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Good movie but grossly overrated

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One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

When you've got a lead character in the person of an army captain named Kirk, this should give you some idea of how seriously to take this film. I don't recall in the film whether his first name was mentioned.David Warbeck is Captain Kirk and he's on a mission for the British Army which is in Panic mode in Panic. It seems that a certain scientist got badly exposed to some of his bacterial experiments and turns into a flesh eating fiend. Fortunately for the human race his experiments were in a small English town. Not so fortunate for the residents of said town where the army is seriously considering just euthanizing the place lest the spread grow. As it is they've quarantined the joint.Janet Agren plays the scientists assistant who would like to help her boss if possible. She's working on the antidote, but will Captain Kirk let her use it. He'd like to save the town, but he's not terribly concerned about the scientist.Panic is a strange Italian made film that was shot in England concerning an English subject and locale. Getting a couple of British players to do the film in David Warbeck and Janet Agren gave it a British veneer of sorts. Still it really doesn't rise beyond most slasher flicks.

Given some sort of bacteriological event, would things happen this way. It seems like they threw the baby out with the bathwater, deciding to exterminate a whole segment of a city in order to get rid of one random creature. He shouldn't be that hard to catch. This is bad enough, but it is filled with bad acting, unbelievable scenes, and a monster that doesn't really show himself until the very end. The young woman lead figures she can reason with this tub of goo. It does have Captain Kirk (no, not that one). Maybe that's it's main feature. The pacing is horrible and it drags one forever. Like so many of these films, it has either deteriorated or it never was filmed very well. Don't bother.

I picked this up in a pack of fifty films and was pleasantly surprised to find out it was filmed where I live, St Mary Cray in the United Kingdom so had the added bonus of sight seeing around my home town many years before I was even born let alone live here.The plot is well oiled in the old 'science run amok' mode and this film is quite close to The Incredible Melting Man' in many respects only not as gory and not having the talents of said films fx crew or production (and thats saying something!)It does seem though that a few plot lines that could have made the film run better are passed over quite quickly in order to push the film along, saving grace goes to good old David Warbeck for hamming it up and putting a straight face on proceedings throughout.All in all a good way to pass an hour and a half but when the story has been done a thousand times before and after there are better offerings out there.

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.