The Veil is appropriately the 13th film in the Decrepit Crypt of NIghtmares box set as it's an abominably long TWO HOURS, THIRTY FOUR MINUTES and THIRTY SIX SECONDS! Did we really need an extremely low budget vampire epic of this length especially one from the UK. To really pour mustard in the wound (like in a BJW death match from the early 2000s) almost the entire film is in black and white. Perhaps this is a tribute to NOTLD but it feels more like an insult to both that film and the viewer.
The movie starts out with a vial of some mysterious substance spilling into the water at an English seaside resort. Why this film wasn't called The Vial is beyond me, I imagine The Veil is a reference to the shroud between the realms of life and death. We then get an extended sequence of holiday seekers at a seaside resort set to music that I imagine sounds like something out of Koyaanisqatsi or something despite never having seen that. The music is good regardless. This first part is in color and we switch to black and white for most of the rest of the movie. It's mostly about gas-masked solders with non-descript personalities doing very little while in a house and occasionally blasting some zombies. This actually has a good amount of action but it's so ridiculously long it can help but have extended parts which drag and nothing happens. There's some decent low budget splatter here the highlight being a zombie dismembered with a chainsaw with the top of it's head shorn off, landing on the grown spinning like a top. Soldiers shoot lots of zombies and eventually turn on each other but you won't care because it's just so, so long. There's a bleak ending as well.
I imagine this is a terrifying hurdle for anyone trying to get through this box set but it's a breeze compared to the 130+ minute Abberdine County Conjurer from the Tomb of Terrors. At least stuff happens here and it feels like a film with an actual purpose most of the time. Cut the runtime in half and this would feel like an action-packed and fairly splatterific low budget zombie quickie instead it comes off as a borderline endurance test.