For our final episode of The Veil, we have a look at one of the most infamous real world monsters of all time, Jack the Ripper.
In this atmospheric episode, a London clairvoyant (Niall MacGinnis) is haunted by visions of the Whitechapel murders. Unfortunately, his attempts to help the police only leads to them treating him like a suspect! Each episode of The Veil was usually described as being “based on a true story.” In this case, it’s actually true. A medium named Robert Lees — renamed Walter in this episode — actually did go to the police with claims that he had seen the murders and could identify the killer.
This is the only episode of The Veil in which Boris Karloff acts only as host. That’s because this episode was not originally made for the series. Instead, it was intended for an unrelated British anthology show. The producers of the Veil later bought the episode and tacked on an introduction by Boris Karloff. Of course, because The Veil itself never actually aired on television as a result of the production company running into financial problems, Jack the Ripper never aired in the U.S. It was, however, later included in an anthology film that was put together using four episodes of The Veil.
Enjoy! That’s it for The Veil. Tomorrow, we start a whole new series!
After a rain, a car drives through a puddle and splashes mud on a man’s designer boots. The owner of the boots follows the car back to a country manor and murders everyone inside. (Did he really kill everyone in the house because his boots get muddied? It is never really clear. Before his boots got splashed on, he was looking at violent comic books in a shop. Maybe Wertham was right.) Later, Sarah (Mia Farrow), the niece of the car’s driver, arrives at the house. As the result of a recent horse riding accident, Sarah is blind. She walks through the house, unaware that she is surrounded by dead bodies and unaware that the owner of the boots left behind a bracelet that he will soon be returning to retrieve.
Through the Shattered Lens 