Reviews from critics were very negative. Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" called the film "an especially clumsy, overwrought example of slash-and-hack melodrama ... The laughs here are not intentional." "Variety" wrote that the film, "though artless, is terror-crammed and bloody enough to appeal to the raunchy circuit trade." Gene Siskel of the "Chicago Tribune" gave it half a star out of four and called it "yet another depressing sickie-with-knife-chasing-women picture." He found it "shocking and depressing" that Grant and Shatner appeared in it, asking, "Do these people really need a paycheck that badly?"