"Throughout, Salva's skill as a director keeps the movie afloat, helping to propel us through some of the dodgier narrative stumbles (the "let's go back to the obvious death trap for no reason other than to facilitate a horror film!" moment, or a weird, stretched-out, yet excellently tense confrontation with a crazy cat-lady played, distractingly, by Eileen Brennan), and making the best moments sing. Every inch of the sequence inside the pipe is carried off brilliantly, and not just Darry's half: as Trish stands guard outside, there's a truly breathtaking false scare that uses an out-of-focus depth of field in a profoundly clever, subtle manner; as indeed, the film consistently makes outstanding use of hiding details in corners of the frame where, because of composition or focus, we don't necessarily expect to look." - Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy