Stereogum described "Rabbit In Your Headlights" as a "haunting deconstructed piano ballad ... a smoky jazz horror show that blasts Yorke's supernatural falsetto into the bowels of hell".
Pitchfork wrote that the tunnel evoked the fatal car crash of Princess Diana the previous year and "walking toward the light at the end of one's life".
"[6] In 2021, Rolling Stone named the video the 28th-greatest of all time, writing that it was a "prime example of sustaining a sense of mounting dread and delivering an odd yet thrilling payoff" and that Glazer had "found that Venn diagram centre of creepy and ecstatic he'd been chasing".
[7] In 2016, Pitchfork credited "Rabbit in Your Headlights" as a "turning point" for Yorke, placing his vocals in the context of experimental electronic music for the first time and foreshadowing Radiohead's 2000 album Kid A.
"[1] Yorke's side project Atoms for Peace performed "Rabbit in Your Headlights" on their 2013 tour, with the bassist, Flea, reciting the Jacob's Ladder dialogue.