While it may not be innovative or stylistically impressive, this modest horror flick still delivers decent scares.
- Joshua Blackman, FILMINK (Australia), July 25, 2011
Taking a fresh twist on the college campus serial killer sub genre of horror, John V. Soto delivers an engaging and well executed supernatural thriller in which mechanical voodoo (not the hip hop band) is the weapon of choice for the killer
- Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile, July 23, 2011
To the film's credit, it lacks the smug self-awareness that predominates the modern teen horror genre, but that commitment to integrity gives Needle a retro familiarity that the key demographic may find a little too quaint.
- Simon Foster, sbs.com.au, July 11, 2011
