 In the tradition of The Asylum's catalog, "Hansel & Gretel" is a mockbuster of the Paramount Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/MTV film "", which it preceded by five days.Scott Foy of Dread Central rated it 3/5 stars and called it "a perfectly okay horror movie" after seeing a misleading pull quote of his comments in a previous article used as ad copy.Mark L. Miller of AICN wrote that the film has "a few worthwhile and creative scenes of grue and gore" but frequently descends into tedious torture porn.