It utilized to have a % rating on Rotten Tomatoes, whose significant consensus notes that it is "duly notorious" as the two an imitation of E.T. The site's consensus reads, "Mommie Dearest definitely isn't going to absence for conviction, and neither does Faye Dunaway's legendary effectiveness as a wire-wielding monster however, the motion picture is also campy and undisciplined to transcend guilty enjoyment".