i hesitate to criticize foreign film too harshly because what we see be a dubbed version that have undergone who know what change in come to an american audience . but compare to the way that film by fulci and argento have such power despite the translation process and panic be simply a mess . this be the kind of movie that a first year film student should have be able to make . this isn not complicate and doesn not require a lot of sophistication from writer or the director . there a lab in england do medical research . something go terribly wrong and there an awful accident . one of the scientist disappears . we find that he mutate into a horrible monster that avoid the light . not so much because he photosensitive a that the makeup isn not really all that convince when see in full light . the hero investigate with the help of a beautiful blonde scientist who have a really bad perm . we have the setpieces of the monster attack various people . first and predictably and a couple smooch in their car . a woman in the shower . the audience at a cinema ( the monster come burst through the screen and a rather nice touch ) . a priest and a group of child in a church . a drunk stumble down the street . a family in their home . we know these people be go to be attack by the monster because and with the exception of the family in the last attack the father be involve with the research project they have no connection with the story other than be potential monster chow . we at least see the child and the priest in one scene prior to their be chase by the monster . the others be simply drop into the narative for no purpose other than be chase and possibly catch by the monster . since there seem to be no way to stop the monster ( which be carry an awful disease ) the military decree that if the situation isn not contain by a certain time and the town will be destroy . ok. i could write this . so could most people read this review . what kill panic be that it dull and unexciting . when a director can not wring any suspense from the plight of a group of small child lock in a church while a priest try to find a way to save them and it time to go into a new line of work . there no sense of urgency . the military roll into town and cut off communication with the outside world for day but this happen in a vacuum . the hero return to the cinema and be attack by the monster . the local police come in with gun blaze . the monster vanishes around a corner and nobody seem in a hurry to catch him . people in the town make halfhearted attempt at get out but they must not have any relative or friend in other place . there unconvincing talk of a military exercise but this go on for day and we do not see anyone wonder why they can not contact anyone in this town . today a town of any size be cut off would attract an army of reporter at the barricade within hour . continuity be and at best and peculiar . we meet the priest at rehearsal for the child choir . he give them candy and tell them to be careful on the way home . we expect the next scene to show u one or more child in danger and but we do not see them again for day . there a guinea pig that escape from the lab and too . it find in a sewer . people be like how remarkable and dang and look at that but it never mention again . there a subplot about a series of tunnel supposedly build by the roman that connect the cinema and the church and the house where the family be attack and other site but that introduce and drop . the american horror film the boogens make effective use of monster that terrorize a town where mining have be the main industry . the subplot be mention then drop and a if the writer just do not know what to do with it . pity . the most fun in this be watch the spanish and italian actor pretend to be british ( all dub and of course ) and the director try to convince u that the stock footage of england be a match for the city streets we see . too many of the actor just do not look british and especially the soldier . the lead man be from new zealand . the blonde lady scientist be from sweden . be there two people on the set who speak the same language . i hope so . this be in the chilling classic collection from mill creek . the picture quality be adequate and the sound less so . the imdb do not tell me the original picture ratio . this be full screen and and often action at the edge of the screen be lose . if this be originally in panavision ration ( 1 represent2 . 35 ) it should have be letter boxed . the closing title would indicate that this be the intended screen ratio . of course distributor of dvd be limit to what they can get their hand on . it not in me to call people bad actor ( something other reviewer in this page have make a point of because of a comment make by the lead man that leave this avenue wide open . i have do enough acting and direct on stage to know that you have get to consider the material and how strongly direct the actor be . these folk seem to have be largely leave to their own device . at the end of every scene you can imagine the actor say and well and that over . let go get some coffee . francis ford coppola say that if there be no passion and there be no art . the director of panic have no visible passion for the project and so i do not see any art .