 Not all reviews were negative. Blockbuster Entertainment gave the film three out of five stars, and film critic Leonard Maltin gave it two-and-a-half out of four stars. In their book about science fiction films, writers James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts called Laserblast "an stimulating, unpretentious little film in the same vein as I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Parish and Pitts praised the stop motion animation and the performance of Cheryl Smith. Laserblast was among several films universally considered terrible that film reviewer Michael Adams watched as part of a book about his quest to find the worst film of all time. However, Adams said he enjoyed watching it on a B movie level. Monthly Film Bulletin said that Laserblast was" Band's first major box-office success on the exploitation circuit ". According to Space.com, Laserblast has achieved cult film status. During a 2005 interview, Charles Band called the film" hilarious "and stated" it had its charm " like many films from its time. He also said that the film would have been made differently and would have had less critical reactions had it been produced with a larger budget.
