"The Devil’s Eye was Ingmar Bergman’s first venture into outright comedy. After weightily philosophical and gloomy works like The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Magician/The Face (1958) and The Virgin Spring (1959) wherein Bergman frequently questioned the ultimate meaning of it all and harshly condemned the hypocritical, the religious and the self-important, you might argue that Bergman needed to do something lighter to relieve all that intellectual solemnity. (...) Bergman, who was a theatre director before becoming a filmmaker, has made The Devil’s Eye a film that is decidedly theatrical in nature – costumes changes occur behind panels in puffs of smoke and there is a narrator who talks direct to the camera and even refers to what is going on as a play."
— Richard Scheib de Moria