Erik Piepenburg of The New York Times called the film a "jaw-droppingly gory trash fest" which should be seen by "video disciples with steel caldrons for stomachs". Noreen Giffney expresses in her bookQueering the Non/human that the film "offers cinematic representations of clinical associations between criminality, murder and necrophilia" but that the film is infantile.
Sequels
The film was followed by two sequels Necro Files 2 and Necro Files 3000.