Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

1977 "If you want to survive, don't go near THE BED."
4.3| 1h17m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 26 October 1977 Released
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Country: United States of America
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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 travelers… 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!

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George Barry

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Death Bed: The Bed That Eats Audience Reviews

Alicia I love this movie so much
Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring
Konterr Brilliant and touching
Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
evan-brandao After watching this film, I legitimately wished by bed would devour me. Everybody in this film is so idiotic, it makes The Room look like a masterpiece. However, this film has definitely convinced me to stop entering abandoned mansions in my area (an activity that I engage in weekly)
BA_Harrison Death Bed: The Bed That Eats is without a doubt one of the weirdest horror films I have ever seen. It's not just the plot that astounds with its sheer surrealistic nuttiness, but also the execution: the avant-garde direction, the strange music, the kooky performances, the random editing, and the echoey voice-over from the spirit of an artist trapped behind a painting, all of which go to make this a real one-of-a-kind off-the-wall movie.Told in four chapters - Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Just Desserts - the film revolves around a bed that devours anyone and anything that comes in contact with it. The bed - created by a tree demon in the form of a breeze - came to life when the woman the demon wished to seduce suddenly died. Over the years the bed, which occupies an abandoned house, has claimed many victims, dissolving their bodies in the acid that sloshes around under its sheets. One of these victims was the aforementioned artist, who, imprisoned behind his own work of art for 70 years, bears witness to each and every death.When three young women arrive at the house, the bed begins to feed again, starting with cutie Suzan (Julie Ritter, who gets nekkid before being eaten), followed by Diane (Demene Hall), who might have escaped if it hadn't been for those pesky prehensile bed sheets. The third girl, Sharon (Rosa Luxemburg), is spared, because her eyes remind the bed of the demon's dead maiden.Crazy moments include the bed consuming an apple and regurgitating the core, Suzan dreaming of eating bugs, the bed devouring an orgy, and an eyeball rolling around the sheets, but for my money the most memorable scene is when Sharon's brother stupidly tries to stab the bed and finds himself wrist deep in acid, the bed dissolving the flesh, leaving him with skeletal hands that start to break apart as the cartilage wastes away.With bonkers stuff like that, I happily recommend the film to fans of bizarre cinema, even if, truth be told, it isn't really all that good.
sol ***SPOILERS**** Both confusing as well as mentally changeling film about this bed that eats anyone or anything, people apples bottles of wine & Pepto-Bismol and buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken, that has the misfortune to sit sleep or lie on it! Were told about this evil bed that's situated in the middle of the woods buried underground in an enclosed and hidden bedroom by one of its victims, that it rejected or regurgitated, an half-a** artist who's been living in limbo in one of his painting or scratches for some 60 or 70 years. The story that the artist tells us goes like this in that was a number of people who disappeared off the face of the earth in New York City's Lower East-Side back in the early 1900's that somehow were connected with the bed in question! Things were told by the Artist got so bad that the Mayor himself took a hand in solving the missing peoples case until he became one of the missing people himself! By now you know that this film is going nowhere and you just try to sit back and ready yourself for all the nuttiness and insanity that's soon to follow.What follows is a number of people getting eaten by the bed who just happen to wonder out in the woods and with no motels or bed and breakfast places within miles end up sleeping on it. How their eaten is that the bed sucks them inside its mattress like quicksand an with its digestive fluids and acids devours them leaving only their bones and teeth. The artist who's telling us this story soon loses himself, by constantly contracting himself, in what he's telling us in him realizing, like us watching, just how totally ridicules the story he's telling us is. The highlights in the film is in how the bed dispatches its victim in what looks like tub filled with yellowish water or the inside of a toilet bowl that hasn't been flushed down in days. That in itself can turn your stomach more then the results of the killer bed's victims who end up looking like a human skeleton at the doctors office or in the movie "House on Haunted Hill".***SPOILERS*** The movie is shown in four parts "Breakfest" "Lunch" and "Dinner" with the last part "Just Deserts" by far the best of all of them. It's then when the only surviving victim of the man and woman eating bed Suzan gets the word from the Artist trapped in his own painting in how to put an end to the beds evil and disgusting actions: Carve a number of mindless symbols all around it and then set it on fire! The symbols didn't make any sense at all but burning it made all the sense in the world. Why didn't he, the Artist, tell Suzan and her dead and eaten friends Diane Sharon and her brother Russ that in the first place! It would have saved their lives as well as us watching the trouble of suffering through this mess of a bedroom horror flick!P.S It took almost 25 years for "Death Bed" to finally be released to the public. And it was only in the age of cheap bargain basement $1.00 or less DVD's in 2003, with no one crazy enough to pay $5.00 to $10,00 to see it in the movies or pay as much as $10.00 to $15.00 for a video tape copy of it, that made that all possible!
christopher-underwood This film is a sublime gem. How many times do we pick up a much lauded, so called, 'cult classic' and find that apart from an interesting opening and a decent climax, there is just too much chasing about in the woods? Well, every now and again a film pops out its box and leaps all over you, like this one. OK, you might imagine from the title that there should be at least one scene that at least alludes to the bed that eats. Believe me there is little else here. From beginning to end this is imaginative, surreal, horrific and startling mayhem. Sometimes beautiful, occasionally amusing but always captivating, this truly is a one off that will stun you with its audacity and leave you open mouthed. I even applauded sat upon my settee a couple of times. It is a tragedy this is so underrated but never mind all that just treat yourself to this amazing and only outing from director George Barry.