Critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert discussed the film on an October 23, 1980 episode of Sneak Previews, and they found the film "gruesome and despicable" and "expressing hatred for woman." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times expressed a similar sentiment, describing it as a "trashy violence-against women jolter."
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, along with Kevin Thomas, expressed negative opinions about the film. They found it to be "gruesome," "despicable," and "expressing hatred for women."