 "Cinepunx", admitting the film was "exceptionally, peerlessly excruciating...a fleshy, unsightly "Groundhog Day" of torturous porn purgatory", called it a "genuinely fascinating time capsule of regional filmmaking", noting "any fan of oddball trash cinema owes themselves at least one viewing of this strange, cinematic car crash".FilmMonthly singled out "Bat Pussy" as "a bizarre artifact", "unquestionably one of the strangest, most mysterious, and most outrageously entertaining" title in Something Weird's archives and "spectacularly un-erotic", calling it a "must-have" for exploitation fans.