Shot in Mexico in 1987 under the original title Dimensiones ocultas (“Hidden Dimensions”) and released internationally as Don’t Panic, Rubén Galindo Jr.’s film was built from the start to pass as an American slasher: shot in English, aimed at U.S. and European video shelves rather than a domestic Mexican audience. George is credited on screen as special effects designer. The surviving credit does not divide fabrication from on-set operation.
The television-screen gag shows a demonic, distorted face pushing forward through what looks like the television’s surface, warping it like liquid skin. The available sources do not explain the membrane or rig. The Virgil, claw-slash, and throat-tear effects use visible prosthetic pieces, but their materials are undocumented here.
Before Vinegar Syndrome’s 2020 restoration put the film’s credits back in front of people, it circulated mostly as a low-visibility VHS-era curio.