Product Details

• Actors: Charly Bravo, Lola Gaos, Carole Kirkham, Silvia Miró, Paquita Ondiviela
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
• Language: Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Mondo Macabra
• DVD Release Date: April 26, 2005
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007ZSHWG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #166,801 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Panic Beats" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

The spirit of a deceased knight returns every 100 years to clean a house by graphicly murdering the women who are making the life of his descendants unbearable. Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 04/26/2005

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great gothic chiller, May 15, 2005

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GialloFan (OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Panic Beats (DVD)

Well-to-do married couple Paul Marnac (Naschy) and Genevieve (Saly) aren't quite
as happy as they appear; Paul's business is in trouble and he's having a fling on
the side with Julie (Ondiviela), a sexy young schemer who's more than happy to
help Paul bump off his frail wife. Fortunately Paul happens to be a descendant
of Alaric de Marnac (the medieval fiend played by Naschy in the earlier Horror
Rises from the Tomb), and legend has it that Alaric returns in knight gear once
every century to clean house of anyone making life miserable for the family.
Other players in the household include Paul's secretary and occasional mistress
Mirielle (MirO) and the creepy housekeeper Mabile (Gaos), who has a habit of
popping up in Julie's nightmares with a bleeding slit throat. Soon death
strikes in this cursed household as the knighted terror returns, but all is
not as it seems...

Having thoroughly explored the possibilities of transposing the classic Universal
monsters to Spain with his series of Waldemar Daninsky werewolf films and one-offs
like Count Dracula's Great Love, here horror icon Naschy takes a stab at William
Castle territory with this fast-paced, nasty, and thoroughly enjoyable fusion of
The Tingler and House on Haunted Hill. With its scheming lovers, trippy dream
sequences, and even a woman terrorized by a ghoul rising from a bathtub and
other horrors lying in wait outside, this ode to the master of screen gimmickry
features enough knots in its plot to keep viewers guessing. Even the over-the-top
finale is pure Castle, with supernatural horror and murder mystery shenanigans
finally swirling together to produce a hefty body count that ends on a suitably
delirious note. The film features an enjoyable turn from Naschy in a less
sympathetic role than usual and benefits from some heaping dollops of sex
including a lengthy topless bedroom scene, while Naschy-as-director piles
on the gothic visuals with plenty of stylized lighting and quirky camera
tricks. Add to that a typically pulsating score yanked from the CAM library
and you've got one of the stronger early '80s Euro horror titles, which was
strangely never circulated much outside of its native country except in wretched
bootleg editions... until now, that is.

In typically devoted fashion, Mondo Macabro delivers an immacualte, visually
stunning presentation of this rarity in a condition that literally looks like
a completely different film compared to past video editions. Colors are
beautifully saturated, and detail is pin-perfect throughout; this easily earns
its spot as one of their most satisfying visual presentations to date. The mono
Spanish soundtrack features optional English subtitles and sounds fine, with every
booming musical cue and piercing shriek coming through loud and clear. As for
extras, you get a new interview with Naschy in which he warmly talks about his
career, a retro-fitted episode of Eurotika! devoted to Spanish horror, a hefty
still and artwork gallery, and the usual party-worthy Mondo Macabro promo reel

6 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Panic Beats"...more like "Lame Beats", May 13, 2005

By 

Spencer Wendleton (Independence, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Panic Beats (DVD)

I expected this film to be an exciting, atmospheric bloodbath, but that didn't happen. Panic Beats is full of cheap thrills along the lines of many snake in the bed bits with drawn out scenes, boring dialogue (not even funny dialogue), and an unfolding double cross between Naschy and his wife, mistress, and new love interest, and two good gore scenes (the only gore scenes) towards the end.

I was disappointed in this one...there's nothing better from Mondo Macabro than "Lady Terminator."

Skip this one.