You can be sure that the panic in "Panic" was positively pathetic.Yep. Any sort of panic generated in this z-grade, Sci-Fi, "experiment-gone-wrong" picture was strictly bottom-of-the-barrel stuff and that rendered Panic simply worthless as viable entertainment.Any intended urgency or relevance in regards to the viral infection (which afflicted Prof. Adams and sent him on a murderous, flesh-eating frenzy) was truly laughable beyond words.I thought that it was totally hilarious when one minute the hideously mutated Prof. Adams was stalking victims in the very heart of the city and the next moment he was up to no good way out in the tranquil suburbs.I honestly don't think that a horror movie could possibly get much worse than this piece of garbage. Not only that, but this hunk of junk (which was an Italian production) contained the absolute worst dialogue dubbing imaginable.Unfortunately, the unintentional laughs in Panic were just too few and far between.Enough said.

I am working my way through the Chilling Classics 50 Movie Pack Collection and PANIC is the second movie on disk 7.I was watching this before vacation; and, made it to the 55 minute mark. I took a week break; and, finished it today.What would I find wrong with this movie, besides a slow pace, a ridiculous premise, a lead scientist who "guesses" about everything. The British government's plot to kill its own citizens due to a failed experiment it commissioned? Oh, I don't know... How about miserable monster effects? No one being able to stop this monster, despite repeated attempts by the police, the military, and others? The aborted bombing mission that ends so quickly you don't even realize they made radio contact? No epilogue whatsoever; and, hardly any back story, short of two rats fighting in the lab. It was just bizarre! And, could have been so much better.Niggling mistake: Big Ben has TWO different types of chimes -- one long BONG; and, something close to the correct version; but, not quite.

Wow, "Panic" is yet another turd from the so-called "Chilling Classics" box set, a London-filmed epidemic tale sporting an Italian cast and crew, with international celebrities David Warbeck ("The Beyond") and Janet Agren ("Eaten Alive") lending some brand-name recognition the lousy ride. There's not really much to be said for this grade-Z stinker--the plot is the typical pulp of a scientist whose experiment backfires, transforming him into a hideous mutant who spends the film shuffling through the London sewer system in between random lackluster attacks on various characters. There are endless dialog scenes involving scientists, policemen, and government figures talking the issue to death instead of actually DOING something. The performances and dubbing are uniformly atrocious, with Agren seemingly inserted at random to pad the film out. And while Warbeck does his usual tough-guy shtick, the real amusement of "Panic" is the pair of tight-binding white jeans he wears during the last act...never has a bulge been so shamelessly exploited since David Bowie donned tights in "Labyrinth"...but aside from that dubious curiosity, there's really nothing here worth seeing.

Your standard "Frankenstein"esque mad scientist messing around with ill-advised covert bacteriological war experiments premise gets clumsily crossed with a similarly hackneyed crazed killer on the loose story with a dash of that old reliable standby of the deadly plague which could wipe out thousands of folks if it isn't nipped in the bud right away in this energetically cheesy and entertainingly slapdash grab-bag Italian sci-fi/horror thriller. An accident at a top secret government lab turns a professor into a hideously malformed, murderously deranged and seemingly indestructible humanoid beast with scraggly hair, an ugly, bloated, pus-oozing, skin-peeling boil-like face, superhuman strength, a horrid wheezy moan of a voice, and a decidedly antisocial sanguinary disposition. Worse yet, Mr. Unsightly Dementoid Freakshow has a highly lethal and contagious degenerative disease which forces anyone infected with said ailment to bag other people for their precious blood. Naturally, the ghastly mutant goes on a grisly killing spree in Great Britain, attacking a libidinous teenage couple doing just what you think in the back of a car, a lovely young blonde lady in the middle of taking a shower, the audience in a movie theater watching an asinine comedy, a plastered out of his skull drunk, and, best of all, even a priest (yes!). It's up to two-fisted man of action David Warbeck (who carries himself here with the same stolid austerity he brought to such Lucio Fulci flicks as "The Beyond" and "The Black Cat") and fetching femme doctor Janet ("Eaten Alive," "The Gates of Hell") Agren to stop the pitiably grotesque monster before things get disastrously out of hand. Sure, the basic plot is anything but original or inspired, but handy helpings of frequent violence, a grimly serious tone, Gionanni Bergamini's spirited direction, an unerringly fast and steady pace, and the wildly eventful narrative ensure that this baby remains a satisfyingly schlocky affair from start to finish just the same.