In "Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide" (2012), Glenn Kay called the film "lavishly produced, but not particularly thrilling," adding that it "has a sickening cuteness to it." Vampire fiction scholar John L. Flynn referred to the film as "a hodgepodge of horror film cliches." John Stanley wrote in "Creature Features" (2000) that the film was a "violent TV-movie vacillating between graveyard humor and shock thrills." Academic Peter Dendle noted in "The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia": "Even zombie movie completists will have a hard time stomaching this lame made-for-TV drivel," also comparing elements of the film's dance sequence to that of the Jackson "Thriller" video, and likening other elements of the film to those of "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things" (1972) and "Grease" (1978). Similarly in "Cyborgs, Santa Claus and Satan: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films Made for Television" (2009), media scholar Fraser S. Sherman wrote: "This pointless film spends far too much time with teens partying and dancing, and pays much more attention to visuals than to plot."