Brian Lauder presents-Panic in the Year Zero

Panic in the Year Zero
Hello again! I’m Dr. Brian Lauder and I’ve come this time to tell you about a suspense filled movie that is as relevant today as it was in 1962, when it was released.
Back when everyone thought the big bombs would drop any day, movies about world war were released all the time. Tragic tales of the survivors that ran through the late eighties, when the cold war finally came to an end.
This movie was terribly exciting to me as a kid. Later, I feared it wouldn’t be as heart pounding, but it was more so.
It begins with a family readying a camper trailer for a trip into the woods. Fishing, hunting and connecting with nature were their goals.
They take off with their boat of a car pulling the camper into the mountains east of Los Angeles. Soon after they escape the confines of the city, a nuclear bomb is dropped on the city.
Before the rest of the world wakes to the news, the father, Ray Milland, knows he needs to stock up on food and ammunition for the turbulent times sure to come. He spends all the cash he has at a smalltown grocery store, and then, in a hardware store for the tools, more guns and ammunition, he tries to write a check. The owner won’t take it and informs them they have a wait for the firearms, but the father knows there is no waiting. He leaves the check and takes the things they’d collected, rushing off to the woods.
The action doesn’t stop there. In these stories, the truth of human nature comes in the form of hooligans that are out to take advantage of the fearful and the unprepared.
This isn’t an easy movie to watch, by any means. I did find myself taking mental notes, however, instead of judging the lead characters. He was looking out for his family. He knew what he must do to accomplish that. Finding a place to hunker down and defend your loved ones and yourself. Protecting your supplies, everything that a person should do in such a scenario.
It was a movie before it’s time as it was of it’s time. The threats of the greater world are always with us as a society. War, violence, threats to our families and friends are hard to deal with, but movies like this give you a sense that, no matter the situation, keeping your head is the most important thing to survive.
Trigger warnings: Rape, kidnapping, violence, war, nuclear bomb. 

You can find Dr. Lauder in many of Rain's books, but his origin story is Second Chances, book one in Denver Diaries