Hidden behind a Phantom of the Opera mask and make-up for his previous Night Gallery appearance, Leslie Nielsen is more recognisable this time around, although he does sport an eye patch and a bushy moustache, and his hair isn't white. Dr. Mazi (Fritz Weaver) thinks he might be able to change that last detail: he challenges fearless Colonel Dennis Malloy (Nielsen) to spend a night in the haunted house that caused his own hair to go white. If he can survive the night without dying of fright, the colonel will receive $10,000.
A night of eerie events ensues, but Malloy manages to keep his calm, making it through to morning, when Mazi reveals his true colours: he is seeking revenge for his father, who Malloy tortured during World War II. He informs the colonel that, while he was asleep, he was injected with a serum that will slowly turn him into an earthworm. Now that is something I would have loved to have seen... Leslie Neilsen transformed into a writhing worm... but it doesn't happen. The colonel shoots himself instead, after which Mazi reveals that he was bluffing. I wanted an earthworm Leslie Nielsen, goddammit! I feel cheated.
Tale number two is wholly predictable: during WWII, the German army arrives at a castle in the Balkans which they suspect is the HQ of the resistance. No prizes for guessing that the count who owns the castle is Dracula and his servants are werewolves.
A night of eerie events ensues, but Malloy manages to keep his calm, making it through to morning, when Mazi reveals his true colours: he is seeking revenge for his father, who Malloy tortured during World War II. He informs the colonel that, while he was asleep, he was injected with a serum that will slowly turn him into an earthworm. Now that is something I would have loved to have seen... Leslie Neilsen transformed into a writhing worm... but it doesn't happen. The colonel shoots himself instead, after which Mazi reveals that he was bluffing. I wanted an earthworm Leslie Nielsen, goddammit! I feel cheated.
Tale number two is wholly predictable: during WWII, the German army arrives at a castle in the Balkans which they suspect is the HQ of the resistance. No prizes for guessing that the count who owns the castle is Dracula and his servants are werewolves.