epending for much of its effect on a subtle and poetic nudging of the spectator's imagination, the film has a couple of sequences that are truly terrifying.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Half-baked efforts such as this one provoke little more than a yawn.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
rotten:
It's all confusion, in fact too much for an audience to follow.