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Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

Demene Hall (Actor), William Russ (Actor), George Barry (Director, Producer, Writer) Rated:
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4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
IMDb4.3/10.0
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Genre Horror/Supernatural
Format Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Full Screen
Contributor Rosa Luxemburg, Maureen Petrucci, Samir Eid, Ed Oldani, William Russ, Dave Marsh, Fred Abdenour, Linda Bond, Julie Ritter, George Barry, Marshall Tate, Demene Hall, Dessa Stone, Patrick Spence-Thomas, Jim Williams See more
Language English
Number Of Discs 1
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Released for the first time here after 25 years in obscurity, Cult Epics brings you DEATH BED, George Barry's uniquely weird journey through a world of wind demons, carnivorous furnishings and the spirit of Aubrey Beardsley! At the edge of a grand estate, near a crumbling old mansion lies a strange stone building with just a single room. In the room there lies a bed. Born of demonic power, the bed seeks the flesh, blood and life essence of unwary travellers... Three pretty girls arrive on vacation, searching for a place to spend the night. Instead, they tumble into nightmares - and the cruel, insatiable hunger of the Bed! DEATH BED is a one-of-a kind experience: comic, horrific and dreamlike, that truly has to be seen to be believed. Discover this neglected marvel of American horror for yourself!

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.53 inches; 2.88 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ George Barry
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Full Screen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 17 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 27, 2004
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Demene Hall, William Russ, Julie Ritter, Linda Bond, Patrick Spence-Thomas
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Jim Williams, Maureen Petrucci, George Barry
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Cult Epics
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0001XAKQK
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ George Barry
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings

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4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5 out of 5
90 global ratings
Thought provoking exploration of the human soul.
5 Stars
Thought provoking exploration of the human soul.
Since 1977 every award to filmmakers and actors other than those involved in the production of Deathbed, The Bed That Eats has either been a practical joke in bad taste or an atrocity. Death Bed, being the greatest film ever produced, and likely (objectively) the greatest artistic endeavor our species has crafted, by all rights should be the only plausible contender for Oscars and Golden Globe awards, in every applicable category, every year. 1977 will for eons be the marker of humanity's creative zenith and our ancestor's will look on this masterpiece and fall dumbstruck by its depth and beauty.
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Michael
5.0 out of 5 stars So bad its funny
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2022
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Sad attempt at high art horror that is so terribly executed its hilarious
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Peter O'Brien
5.0 out of 5 stars 3 Square Meals, One Square Bed: Two bony thumbs up
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2019
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A lot to digest here. Why show, when you have an inner monologue that can tell?
The main character may well have been in this movie, or may have been named by the third act. Or its name was 'The Bed'. Or Sharon. Either way, we were Diane to find out!

A proto-feminist allegory for where man's hands ends, and women's libs begins. Boobs.

A form of waterbed was invented in 1833 by the Scottish physician Neil Arnott. Dr. Arnott's Hydrostatic Bed was devised to prevent bedsores in invalids, and comprised a bath of water with a covering of rubber-impregnated canvas, on which lighter bedding was placed. Arnott didn't patent it, permitting anyone to construct a bed to this design.[4][5]

It "purportedly" killed no one.
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John's Horror Corner
3.0 out of 5 stars Simply put, this is the story of a waterbed filled with digestive fluid and powered by a demon. See it! It's weird and funny.
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2013
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Simply put, this is the story of a waterbed filled with digestive fluid and powered by a demon. It's a must see for those who claim to have seen a little of everything for its novelty and hilarious awfulness. There is nothing else like this, for better or for worse...

This movie gets off to a tasteless start as a couple of young lovers happen upon an old house. The narration of a Limbo-bound spirit reveals that the bed in this house is alive and that he's been listening to it snore for a century. But, once awakened, it strategically locks all of the doors to the house except for the one that leads the amorous couple to its bedroom lair. Most likely taking offense to the boyfriend's clumsily amateur breast-fondling technique, the bed spitefully eats the young couple's lunch...and then eats them.

It seems that these first two victims serve no more purpose than to let viewers know what they're in for...a movie about a bed that eats people. Our narrating spirit gives us a little history about the bed, its loud munching sounds, and its generally dim wit. Now that we've set the stage, it's time to meet our next victims which include William Russ (the dad from Boy Meets World) in his FIRST ROLE EVER!

This was directed, written and produced by George Barry, who has never done anything else. The same goes for almost every other actor in this except for William Russ. Probably for the best. The effects were poor, the acting was destitute, the scoring was terrible, and the film editing was somehow yet worse. Following suit was the overly informative, dry, ill-timed narration. Oh, and we get some narrative from one of the victims as well. Although I have no clue why. It serves little purpose other than stacking more poor qualities which disrupt the film's pacing. All in all, this movie feels like a series of fragmented thoughts, punctuated by nudity, that never go anywhere and which frankly are no more comprehensible than the mutterings of a mad man.

The one thing this film has going for it is that it is deliberately funny, for example depicting the bed eating Pepto-Bismol after a meal of a homely naked girl. The effects are largely limited to the bed drooling yellow foam and digesting things in a prop department fish tank. My favorite scene had to be when the bed ate William Russ' hands to the bone. Basically every scene in this movie labors on much longer than is necessary, and only to its hysterical detriment.

Simply put, this is the story of a waterbed filled with digestive fluid and powered by a demon that uses telekinesis on its more feisty victims.

