a hypnotic spell cast by an old witch who is scheming against the baron—slowly driving him to the brink of madness in an act of ruthless revenge... THE BAT The setting of this murder mystery is a proverbial old, dark, and creepy mansion leased for the summer by Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead), an eccentric mystery writer who finds inspiration for her novels in her eerie surroundings. But soon after Cornelia moves in, it seems as if one of her mysteries has sprung to life when a strange prowler, who is later dubbed The Bat, breaks into the mansion clad in a fedora, mask, and gloves outfitted with razor-sharp metal claws. The Bat terrorizes Cornelia and her maid and then commits a gruesome act of murder. The frightened novelist, refusing to fall victim to the masked marauder, resolutely sets out to expose the killer's true identity and get to the bottom of the mystery by turning the tables on the vile villain.