Reviews from Variety, Kim Newman and other retrospective horror guides have been negative, noting low budget and bad acting.

[3][4] Buster Crabbe was paid $2,000 for his role in the film,[4]one-third less than his salary for the 1945 Western Prairie Rustlers.

[4] Steven Puchalski describes the film a "third rate Night of the Living Dead" with laughable effects, though he calls it "eminently watchable for schlock fanatics".

[8] In a negative review, David Johnson of DVD Verdict states that the gore is sparse and the story boring.

[9] Kim Newman referred to the film as "cheap" and "unwatchable" and described it as part of a trend of "films made by rabid fans of Famous Monsters of Filmland" who "wind up choking on their own in-references and third-hand plots" and were stuck on "cutesy ideas like giving all the characters the names of Roger Corman 1950s repertory company".