Perversions of Science E7: Panic (1997)

In the 1930s, Bob (Jason Lee) and John (Jamie Kennedy) are just two guests of a Halloween party where everyone is losing their minds over the Mercury Theatre production of The War of the Worlds. It gets out of hand as people start turning up dead.

What a cast! Harvey Korman, Larraine Newman, Edie McClurg, Kria Reed, Tracey Middendorf, Steve Monroe, Bryce Ingman and the one person you should never trust: Chris Sarandon. He’s the Orson Welles! Tobe Hooper directs! Andrew Kevin Walker, who also wrote Brainscan, 8mm and Se7en, scripted!

Yes, somehow all of these people joined to make an episode where the alien threat isn’t a hoax and Harvey Korman has flown through the stars to sodomize Jason Lee and Jamie Kennedy.

This is taken from the story “Panic!” in Weird Science #15 — numbered issue four — and it was written and drawn by Al Feldstein. In that story, a radio station replays the show years later and no one panics, but when a real invasion happens, no one pays attention when a Jupiter ship lands.

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