The Creative Team

The Minds Behind the Fridge

Media House Films is a Worcester, MA independent production company with nearly 40 years of history making cult, horror, and genre films. Attack of the Killer Refrigerator 2 reunites the core creative team from the original 1985 production for their most ambitious project to date.

Michael Savino

Director · Writer · Producer

Michael Savino has been making films in central Massachusetts since 1985 when he co-created the original Attack of the Killer Refrigerator as a college project. What started as a joke became a cult phenomenon distributed nationally to over 5,000 video stores, screened at horror festivals around the world, and now ranked among the rarest VHS tapes ever produced.

Over the past 18 years, Savino has been developing the screenplay for the full feature sequel — a 97-page script with nearly 2,000 storyboard panels. He serves as director, co-writer, and producer on Attack of the Killer Refrigerator 2.

Savino's filmography includes the 1985 original AKR, The Hook of Woodland Heights (1987), Days Before Christmas (1992) — Gold Award winner at WorldFest Houston — and Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made, a documentary about the team's legendary unmade film.

Mark Veau

Co-Writer · Producer

Mark Veau has been a creative partner of Michael Savino's since the original Attack of the Killer Refrigerator in 1985. His writing sensibility — equal parts horror, dark comedy, and working-class New England authenticity — shaped the tone of the original and is central to the sequel's DNA.

Veau's creative fingerprints are across the full Media House Films catalog. He co-created the original Attack of the Killer Refrigerator (1985), contributed to The Hook of Woodland Heights (1987), and was central to Days Before Christmas (1992) — Gold Award winner at WorldFest Houston. He appeared alongside Savino in the 2022 documentary Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made, which won Best Documentary Short at the New Jersey Film Awards.

Beyond the produced films, Veau has co-written a body of completed feature screenplays with Savino — including MHz, Snapper, AM/FM, and Tainted Love — demonstrating a sustained creative output that spans decades and genres. Attack of the Killer Refrigerator 2 is the next chapter in that collaboration.

Filmography

AKR (1985)

The original. A college student. A camera. A refrigerator. A national cult phenomenon. Distributed to over 5,000 video stores by Donna Michelle Productions. Available on ScreamBox and Terror Vision.

🏆 Argus "Worst Video" Award 📼 Rarest.org Top 10 VHS 🎬 WatchMojo: Top 10 Killer Inanimate Objects

The Hook (1987)

The Hook of Woodland Heights — Media House Films' follow-up horror short. Regional cult following in the New England horror circuit. Original one-sheet poster is a collector's item.

Days Before Christmas (1992)

Gold Award winner at the 25th Annual WorldFest Houston International Film Festival — one of the most prestigious independent film competitions in the United States.

🥇 WorldFest Houston Gold Award

Snapper (early 1990s / 2022)

The man-eating snapping turtle movie that never got made. Shot in Worcester, MA — a giant killer turtle wreaks havoc on a lakeside New England community after illegal chemical dumping. Unearthed 30 years later for the award-winning documentary Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made (2022), directed by John Campopiano. Available on PBS and ScreamBox.

🏆 NJ Film Awards: Best Documentary Short 🎃 Salem Horror Fest Official Selection 🎬 Portland Horror Film Festival 📺 PBS & ScreamBox

AKR 2 (2024–)

40 years after the original. In active pre-production with investment open. 97-page script, nearly 2,000 storyboards, teaser released, original refrigerator acquired. Principal photography pending full financing.

Completed Screenplays

Beyond the produced films, Savino and Veau have written a library of completed feature screenplays — a testament to decades of sustained creative collaboration.

MHz

Feature Screenplay

When the sentient computers and office machines of a 1999 tech firm develop their own digital subculture — complete with office politics, jealousy, and obsolescence — a sinister hacker's renegade virus may be the one thing that finally unites them.

An original feature screenplay by Savino & Veau — completed and ready for production.

Snapper

Feature Screenplay

The creature-feature that inspired a documentary. A mutant snapping turtle stalks a small New England town after illegal chemical dumping. Written, shot, and never finished — until the story took on a life of its own.

AM/FM

Feature Screenplay

An original feature screenplay by Savino & Veau — completed and ready for production.

Tainted Love

Feature Screenplay

An original feature screenplay by Savino & Veau — completed and ready for production.

Next in the Franchise · Concept in Development

Attack of the Killer
Refrigerator 3

Nine months after the massacre, the Refrigerator's offspring is born during a violent storm in a psychiatric ward — a baby with a strange rectangular chest cavity that pulses and snaps shut with bone-crushing force. His mother, Samantha, escapes with him hidden beneath a food service cart, going on the run from police, doctors, and a past she can never outrun. She raises him in secrecy — always moving, always hiding — home-schooling a boy the world is not ready for. As a toddler, William's hunger is already disturbing. By high school, his rectangular chest has made him a football legend. Coaches say he doesn't need shoulder pads. His teammates nickname him "The Refrigerator." But the hunger evolves into something no supplement or diet can satisfy. William begins to die — and only human flesh will sustain him. Devoted and desperate, Samantha begins luring victims to the basement: the homeless, strangers from the internet, anyone who won't be missed. Meanwhile, Slasher — an old friend of Samantha and Fred, now a rookie detective — begins investigating a string of unexplained disappearances. When Slasher and Fred compare notes, the truth about the girl they both once knew snaps into focus: a mother's love, taken to its most terrifying extreme.

Concept by Savino & Veau  ·  Franchise Continuation

Attack 3 — A Mother's Love Can Be Chilling

Press & Recognition

WatchMojo

Top 10 Killer Inanimate Objects in Movies

Attack of the Killer Refrigerator featured in WatchMojo's Top 10 Killer Inanimate Objects in Movies — joining the pantheon of cinema's most dangerous household appliances.

WatchMojo.com →

Rarest.org

#10 Rarest VHS Tape Ever Produced

Ranked #10 on Rarest.org's definitive list of the rarest VHS tapes ever produced. Only 3,000 copies were made by Donna Michelle Productions. Original tapes have sold for over $1,200 on eBay — one copy fetched $1,277.

Rarest.org →

National Argus Video Competition

"Worst Video" Award Winner

The film that launched a cult legacy. The Argus "Worst Video" award turned the original AKR into a national talking point — the kind of notoriety that money can't buy and that audiences never forget.

WorldFest Houston International Film Festival

Gold Award — Days Before Christmas (1992)

Gold Award winner at the 25th Annual WorldFest Houston International Film Festival for Days Before Christmas. One of the premier independent film festivals in the United States.

Snapper Documentary (2022)

Best Documentary Short · NJ Film Awards

The documentary about Media House Films' legendary unmade turtle movie won Best Documentary Short at the New Jersey Film Awards and screened at Salem Horror Fest, Portland Horror Film Festival, and Popcorn Frights. Available on PBS and ScreamBox.

Watch on ScreamBox →

AKR2 Browser Game

Play Fred vs. The Killer Fridge

The franchise extends to a free browser game built to support the sequel campaign. Play as Fred across 3 waves of refrigerator terror. Available free on this site — and a Venmo donation supports the production directly.

Play the Game →

Percy Jackson

Pop Culture Footnote

The "Attack of the Killer Refrigerator" has earned mentions in pop culture discussions, including connections to the Percy Jackson universe — cementing the original film's status as a genuine piece of American cult cinema.

The Jim Polito Show · WTAG

"Cult Classic — So Bad It's Great"

Featured on The Jim Polito Show on WTAG as a cult classic movie that is "so bad it's great" — the kind of regional coverage that connects the film's legacy directly to its Worcester, MA roots.