 Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" noted that the pacing was at times slow, but praised the performance of Fiona Lewis, and concluded that the film "belongs to two movie species, both of them nearly extinct.It's a 1950s mad-scientist movie, or at least a very fond and painstaking reincarnation of same.And it's a small, original, offbeat film of the sort that is out of fashion."