Panic (disambiguation)

Panic is a sudden, overwhelming fear.

Panic may also refer to:

Psychology, sociology and politics

• Mass hysteria, the manifestation of the same or similar hysterical symptoms by more than one person
• Financial crisis, a variety of situations in which some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value
• Bank run, when a large number of bank customers withdraw their deposits because they believe the bank is, or might become, insolvent
• PANIC (Prevent AIDS Now Initiative Committee), the activist group behind the 1986 initiative statute California Proposition 64
• Moral panic

Music

Performers

• The Panics, an indie rock band from Australia
• Black Flag (band), originally named Panic, a punk rock group
• Panic, rock band formed in 1981, the first band of Dave Mustaine, later of Metallica and Megadeth
• Panic! at the Disco, an American rock band sometimes referred to simply as "Panic!" for short

Musical works

• Panic (MxPx album), a 2005 album by MxPx
• Panic (Circle album), a 2007 album by the Finnish rock band Circle
• The Panics (EP 1), a January 2002 EP by The Panics
• The Panics (EP 2), a July 2002 EP by The Panics
• "Panic" (The Smiths song), a 1986 song by The Smiths
• "Panic/Tainted Love", a 1985 single by Coil
• "Panic", a 1995 composition for alto saxophone, jazz drum kit and orchestra by Harrison Birtwistle
• "Panic", a song by Anthrax from Fistful of Metal
• "Panic", a song by Backstreet Boys from Unbreakable
• "Panic", a song by Coil from Scatology
• "Panic", a song by No Doubt from Everything in Time
• "Panic" (Sublime with Rome song), a 2011 song by Sublime with Rome from Yours Truly
• "Panic", a song by X-Wife from Side Effects

Other media

• Panic!, a 1993 video game for Sega CD
• Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, a non-fiction book by Michael Lewis
• Panic (comics), a 1950s EC Comic
• "Panic" (Dead Zone), an episode of the TV series Dead Zone
• Panic (novel), a 2005 thriller by Jeff Abbott
• Panic (1982 film), an Italian / Spanish film directed by Tonino Ricci
• Panic (1963 film), a British crime film
• Panic (2000 film), a film starring William H. Macy
• PANICS, a 2005 machinima film

Computing

• Panic (company), an Apple Macintosh software development company
• Kernel panic, a fatal error condition associated with Unix-like computer operating systems
• Panic (demo), a 1992 PC demo by Future Crew

Places

• Panic, a village in Hereclean Commune, Sălaj County, Romania

People

• Panić, an ethnic Serbian surname