Reception
Variety gave the film a negative review calling it a "wildly uneven horror film" noting that "More care in scripting and fewer cheap yocks could have resulted in a viable new paranoid horror myth"Vincent Canby also criticized the script in his review for the New York Times stating "The screenplay is stitched together from variations on cliches used by or about the medical community." The Washington Post noted that "Manny Coto turns to co-writer Graeme Whifler time and again for punch lines in a desperate attempt to revive a script that begins in critical condition and ends up DOA."
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“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
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—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)