"The film garnered further 1's from G. Noel Gross of DVD Talk, who referred to "Bloody Murder" as "less a horror movie, but more an inane whodunit with the production values of an after school special with a couple dirty words mixed in", and Robert Pardi of "TV Guide", who dismissed "Bloody Murder" as a "generic "Friday the 13th" rip-off" that "is the very model of anonymous filmmaking".In a review for DVD Verdict, Patrick Naugle lambasted the film, writing, "I don't even know where to begin to talk about this movie.