At the house, Jacko, still searching for the bracelet, hides in the bathroom and cruelly watches Sarah get undressed to take a bath, then searches through her clothes on the floor for his lost bracelet. When Sarah unintentionally grabs his hand while reaching for her clothes, he then attempts to drown Sarah in the bath, but Steve returns just in time to rescue her. Interviewed in 1997, writer Brian Clemens recalled that he wrote the script 'on spec' and Columbia Pictures told him: "'Well, if Mia Farrow plays the lead, we'll buy it,' and she read it and liked it, and so they bought it and we shot it.'" The film was a co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States. Filming took place in Berkshire, England, with a mainly British cast and crew. Its theatrical release in the United States was 'a box office disappointment' and reviews were 'generally mixed'. "The New York Times" wrote: "See No Evil has its share of thrills. Cheap thrills, to be sure, but thrills none the less - and everything in the rest of Richard Fleischer's new movie... encourages us to value small favors. Attempting on the one hand to mean something and on the other hand trying to crank up the terror, Fleischer keeps suggesting confrontations between the rich and the poor, the old and the young, families with daughters to protect and men with warped desires. For all the potency of a camera movement, it can never have exactly the power of a conceptual image, and therefore "See No Evil" is better with its mindless terror than with its witless meaning. And although everything becomes far too much long before it is over, the movie is generally at it most ridiculous precisely where it hopes to make sense." "For sheer suspense", wrote "The Palm Beach Post", it "may well be without peer", but, while praising the performance of Mia Farrow, considered the 'fiendish gamut' of injury her character is subjected to could 'only be called sadism'. Screenwriter Brian Clemens was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award. Later reviewers have described the film as a 'creepy, atmospheric thriller', in the style of Terence Young's 1967 film "Wait Until Dark", while critic John Derry highlights the way Mia Farrow is presented 'from the first moment' as 'the obvious victim'.