[11] For Birth.Movies.Death, Jacob Knight criticized the "faux true crime show" segments with Daniel Roebuck, regarding them as "hokey" and tonally confusing.

[14] For HeyUGuys, Ben Robins called the film " a full-on adrenaline shot of pure madness that makes little-to-no sense at all".

[15] Cheryl Eddy, writing for Gizmodo, highlighted Crampton's performance and said "though the mystical elements of Dead Night are rather vaguely explained, some delightfully gross creature effects do most of the talking on that front".

[16] Abbey Bender, of Village Voice, wrote "Dead Night ends up being muddled, never committing to either solemn supernatural horror or its elements of camp.

"[17] RogerEbert.com's Peter Sobczynski said "It has a couple of interesting ideas, a certain degree of style and one impressive performance but never manages to pull them together into a cohesive or satisfying whole.