The film is about Dr. Paul Coriolos who has grafted a human face onto an ape, and sends it out to capture people and bring them back to his home to be tortured and killed.

[6] Movie Picture World stated that the film "offers an excellent ensemble of high-class fantastic mystery, sometimes of the 'creepy' sort, with romance woven into the skein of things in liberal measure."

and that the film was "quite from thee average run of 'mystery thrillers,' this one brings sustained interested coupled with laughs, excellent direction and a well told story.

"[6] Sidne Silverman of Variety dismissed the film declaring it a "Silly and a waste of time" stating that "This picture hasn't got enough sense to it to even create an illusion of horror.

"[6] The Washington Post declared it "an especially eerie picture so packed with ominous episodes and appalling apparitions prowling around the home of a renegade scientist at midnight that nobody's nerves are safe."

"[6] The New York Times wrote two reviews of the film, the first declaring it "quite a good entertainment weakened by the levity forced upon it [...] the subject really has enough of a story to deserve more serious treatment.

"[7] Wrestler and actor George Kotsonaros, who specialized in roles with names like "battling Roff", Butch" and "Iron Mike" was described by Variety as giving "the best performance in the picture.