Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)

A bed possessed by a demon spirit consumes its users alive.

Director:

George Barry

Writer:

George Barry

Stars:

Demene Hall, William Russ, Julie Ritter

Cast

Credited cast:
Demene Hall	...	Diane
William Russ	...	Sharon's Brother (as Rusty Russ)
Julie Ritter	...	Suzan
Linda Bond	...	The Resurrected
Patrick Spence-Thomas	...	Voice of the Artist
Rosa Luxemburg	...	Sharon
Dave Marsh	...	Artist
Ed Oldani	...	Victim
Dessa Stone	...	First Female Victim
Marshall Tate	...	Side Order
Samir Eid	...	Gangster
Fred Abdenour	...	Gangster
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jock Brandis	...	Priest

Storyline

A bed possessed by a demon spirit consumes its users alive.

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Plot Keywords:

demon | bed | animate object | female nudity | female frontal nudity | 

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 February 2010 (Czech Republic)

Also Known As:

На смертном одре: Постель-людоед

Filming Locations:

Gar Wood Mansion - Keelson Dr., Detroit, Michigan, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$30,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Until its official DVD release in 2003, Death Bed had been circulated via pirated bootlegs and, unknown to director George Barry, the film had gained an underground fan base. Barry said he discovered people discussing it on the internet one evening and decided to put an official video release of the film into works.

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Goofs

After Sharon's brother has his hands dissolved by the Death bed, only the skeleton remains. The hands are clearly a plastic skeleton as evidenced by the metal pins connecting the pieces to each other.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Voice of the Artist: I've been imprisoned behind my painting in this limbo for 60 years now since my death. I think half that time I've spent in listening to that monster snore.
[gates creaks, crashes open]
Voice of the Artist: Someone's coming! My god it's waking up!

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Connections

Featured in The Cinema Snob: Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (2010)

User Reviews

In the Bedroom

Exactly what one would expect from a title like that, 'Death Bed: The Bed That Eats' focuses on a possessed bed at an outskirts cottage that dissolves and eventually consumes anyone unfortunate enough to sit or lie on it for extended periods. Considering the noticeably low budget, the special effects are surprisingly decent and the film comes with the odd artistic touch or two, such as a great shot of one victim's dripping blood extinguishing a candle beside the bed. The film also features a lot of uncanny elements throughout, not all of which necessarily gel well. More bizarre than anything the evil bed does (or anything its victims do to futilely stop themselves being eaten) is the poetic voice-over narration throughout, delivered by one of the bed's victims, trapped behind a painting in the room. His eloquent narration is not necessarily a detractor, but it is certainly very, very weird in a possessed inanimate object movie like this. The film's most significant drawback is the acting with the precredits couple in particular offering amateurish turns. If one can get over the second rate acting, strange voice-over narration and such oddities as the bed being spliced into old newsreel footage (!), this is an undeniably unique horror film, and one that - at the very least - manages to makes its possessed object seem sinister without the need to talk or move.