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Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

  • 19771977
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  • 1h 17m
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4.3/10
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Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)
Horror
A bed possessed by a demon spirit consumes its users alive.A bed possessed by a demon spirit consumes its users alive.A bed possessed by a demon spirit consumes its users alive.
IMDb RATING
4.3/10
2.5K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
23,894
964
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    • Director
      • George Barry
    • Writer
      • George Barry
    • Stars
      • Demene Hall
      • William Russ
      • Julie Ritter
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    • Director
      • George Barry
    • Writer
      • George Barry
    • Stars
      • Demene Hall
      • William Russ
      • Julie Ritter
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    • 56User reviews
    • 93Critic reviews
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    Demene Hall
    Demene Hall
    • Diane
    William Russ
    William Russ
    • Sharon's Brother
    • (as Rusty Russ)
    Julie Ritter
    Julie Ritter
    • Suzan
    Linda Bond
    • The Resurrected
    Patrick Spence-Thomas
    • Voice of the Artist
    Rosa Luxemburg
    Rosa Luxemburg
    • Sharon
    Dave Marsh
    Dave Marsh
    • Artist
    Ed Oldani
    • Victim
    Dessa Stone
    • First Female Victim
    Marshall Tate
    • Side Order
    Samir Eid
    • Gangster
    Fred Abdenour
    • Gangster
    Jock Brandis
    • Priest
    • Director
      • George Barry
    • Writer
      • George Barry
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    • Trivia
      Comedian Patton Oswalt mentions the movie on his 2007 CD "Werewolves and Lollipops", where he does a stand-up routine on it (mistakenly referring to it as "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats People"). He even specifically tells people to look up the movie on the IMDb to verify that he wasn't joking about its existence.
    • Goofs
      The voice-over makes a reference that Suzan's skull was used to grow the roses for her friends. But earlier it shows the roses appearing in the yard while Suzan was still floating in the bed, and then much later her skull was teleported into the yard.
    • 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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    8/10
    Death Bed: The film from another universe
    I'm not sure what I can add that hasn't already been said in some of these other fine, and quite hilarious, comments, but Ill try.

    So you know the plot: there is a bed possessed by a demon that "absorbs" and selectively disintegrates the bodies of whoever (or whatever) lays on it with its orange soda-filled body. We have the man, in some scenes looking uncannily like Robert Smith of The Cure, hanging out inside the wall commenting on the goings-on, and we have our various victims that just cant resist the comfort of this mystical bed.

    This is no ordinary bed. No sirree Bob! Not only does it eat people, but it cleans up after itself, draws the covers back, and it even makes itself. Who wouldn't want a bed like that? It can even use its sheets as a rudimentary "lasso" to wrangle escaped victims back in (especially if they're taking up half the length of the film to try and escape).

    Our "main" story (if you can call it that), is about these three girls who go out to this remote area to house-sit(??). I don't recall exactly, but it doesn't really matter though as there are plenty of things that defy convention that you just have to give in and accept. The dialogue in the film is like no other; the characters talk to each other seemingly by telepathy as their mouths never seem to move and there is a constant echo. One of our girls believes she isn't liked by the rest of "the gang" and makes sure to tell us all her feelings on this matter through an echoey voice-over, but we don't care; character development was thrown out the window a LONG time before in this film so why start now? There are scenes when the bed laughs, snores, crunches, and makes various other noises that we assume judging by our cast's non-reaction to said noises, cant be heard. This and the telepathy makes the issue of diegesis very difficult to ascertain...but thats OK....this is Death Bed: The Bed That Eats and it defies all logic so its OK. It makes for a lush dreamy quality to this most bizarre film If you buy (hehe buy...did I say "buy"?) this DVD, make sure to check out the introduction by the director. He explains that the filming of this "flick" started in 1972, didn't wrap up until 1977, he shopped it for a few years with no luck, and then fast forward 26 years to 2003 it gets released on DVD. Supposedly someone somewhere had a print of this in some other country and made bootleg after bootleg of it and it was quite by chance, on a message board no less, that our director found evidence that people knew, and gasp! cared, about his little-known film. Its from there that he decided to give it a shot and release it. I'm glad he did. Once you've even so much as heard the title to this film, you MUST see it. I for one am going to buy this and I'm going to preach its gospel around the world...starting with this comment
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    • Aug 17, 2006

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    • Release date
      • February 11, 2010 (Czech Republic)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La cama de la muerte
    • Filming locations
      • Gar Wood Mansion - Keelson Dr., Detroit, Michigan, USA
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    • Budget
      • $30,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 17 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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