peter hartlaub, writing for "san francisco chronicle", said, "despite the fact that three huge dogs are pictured on the cover, two hellhounds appear in the movie – and they're only a little bit bigger than regular dogs. "silver spoons" was scarier than this." a reviewer for "dread central" said, "a pack of satanic marmadukes would have been more frightening." justin felix of "dvd talk" wrote, "rent it, if you're a fan of the maneater series and like this sort of thing. (i can honestly say i've seen worse from the series.) all others can safely skip it."