"To accompany some fine acting, Brahm especially flexed his directorial muscles here, with some very stylish set-ups. The opening murder is startlingly shot partly with subjective camera, and he utilises a range of closeups, swooping camera moves and camera effects to work up a sense of delirium... its histrionics and hyperbole create a texture of tragic madness that perfectly compliments Cregar's haunted playing... The real shame of it would be that there would be no more Cregar performances: still in his twenties, he was dead by the time this was released." - Graeme Clark, The Spinning Image