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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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
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