With the edginess removed (gone were the bloody guillotine, the spit and the skewered baby dolls, although "Only Women Bleed" presented a drunken, physically abusive side to the character), the Welcome to My Nightmare show was part a carefully planned move toward a more mainstream-friendly 'Alice'.

Set in a graveyard/bedroom, a well-drilled band ran through the new album and a selection of older hits, while Alice encountered giant spiders, dancing skeletons, faceless silver demons and a 9-foot 'cyclops'.

In his review published in the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Thomas praised it saying that it "is a slick, Vegas-type show, fairly cleverly assembled to string together a large slice of Cooper's ghoulish-accented shlock rock".

While she liked the opening credits, showing's Cooper evolution through personal portrait, that moving forward it was simply a string of dance numbers that ended abruptly.

[5] Essi Berelian of Louder Sound liked it and said "a cult favourite, capturing a show perfectly tuned to insidiously slipping Cold Ethyl, Steven and Devil’s Food further into the mainstream.