极度恐慌\%*1983

PANIC BEATS begin=]s with a totally nude_; woman with welts on her b+ody,%^ running thro!ugh a mist?[@y^^ f orest full =of  decaye#+d .\skelet]ons . A knig ht on ho@@rse\!bac$,k is chasin[$g !her,%. and we */soon  learn t# hat( he.,
is Alaric de_ Marn:ac (a wicked c%h?)-aract)@er Naschy f.=irst creat#_ed for HO -^RROR ; RI;_SES FROM THE ),$TOMB), ! `:viciously;]+ killing her for her\ unfaith!ful ways. Af,]ter t he cre*/+dits!- role, `we ?are take +n to the present,-]; -^where a? descendent of Marnac *#]nam;ed Pa$ ul (Na? [schy) is married #to the wealthy_ G]?enevi%!ève (J ulia Saly) was has .#some serious`? heart pro-(blem
s. Paul`=+ decides to take her to his % ancestral ho
!me in =:the,# country for some* p?/;\e?_ace and quiet, .
_but the su$#per\+$s^tit(ious-f?+illed setti%,
(ng open\s/// a =Pa/*n:$` d*:ora_%!’s Box o[ ?f ter $r+*ib\le !_occ(urrences.+/　　We soo=-n dis: co#/+ver that P%)aul `!i \s a rea,!/l son-of]??-a-bitc$h who plan s )]$.to,-# sca,; #r=e his wife to d[-
:eath, pl ,\]anni+n`.g  ,to con;tro- ) l. her f`ortune and continue %\his sec**ret  ;affai \+r w =ith$._/_ seductive b(/,a/d gir+l Mireil#-_ le,)- (S.+ilvia =Mir]ó), #:(who
$happens to be the niece =of the tarot card-re/%ad=ing housek!eeper], _)Mabil-$e (`#Lola G$aos). Paul _’s malev^(olen?*t`^:: scheme works, but he -[!:still has =to wor-ry abo !_ut an add%iti; /onal: mo/]ne-y-hungry m$=_istress (this guy really gets around!), th%e unforgivi@ng  Mabile, as] `wel@l as new \*fianceé Mireille who migh;!t be ]\hidin!;^g a t^hing or two h )erse
$lf. Mor%e grisly murd!(.ers follow- , and the ghost of$!-[ Mar+;nac returns fr,]#om hell to+) punish the most *$$despica!-ble human c-+hara,;]ct ^()e ^r in the (+film.　　PANI C BEAT\.S wa%?s  a`#lso wri-tten by Naschy (un$der his real /
;nam/+e Jacinto Molina\) w h` o inj:.,ects *the film %_
[with an old-fashioned spo.oky[_@: house m $ot@)i]f,( beefed up (+]with a mod!\ern :[mo ^vie s
=ens
-- e of violen $ce and s_+ex?-?ualit+]\y. T]h;-e film o%(f/-+fers nothin g too innov` ative 
/st+?orywise,=+;_ and even Naschy ]!admits on t:$)he d+[ isc’s extra^*s :=tha
%^/t it was par-^$tly %i nspired by G:%`?ASLIGHT and RE/BECC A, but#^` h.,e seems to )just toss in: ;^..(a hodge(,podge of exploitation#) and =^^horror ing!]-redients, while )=delivering a % styl
_!ish and\? `!;*enjoyable effort wit=h a number of twists and /some/ genuinely chil` .ling moments. The : camera shots and lighting a/*re b-oth effectiv,:e, and the r@/ /e's even does@ a cool set-up (^])m*uch li`%ke what Freddie Fran[/(cis did,\ in (\:T )HE SK@-UL=^L =)and THE CREEPING* ; FL]ESH) where we see t[[he po;(i nt of \view of Marnac t/hrough%@ his d[ark h^;elme,t as h,!e stal;=ks$:.[ his-
. female prey. %\+ Graphically, we are!  )#e_xp_,+osed ^[to e\_veryt`hi:ng from a;*) , plate of bloody eye$balls, t=*-+o victims=: being/` beat=#`en r/*elent[\:^less+ !ly with th e. v _ari @ous Medieval weapons affixe^
d *on the h -+ouse’s wa^?
lls (for example, someone i,(!s%. axed
? in the% stoma
 ch, fol
`/lowed by). the s oake_d entrails oozin!g out!)_. Naschy’/s most -%(frequent 1=;980s leading*,_ la[dy, -]J
?ulia Saly, is no;t giv\\en\ much -t_:o do, but wi=th h. #er offbeat looks, is a % nice \% pre/sence nonethel* ess. The prominent female :; :star here is(# Silvia M(iró who is! s\, `een i*+n the, buff frequently,(  and s+he certa?_[inly*= makes; for__ s\+*ome we*?ll-apprecia=ted:: Euro starlet e`^ye candy. Naschy himsel-^f is very[ good in the_` fi: lm, put*ting^  on ;conni@ving facades,. ca r/![rying \(a number ,$,[%of wom @]en # ( o*n a st ;ring,