The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "There are some engaging ideas in this burlesque, but they lie buried fathoms deep beneath an inept script and dispirited direction.

Muldoon, for instance, two weeks a prisoner of headhunters, suffers from the delusion that his head has been shrunk to the size of an apple, but turns out disappointingly to be just another madman in the cellar: and in general the blood-and-thunder is merely a matter of a tarantula in the bed, descending ceiling, and Grandpapa murdered by out-of-reach medicine.

The one positive enjoyment in the film is Andree Melly, made up to look like something reminiscent of the Witch of Endor and delivering every line with fine overtones of vampirism.

There's Valentine Dyall who is creepy and speaks in Lugosi-like tones: Andree Melly has long fingernails and likes blood; Archie Duncan is kept locked in a padded cell: Jack Bligh is an inventor 50 years too late, having just discovered the electric light and put together a horseless carriage.

"[6] The Los Angeles Times wrote that Fisher "had the right idea playing the silly plot for laughs but his snail's pace spoils the show.

"[7] According to Diabolique magazine "The movie is populated by a fine supporting cast of English character actors playing various eccentrics [...] Boone is a solid straight man, and the film is lively.