The travelers make their way across the Venusian landscape to find a 'sun dome', a shelter with a large artificial light source. 'The Long Rain' - A group of astronauts are stranded on Venus, where it rains continually and heavily.Unlike the original story, the psychologist realises what has happened and is horrified. They later have lunch on the veldt with the child psychologist, who sees the lions feasting. The children trap their parents in the nursery, where they become prey to the lions. The children are not pleased with this decision, but later coolly agree to it. A child psychologist suggests that the automated house is not good for the children's development, and insists they disable the automation and become more self-sufficient. 'The Veldt' - Parents in a futuristic society worry about their children's mental health when their new virtual reality nursery, which can produce any environment the children imagine, continually projects an African veldt populated by lions feasting on carcasses.Willie attempts to kill Carl and then flees into the night, pursued by a still-living Carl, with the audience left undetermined as to Willie's fate. The plot comes to a terrifying conclusion when Willie looks at the only blank patch of skin on Carl's body and sees an image of his own murder at Carl's hands. The tie-in prologue tells of how Carl came to be tattooed after he encountered a mysterious woman named Felicia ( Claire Bloom) in a remote farmhouse. Carl, accompanied by his dog, Peke, tells his tales to Willie, a traveler. The stories are about virtual reality ('The Veldt'), a mysterious planet ('The Long Rain') and the end of the world ('The Last Night of the World'). Set in the backroads of America, the film enacts three of Bradbury's short stories set in the future, with Steiger as a man named Carl telling tales behind some of his tattoos, which he insists are not to be called tattoos, but only ever 'skin illustrations', which come to life and tell the illustration's story when stared at directly. The film is based on three short stories from the 1951 collection The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury: ' The Veldt,' ' The Long Rain,' and 'The Last Night of the World.' The Illustrated Man is a 1969 American dark science fiction drama film directed by Jack Smight and starring Rod Steiger as a man whose tattoos on his body represent visions of frightening futures.

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