Warren said that although "the production values are good for a low budget film, and the entire movie has a certain crispness...the story is preposterous" and the film is a "sluggish slumgullion of fantasy and science fictional ideas". To Warren, "Curse of the Faceless Man" was primarily a "pedestrian, preposterous film that works up a little interest by the end, but it is too late and not enough to save the picture". He further noted that "the story is hopeless" and that the film "often looks as if it had no director at all". He called the camerawork "perfunctory". Warren did point out that the film was made at a time when reincarnation was a "hot topic" because of the publicity surrounding the then-current "Bridey Murphy business" and that reincarnation was "dropped into the film", which was otherwise "science fiction because that's what audiences of 1958 were buying".