Sarah Purcell, who appears in the film, hoped
Terror Among Us would help in teaching women how to protect themselves from attack, describing of her character: "I'm the one who does something, at the risk of my own life. I'm about a goner anyway and I really would be a goner if I just sat there and didn't do anything." In a scathing review for
Fort Lauderdale News, Bill Kelley accused the film of "trivializing the volatile subject it covers" in favor of a
B-movie approach, writing how the character Ted finds "not one, not two, but
five comely flight attendants" in the apartment complex, "and, if not for Meredith and the CBS Standards and Practices censorship code, he'd make out like a fox in a henhouse." Kelley also dismissed Purcell's charge that the film was a relevant piece rather than exploitative. The climax of the film is popular with fans of
damsel in distress scenarios, being found on websites that list female bondage scenes in mainstream media. In 2001, Carl McGuire of
Bondage Life, in his
Bound for Hollywood column, named it the best group bondage scene in film and television history. ==References==