 In all of these countries, excepting Spain, it received a limited release with little marketing support.In a contemporary review, Robin Wood reviewed a dubbed 88 minute version of the film titled "Blood Brides".Wood noted that the film contained several examples of Wood described as "Bava's claim to attention [...] he usually photographs as well as directs his films, they are very sonsciously conceived in terms of potentialities of the camera and as a result are, in a somewhat curde sense, 'cinematic'."