The film has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[6] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 28 out of a 100 based on 11 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[7]
Glenn Heath Jr. of Slant Magazine gave the film one and a half stars out of four, explaining his rating by "The brooding main characters in James M. Hausler's Kalamity take indulgent suffering to another level".[8]
Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "[a] pallid, unconvincing thriller" that "carries the battle between the sexes to literal extremes".[9]