"Young's remarkable ability to create a believable oppressive locality in Wait Until Dark obscures plot holes and irrationalities right up to the film's extended final showdown. By the time Suzy realizes she's completely and hopelessly alone in her apartment (she's sent the dorky Lisa off on a futile mission to locate Sam at Asbury Park), the cumulative effect of Hepburn's palpable desolation and Arkin's ruthlessness (combined with Henry Mancini's overpoweringly harrowing score) bring the film to a justly celebrated climactic bacchanalia, complete with one of suspense cinema's first and most effective shock leaps." - Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine