The Refrigerator

Young married couple Steve and Eileen Bateman (Dave Simonds and Julia McNeal) move from Ohio to New York City, where they rent an apartment that comes complete with appliances, which sounds good, except that the refrigerator turns out to be possessed and is a portal to Hell.

A film about a fridge that eats people needs to be seriously schlocky and over-the-top, preferably with tons of gore, but The Refrigerator rarely hits the mark: it's weird, for sure, with bizarre performances and random moments of strangeness, but it's also rather boring and uneventful for the most part. Most of the time, all we see is a coloured light emanating from the appliance's interior, and brief shots of people disappearing behind the fridge door.

The film only comes close to the levels of lunacy required in the final act: a man has his leg bitten off by a waste paper bin and his face is mutilated by the blades of a table fan. This unexpected late-in-the-day spot of gore only serves to highlight just how uninspired and lacklustre the rest of the film is. 3/10.

THE REFRIGERATOR is one of the more cleverly original ideas for a campy horror flick and is pretty much played for laughs. While a bit slow moving at times, this is a must see for all fans of the slapstick comedy/horror sub-genre. If you're a fan of any of the following, then this movie is for you: EVIL DEAD II, STREET TRASH, BASKET CASE, BASKET CASE II, BASKET CASE III, DEAD ALIVE, MEET THE FEEBLES, RABID GRANNIES, or any of Troma's better known releases. If you can imagine an large, evil appliance which is somehow alive, a ghost-in-the-machine device which when opened, has all the ooze and spew of a Peter Jackson special effect, then you have the basic concept of THE REFRIGERATOR, in which machines terrorizes a young NYC housewife. For a low budget flick, this one is very well made, with excellent special effects (though mediocre acting). Highly recommended if you're looking for something a bit different.

Low-budget cult films like this keep me alive! The acting is awful and so is the directing, but The Refrigerator is just such a hillarious killing machine. It just moves and grabs someone. This film was so funny and just plain wonderful. Ranks up there with one of the surefire cult classics. If this isn't a cult classic, I don't know what is. Try to find this film on video. If you can ever find it, buy it because it's rare and hard to find and A MUST HAVE for anyone serious interested in the horror genre. I found it for $2.00 in some mom and pop store in New Jersey, and I watch it every now and then. You'll get more then one or two chuckles! ***1/2out of****With writing that's so bad, it's good!

Geeez! Not nearly a quarter of the fun the title promises this movie to be. A refrigerator is terrorizing a couple who just moved into an apartment. Is the damn thing possessed? Is it just a freezing fridge-monster killing people? I have no idea... No explanation, no story, no gore... Just silly nonsense (and some occasional cheesiness that might have you cracking a smile or sigh deeply) in a flick that takes itself way too serious for whichever reasons I can't imagine. I mean, its title is "The Refrigerator" and it's a horror movie. What went wrong? I secretively was hoping this could just be as much fun as "The Slime" (AKA "Slime City"). Sadly, it's not. As soon as I figured that out, I started wondering if this was going to be a profound piece of art cinema filled with philosophical ponderings about frozen meat & vegetables and uplifted by loving musings at a temperature below zero. I think I just saw the wrong movie. Or something got lost in translation. Whatever.

This movie seems like it tries to be supernatural horror thriller but if anything it's a satire thats intentionally Cheesy. Eileen and Steve Bateman are a young couple that moves into a small apartment soon they start having weird dreams about the refrigerator Steve who becomes attached to the fridge dream of people he knows shrunk down inside the fridge talking to him. Eileen has nightmares of blood and long tentacle things coming out of the fridge she also has a dream of a fetus in the fridge. A woman called Tanya tells Eileen to leave the room she knows the refrigerator is evil and says its a gateway to hell. Steve starts acting strange and becomes obsessed with the refrigerator some people get eaten but the movie more about the fridge haunting Steve and Eileen. Juan the plumber who was also warned of the fridge join Tanya and Eileen in destroying the evil fridge and it turns out that is not the only appliances thats possessed. People who don't like this movie don't understand it it's not supposed to be a serious i can think of many big budget movies with a well known director or well known actors that are not as good as this. If you like this i suggest checking out attack of the killer refrigerator the stuff or Death bed or any killer object movie.