Best movie of this year hands down!

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A bed that's possessed by a lethal demonic spirit eats anyone who either sits or lies down on it. Yep, that's about it for the plot, but man does this flick register highly on the you have to see it to believe kookiness scale. Writer/director George Barry relates the offbeat story at a deliberate pace, does a sound job of crafting an odd dreamlike atmosphere, makes nice use of the gloomy isolated mansion location, and even sprinkles in a satisfying smattering of gratuitous female nudity for good measure. Fortunately, Barry doesn't take the gloriously ludicrous premise too seriously (the bed ingests a bottle of Pepto-Bismol at one point!). The rough cinematography, wonky synthesizer score, crude gore f/x, and ragged acting by a game no-name cast all further enhance the overall jaw-dropping weirdness. That's noted rock critic and official Bruce Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh as the sickly tortured artist imprisoned in a painting by the bed; Patrick Spence-Thomas provides the voice of the artist and serves as the picture's narrator. A truly singular doozy.

From its title you already pretty much know this just isn't going to be a good movie but you would at least expect it to be fun to watch. I mean here you have a movie called "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats" about a bed that kills people but the movie just simple falls short on every department.It's really a bed movie, that was putting me to sleep with its annoying, slow narrator and the fact that there is far too little happening. Well, actually it's not like there isn't anything happening but it's more that the movie just simply doesn't know what to do with it. Scenes go on for far too long and it's lacking in its build up as well. No, I really can't see how this movie can appeal to the fans of horror, even to those who are more accustomed to seeing bad movies. There are just no redeeming qualities about this movie, not even some decent gore.The movie has such a bad story, that just drags on and on. The entire movie is set at mostly one location but it does far too little with this premise. It actually rather works against than for the movie. It also really doesn't help that all of the characters are incredibly lacking. Who's bright idea was it to make the female lead a mute? Really, you just don't ever care about any of the characters or anything that is happening in this movie.Watch the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street" instead for a truly good death bed moment.3/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

I had read online reviews praising this obscure outing as a combination of gory horror, quirky black comedy and borderline art-house; the film has elements of all three, to be sure, but they are at the service of such a supremely silly premise (the title immediately gives the game away) – and amateurish production to boot – that its long-term neglect due to a lack of proper distribution – basically until Cult Epics picked it up for DVD release a full 30 years after its inception! – was no great loss to cinema or even the genre(s). The bed was apparently created for the purpose of accommodating a demon's dalliance with a woman; anyway, a dying man who had made use of the four-poster and even painted it ends up trapped in the wall behind the canvas(!) and provides intermittent commentary to the 'action'. Several people (from teenagers-on-a-fling to gangsters-in-hiding) supply fodder to the perennially-hungry bed; latest on the menu are a trio of girls – one of whom, however, recalls its mistress of long ago and, consequently, the bed seemingly fears her! Seeing various objects – from cigars to pieces of fried chicken – and people getting swallowed up (the belly of the bed is depicted as a vat of honey-colored liquid) makes the film mildly amusing at times (especially when a young man's hands are reduced to their skeletal formation, which he seems to take rather too easily in his stride!), but also awfully repetitious…so that, at even a brief 77 minutes, the whole pointless exercise feels strained and downright desperate.

I first heard of this film courtesy of comedian Patton Oswalt who mentions it in one of his hilarious comedy albums. First off let me say that I consider myself a bad movie connoisseur having sat through my fair share and being a huge fan of things like Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Cinematic Titanic that showcase and make fun of bad movies...So I ordered Death Bed on Netflix. I have to say the movie is almost exactly like I suspected it would be. I had a hunch, this being a 70s movie, that there would be some nudity and indeed most of the women in the film are naked at one time or another. The movie is slow, tedious and weird but it delivers EXACTLY what the title says, a bed that eats.The bed does eat. It eats a wide array of things, not just people. This is the sort of "SO BAD IT'S GOOD" cult classic that comes around once in a lifetime. Much like the equally so bad its awesome Manos: The Hands of Fate except this one makes a little more sense and does deliver some decent gore...All in all I can't say that I'm disappointed, though the movie was by no means good... I'm having trouble rating it out of 10, it's just too darn weird to give a numeric rating to. I recommend it to anyone who wants to see a 100% unique movie. They don't make em like this anymore... in fact they NEVER did.