Contemporary critical reviews of the film have been mixed: Film scholar John Stanley gave the film a favorable review in his 1995 book, writing: "Director John Hancock is to be congratulated for a multi-layered horror film with frightening visuals. There isn't much logic to the story, yet the overall effect is unsettling... the film has a dream-like quality." AllMovie deemed it an "eerie low-budget chiller." Film scholar Gary A. Smith remarked Lampert's performance as Jessica as "laid back to the point of somnambulism. Lampert gives a performance so overwrought that it has to rank as one of the most eccentric ever captured on film."