Panic in the Year Zero!

It’s amazing what a solid script can do for a movie with no production design to speak of and that was filmed in two weeks.

Panic in the Year Zero! was one of the first post-apocalyptic movies of the post-war scifi craze. It looks like it was meant to be just the bottom of a double bill. Cheap to make, easy to pre-sell, and quick to turn a modest profit. What the producers ended up getting wasn’t a great film, but one that holds together shockingly well despite the decades of films in the sa...