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Death Bed - The Bed That Eats review
:. Director: George Barry
:. Starring: Demene Hall, Rusty Russ
:. Running Time: 1:20
:. Year: 1977
:. Country: USA
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With a title like Death Bed - the bed that eats you don't expect a great piece of art and it's certainly not what you get. Shot on a shoe-string budget, this little horror film that was never released has become an object of cult for a small group of followers, thanks to a pirated copy that has been circulated in the UK since the 80's.
In Death Bed we follow a typical day of a carnivorous bed, from breakfast to dinner and desert as various groups of people stop by this empty mansion and end up the victims of this bed that also has, for company, a ghost who is a prisoner behind a painting.
If nothing else, Death Bed stands as the perfect example on how to make a film for cheap with a little ingenuity. The director, the obscure George Barry, has without a doubt a sense of humor and to overcome the lack of special effects he created sequences that are funny.
When the bed is actually eating there is a combo of yucky yellow bubbles and the sound of munching, while the digestion is shown in some yellow underwater shots where everything gets devoured—and bottles get emptied—without hardly seeing anything!
The story of Death Bed has been conceived as a myth, and in addition to all the eating, you'll get to learn about the origin of the malediction, which of course will find closure by the end of the picture.
Death Bed cannot be taken seriously, and it's not how it was intended, but after breakfast and lunch, the movie loses its appetite. The cheap student-looking piece will mostly cater to the horror-geek crowd.
Death Bed is now available on Blu-Ray
Fred Thom
 Reviews of Cult Movies since 2012
Cult Films: 1998 - 2011 Reviews
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