 Tom Buckley's review in "The New York Times" called it "a cut or two above the recent run of low-budget horror films" and praised the work of "an attractive and professional cast, a rarity in the genre", but noted that it was "undermined by plodding direction and a talky and incoherent script that is short on action, suspense and even the gore that the title promises".Buckley also criticized the cinematography, which he called "oddly blurry, as though someone had coated the lens with vaseline".AllMovie's review noted