"Aficionados of Italian horror cinema will note that Monster of Venice marks a turning point in the genre. What once was a collection of films devoted to putrefying Gothicism began to swing towards modernity. The use of rock music and a bizarrely jazz-oriented score meld modernism with the gothic, which is embodied in the vast labyrinth of the killer's catacombs. Aficionado or not, this is spectacular junk, and any attempt to intellectualize it as a genre film can only serve to rob it of its camp value." - Nate Meyers, Digitally Obsessed