From contemporary reviews, Howard Barnes of "The New York Herald-Tribune" found the film "singularly unexciting" finding John Fulton's special photography as "the most striking aspect of the picture the tricks have been done too often before by the camera to make them particularly effective by themselves." Wanda Hale of "The New York Daily News" echoed this statement, finding that "the frightening creature [... is no novelty" and that the film was "not the stimulating thriller that "The Invisible Man" was." A reviewer in "The New York World-Telegram" declared that "some of the earlier variations of H.G. Wells' invisible man idea were filmed with an idea that the story should make good sense. That policy has been abandoned this time" while still noting that Jon Hall was being "a much more effective actor than he has been in some of his recent adventures in gaudy Technicolor." Conversely, a reviewer from "The Hollywood Reporter" declared it as one "of the best and most entertaining of the series"