Panic (1982)

Cast:

David "Wasn't just only in Fulci's Beyond" Warbeck is Captain "Not from the starship Enterprise..." Kirk
Janet Agren is Jane Blake
Roberto Ricci is Professor Adams
José Lifante is Sergeant O'Brien
Miguel Herrera is Doctor Vince

What the DVDsays:

A British research scientist is working with various forms of bacteria when he is accidentally exposed to a deadly variety due to a lab accident. The exposure transforms the scientist into a hideous, flesh-eating monster and he begins a rampage in the local community that has the government considering whether or not to destroy the entire town to contain the problem.

Plot:

The head of a large bio-chemical corporation is told of a lab accident. He keeps from telling the lab researchers what has happened to the head of their department and claims that Dr. Adams is "fishing."

Elsewhere, at a car, couple is attacked by a monster that gets the guy first and then the girl.

The scientists try to study the lab accident but don't have Adams's research.

Do I look scientific enough perplexed by the lab?

The police investigate the murders of the couple.

Captain Kirk, the security officer questions the lab scientists. Jane and Captain Kirk investigate Adams's house and find his guard, dead. Jane studies the body and finds some strange biological matter on it.

Kirk meets with police officer Sgt. O'Brien . They start to think that there might be a connection between the lab accident, Adams's disappearance, and the murders.

The monster is still roaming around the city. The police are investigating and find the bodies are too low on blood and other strange facts.

The corporation bigwigs want to keep the experiment and the accident a secret. One of the guys want to destroy the city.

Kirk is informed of the quarantine and to handle the problem. O'Brien and him are still searching for Adams.

Let the military quarantine the city. Lockdown ensues...

At a movie theater, the monster rips through the screen which causes the audience to panic. Well, the monster finds his next meal.

Kirk talks with Jane that Dr Adams is the monster killing the cityfolk.

Why do you keep asking if I captain the Enterprise?

The monster is running loose through the city.

Remember this is the face of the other person who wants to be your facebook friend...
He chases kids into a church. The priest slows him down long enough for the kids to escape.

Kirk and O'Brien try to hold a group of angry cityfolk from storming the roadblock. Well, every city has to have a group that gets them shot at to scare them away.

Kirk and O'Brien meet with Jane to think of a way to kill the monster. They discover that the monster attacked the head of the company's mansion and escaped into the city sewer system. Kirk heads off into the sewers and tries shooting at the monster to no avail. He's barely saved by the police who scare the monster off. They come up with the idea of trying to use nerve gas.

The bigwigs are planning to crash a plane to destroy the city.

Kirk and O'Brien get the gas to flood the sewer tunnels. They are searching the tunnels. Jane is searching and tries talking with the monster to use the newly discovered antidote on it.

The plane is flying closer to the city.

Kirk shoots the monster with gas. The monster fights with O'Brien before the death-thralling of the monster. Kirk and Jane manage to radio London to stop the mission which gets the plane mission to be cancelled.

What I say:

The 1970s/1980s Italian horror/genre movies have to be almost be as infamous as the 1950s/1960s Japanese Kaiju movie... The late 1970s saw the start of the zombie movies that tried to be homages to Romero's Dawn of the Dead which is just a nicer way than saying trying to rip off. Well, Panic looks like it tooked some off from the Andromeda Strain.

A number of video games have the bio-weapon that have to be destroyed. We've seen what has happened with a number of the medical virus thrillers of the 1990s like Outbreak. Well, the video game movies have a number of bio-weapon pseudo-medical thrillers: Parasite Eve. However, that isn't the end of them: Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and Resident Evil: Extinction have had the loose zombies that must be stopped. More Milla Jovovich movies aren't a bad thing: Ultra Violet.

Another greedy mega-corporation has a lab experiment and doesn't want the truth to come out about any flesh-eating creation running rampant and ensure the nearby city to be destroyed to prevent anything from getting out. Well, good thing that only happens in fiction. This maybe one of the only horror movies that doesn't have a reporter investigating behind the rest of everyone. However, that doesn't count when a military officer is doing the investigating on the greedy mega-corporation.

What got cut from this movie? Some scenes are so very jumpy as to autoamatically look like they were cut from a longer version. We can't expect that the 100 movie DVD set is going to be the super-restored version. It doesn't seem to make sense to have the scientist turned monster to run around the city, have the soldiers quarantine the city, the police search for the monster unaware of everything else, and Captain Kirk on his secret mission (to find out about the company's accident, stop the monster, etc...). The monster should have tied all the characters together.

Well, Captain Kirk, Sgt O'Brien, and Jane seem to be the only characters. Most of the others only pop up for a a couple of scenes. This isn't the kind of movie to expect any great characters especially with it being dubbed. Can't be sure if the voice is that bad or just from someone reading off a script in a voice studio...

Well with a credit after end credits like this...
WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN
MIGHT REALLY HAPPEN... PERHAPS IT ALREADY HAS!
It has to deserve a little respect...

Dubbed Quotable Dialogue
"Fishing, are you sure?"
"Not the best way to treat a lady..."
"Wash your grubby little hands."
"Captain Kirk, Sergent O'Brien?"
"I need 2 units of Necron!"
Morals of the Story
Bio-hazards aren't big problems to large corporations.
The best way to hide in a warehouse from a killer monster is to scream.
Movie theaters allow ice cream cones to be brought in from outside.
Romans loved sewer systems.
"Captain Kirk" doesn't get many Star Trek jokes.