Panic in Year Zero! (End of the World)

Panic in Year Zero! (End of the World) (1962)

  • 63% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 63% of users liked it
    (572 ratings)

Ray Milland both starred in and directed the morose, minimalist sci-fier Panic in the Year Zero! (original title: Panic in Year Zero!). En route from Los Angeles to a vacation in the mountains, Harry Baldwin (Milland), his wife, Ann (Jean Hagen), and his teen-aged children, Rick (Frankie Avalon) and… More

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Unrated, 1 hr. 35 min.
Directed By
Ray Milland
Written By
John Morton, Jay Simms
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
In Theaters
Jul 5, 1962 Wide
On DVD
Nov 29, 2005
Orion Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena

    Mais um fruto da paranóia coletiva gerada pela Guerra Fria, o filme conta com algumas boas idéias, mas é esquemático demais para aproveitá-las a contento.

  • Bob Bloom, Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

    A silly atomic war story with the prerequisite AIP juvenile delinquents and cheap look.

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    Intriguing low-budget opus that now seems like a time-capsule of nuclear paranoia

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    The only thing that was hard to fully approve of in Panic in Year Zero!, was Milland's selfish philosophy for survival -- it was simply not a very human one.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    This is a really good apocalyptic movie, with an interesting cast, and a good story. I'd really like to re-watch it, though, I can't remember it very well.

  • First L


    Did Ray Milland's B-movie epic "Panic in the Year Zero" serve as an inspiration for Cormic MaCarthy's "The Road"? I'm not sure. But I do know that just ten short years after starring in "Singin' in the Rain", the beautiful and… More

  • Michael G


    For a movie about the apocalypse, Panic in Year Zero came across as claustrophobic. It's reasonably groundbreaking for its time on a gruesomeness level with a rape scene and by actually showing dead bodies. This movie reminded me of a modern zombie movie without the zombies.… More

  • Daniel H


    The Grapes of Wrath meets Xenophon's Persian Expedition, with healthy amounts of Cold-War propaganda mixed in, and diluted down into a campy 1950's morality tale about what it means to be civilized. You have your characteristic no-good greasers, a young woman in need of… More

  • Bruce B


    Have to give this one 4 1/2 stars, its a great survival movie. And they snuck Frankie Avalon in there on me. And with actors with the first name of Rex, Willis, O.Z., How can a movie be that bad. This movie came out right around the time of the Cuban Missile crisis, and I am sure it… More

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