A must see for those who claim to have seen a little of everything.
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demonfire
5.0 out of 5 stars death bed the bed that eats.
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2014
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heard about this lost gem for so long mostly from comedian patton oswalt doing a bit about what the pitch meeting would be like for this film. and being a fan of cheesy fillms had to have and what can i say this thing ranks up there with mantos the hands of fate as cheesy goodness . from the film being told by the owner of the bed hiding as a potrait to when the bed is shown eating people it looks like they are being dipped in beer mixed with acid. but mostly the whole idea of a film being about a bed eating people is worth adding this to ones collection if they are fans of cheesy films or films about demon possessing stuff .and the thing does come with special features like behind the scenes stuff and commentary and the film is fully transfered into hd. but does not include patton bit about the film .
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Cazbaz
5.0 out of 5 stars Cheesy good time
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2013
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This movie is NOT scary, not in any way. It is however funny as all get out. You and your friends will get a few laughs out of it. Also, pay attention if you buy this, the dad from "Boy meets world" is in this as one of the characters brothers... He is the ONLY actor in this movie who survived this crappy thing, lol
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Harvester
4.0 out of 5 stars Deathbed the bed that eats
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2010
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Hmm.. What could you say about this movie more then, very very strange...
I did not actually understand the whole meaning of this movie..

What I could get out of it was that it was an evil bed, that ate people..
It was a cursed bed. What could I more say? Surrealistic, Oh yes, Bizarr, absolutly..

Buy it and look at it, if you want to see something strange, surrealistic and bizarr...
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Lewis
5.0 out of 5 stars So bad its GREAT! For EVERY horror fan!
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2014
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There are movies that are considered so bad that they're good. Death Bed is so AWFUL; that its AWESOME! I can't even begin to describe how terrible and incredible this movie is to watch. A bed eats fried chicken and drinks wine in some goopy, trippy, yellow dimension within itself...and I've said too much already. YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS MOVIE!
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E. Temple
5.0 out of 5 stars Breakfast in bed.
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2012
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Oh... My... Gosh... this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and I love it! I lent it to some of my friends, they loved it! I heard about it from one of Patton Oswalt's standup comedy shows, and I knew I needed to own this one. Brilliant, and truly awful. You will be satisfied.
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Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2018
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Absolute classic!
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J. Thom
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on August 15, 2016
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Fantastic!
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G. Meldrum
4.0 out of 5 stars One To Scare The Sheet Out Of You?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 17, 2010
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`Death Bed' is an absolutely unique piece of super-low budget American `70s horror. Thankfully, that's one of my favourite genres of cinema (`Messiah of Evil' and `Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural' spring to mind as particular stand-outs insofar as relative contemporaries of this film go) so I enjoyed this enormously, despite its clear, obvious and quite forgivable flaws. Never officially released until this DVD came out (it took director and creator George Barry, who based it on a dream he'd had, 5 years to finish it only to fail in attaining any kind of distribution, during attempts at which a UK company shamelessly pirated the film!), the time has come for this strange, eccentric, loveable piece of cinema to gain its audience. It may not be a huge audience, but it is certainly deserving of recognition.

The plot, such as it is, concerns a demonic four poster bed that consumes anyone who foolishly uses it as a place of repose. Narrating our little tale in a decidedly deadpan manner is the ghost of Victorian artist Aubrey Beardsley (!), trapped inside one of his own paintings, near to the bed. Beardsley reveals some of the bed's sordid and frequently extremely comic history in flashback, whilst in the present day, the starving piece of baroque furniture proceeds to consume anyone it can, generating gouts of acidic mustard-coloured froth and dragging hapless topless women within its honey-toned liquid interior, in a kind of sedentary rampage. Frankly, if the sheer bizarreness of this paragraph hasn't won you over yet, this is probably not the film for you. But the blackly comic tone really makes this a one of a kind production, at times strangely reminiscent of a more bloody, nightmarish take on Monty Python-esque humour. Indeed, there is something about the way the bed sucks people within it that reminds one oddly of the piece of Terry Gilliam animation featuring a bent-double old man and his cannibalistic pram. This dark humour is unquestionably the defining feature of the film, but this is not to suggest it does not have an extremely sadistic streak: just watch the sequence in which one character makes an incredibly protracted escape, only to be foiled by a deft use of cotton sheets. The overall tone of the film is best compared to `Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things': in fact, if you have any fondness for that masterwork, `Death Bed' should appeal to you, as both films share a very similar ambience, including the ability to switch gears from delightfully macabre humour (`Deathbed's eyeball sequence in particular is extremely funny) to moments of genuine shock.

Furthermore, I would suggest you disregard any suggestion that this film lacks graphic moments: a sequence that deserves to be iconic, featuring one character's hands, is truly nasty in depiction and implication, if not necessarily execution. And as for what the unfortunate individual asks another character to do afterwards... horrid, most unforgettably horrid! Likewise, the idea of remaking this work with a bigger budget and a name director seems to me pretty blasphemous: so much of its charm comes from its extremely personal, dream-like ambience, something that could never survive such a pointless make-over.

Overall then, this is by no means a film for everyone, nor even necessarily for your `typical' horror buff, as if such a thing even exists. But if you're prepared to appreciate George Barry's delicious mix of ludicrous wit (not least the bed's frequently amusing sounds of pleasure and pain) and cruel, perverse slaughter, then a rest on the bed that eats may be just what you need. (And on a parting note, if you enjoy this, check out Fab Press's 'Nightmare USA' tome, by the inimitable Stephen Thrower, for the lowdown on this and many other no-budget pieces of US wonder.)
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