Despite how some black audiences received the film, others abhorred it. Linda Gross of the "Los Angeles Times" hated the film and described it as “rot”, with the exception of Tak Fujimoto’s cinematography and the presence of both Marie O’Henry and the Watts Towers. Gross despised the campy writing and thought that the “authenticity also sorely lacking." Gross and others purely looked at the cinematic aspects of the film, while others, like Douglass and the "Atlanta Daily World", took the film for what it was – a poorly-funded blaxploitation horror film that was directed by a black director trying to send messages and themes through film to his audience.