It is horror without laughter, horror that is too awful to be modish and too stark to save itself from a headlong plunge into hokum.

[The book] was fast light reading, thanks to the writing, but on celluloid it deteriorates into an unreasonably far- fetched wholesale butcher shop drama which no amount of good acting could save.

Miss Dunne carries off a difficult part with complete success, and Ricardo Cortez makes an able detective.

...a decent-enough, ahead-of-its-time precursor to the slasher genre.