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Linda Gross of the Los Angeles Times called it despicable and described Henkel and Hooper as more concerned with creating a realistic atmosphere than with its " plastic script ".
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said it was " as violent and gruesome and blood-soaked as the title promises ", yet praised its acting and technical execution.
Patrick Taggart of the Austin American-Statesman hailed it as the most important horror film since George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).
John McCarty of Cinefantastique stated that the house featured in the film made the Bates motel " look positively pleasant by comparison ".
Revisiting the film in his 1976 article " Fashions in Pornography " for Harper's Magazine, Stephen Koch found its sadistic violence to be extreme and unimaginative.
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