Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977) on Netflix
A demon's tears of blood gave a bed a life of its own. It devours the people who lie on it. An artist, spared, is held behind a painting, watching.
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Plot summary
In 1897 a demon conjured a bed for the woman he loved. She died as they lay together, and his tears of blood touched the bed and woke it to a life of its own, spent feeding on whoever lies down. The bed is deadly while the demon is awake and inert through the roughly ten-year stretches when he sleeps. Only the artist Aubrey Beardsley was spared: the bed keeps him immortal behind a painting, watching it eat. Ownership of the bed has passed down through the generations. A young couple slip into the deserted mansion that holds it, and three women, Diane, Sharon and Suzan, come across the place while on a trip through the countryside.
Cast
- Julie Ritteras Suzan
- Linda Bondas The Resurrected
- Patrick Spence-Thomasas Voice of the Artist
- Rosa Luxemburgas Sharon
- Dave Marshas Artist
- Ed Oldanias Victim
- Dessa Stoneas First Female Victim
- Marshall Tateas Side Order
- Samir Eidas Gangster
- Fred Abdenouras Gangster
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)
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- Portland Films, an obscure British label, released a bootleg VHS of Death Bed in the United Kingdom around 1983 without director George Barry's knowledge, and the film built an underground cult following in Europe because of it.
- Writer-director George Barry, a native of Royal Oak, Michigan, based Death Bed: The Bed That Eats on a nightmare he had about a bed consuming human beings.
- Principal photography on Death Bed was completed within two weeks, but George Barry then spent four years editing the film.
- For Death Bed's first official theatrical exhibition in 2003, George Barry added new theme music by Stephen Thrower's band Cyclobe, having never been satisfied with the original theme by Mike McCoy.
- To avoid paying union fees, many of the cast and crew of Death Bed were hired from Canada, among them cinematographer Robert Fresco, who later worked as a camera operator on Prom Night.
- Some of Death Bed was filmed at the historic Gar Wood Mansion on Grayhaven Island, which was leased for the production from a rock music group that was staying in the home.
- Comedian Patton Oswalt included a routine about Death Bed on his 2007 album Werewolves and Lollipops, in which he misnames the film Death Bed: The Bed That Eats People.
- In October 2014, playwright Gwenyfar Rohler's stage adaptation of Death Bed was held at the Halloween Horror Theatre Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina.
