"In his book on slasher movies published in 2004, Jim Harper opined that it was "a marginally better film than "Anthropophagous"" mainly because of its slightly improved pacing, with "gruelling special effects every twelve minutes or so" - which Harper, however, also criticises as "dull and repetitive".According to Harper, D'Amato's camerawork is "as inept as ever", and "any humour [...] entirely unintentional".