[2] For his performance in the film Ernesto Mahieux won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor.

[5] The film concerns competing personal and sexual relationships.

[6] The Embalmer has an approval rating of 81% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 32 reviews, and an average rating of 6.8/10.

The website's critical consensus states: "Intriguingly creepy and unsettling".

[7] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 71 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".