 In comparison to the film in 1928, C. Hooper Trask of "The New York Times" wrote, "if you like this sort of thing you'll find it a superior product.Heinrich Galeen has directed with photographic imagination—no question that the picture has atmosphere".In 1995 a character named "Professor Ten Brincken", in Kim Newman's vampire novel "The Bloody Red Baron," is the 'mad scientist' who creates Alraune.