a contemporary review in the "monthly film bulletin" referred to the film as "an engaging horror film [...] the beginning is a trifle comatose with its self-consciously stylish slow tracks and compositions [...] it gradually gathers momentum while developing a nice line in comic grotesquerie with its furtively lecherous innkeeper" the review commented on barbara steele in the film noting that she "gets little chance to display the grand manner in her comparatively breif role, but the acting in general is sound (enormously helped by the fact that the leading players would appear to have dubbed their own dialogue)."