Attack of the Killer Refrigerator

That warning against chipping the ice in your fridge is there for a reason...

An amusingly stupid short in which a refrigerator does indeed attack and kill. Curiously, there's also a feature-length film with the same idea, The Refrigerator (1991). And evidently this short is going to be remade for a feature as well?

On video with The Hook of Woodland Heights (1990) (V), again, much more amusing than scary. These are also available on DVD now from the producers, along with another even lesser-seen short of theirs, Days Before Christmas.

If you're a film major in college, you should be required to watch this horror short. No more than ten minutes long, the story is about an evil refrigerator that goes nuts and decides to kill everybody in the house. Enough said, this film was made by college students in Massachusetts. Low budget, with a college camera, and a non payed cast and crew, this film is an example of a local independent film.

My review was written in November 1990 after watching the picture on Donna Michele video cassette.

Amateur horror films hit video in a bait & switch program, consisting of this short film plus "The Hook of Woodland Heights" and a laughably inept TV "making of" featurette to fill out the running time.

Misspelled on screen "Attack of the Killer Refridgerator", the 15-minute item is a poorly made mid-'80s student film about a fridge that gets mad after being "abused" at a party, where the heroes chip away the ice in its freezer compartment. Gory makeup effects ensue when it kills people, including exhibitionist filmmaker Mark Veau.

Accompanying slasher movie "The Hook..." is no better. And the BTS on the cassette of "The Hook" is an unwitting parody of such documentaries. There's precious little talent displayed by these tyro filmmakers.

If you like bad movies, this is the one to see. It's incredibly low-budget special effects (you'll see what I mean) and use of non-actors was what gave this film it's charm. If you're bored with a group of friends, I highly recommend renting this B movie gem. It's mulletrific!

Mark Veau, the man after two movies made a short one, this one and a movie, also a 'long' short, hahaha The Hook of...This one is a bit better than Hook. It's shorter and there is more blood in it. Funny to see are the posters on the wall, you can see it's deep eighties, a poster of the group Berlin, man can it go wronger? this short movie inspired some other dudes to make it a longer version called the refrigerator. But this is the short one, hard to get only on NTSC VHS and OOP of course, I don't know if Mark is still online to buy some copies? Anyway, it contains a bit more blood and a bit of gore but the score they used makes the movie creepier, and the way the camera is used made me think of Evil Dead. Wide angel zoomed in. Attack also has a bit of a cult status, don't know why but if you search The Net you will see. Try to catch a copy if you could, worth watching, you will be polite to your fridge the next time...brrrrr