Death Bed - The Bed That Eats

Rating:
Summary: Surpisingly Good
Review: I watched this film expecting something silly, but it turned out to be a very accomplished film. Taking a very bizarre concept (a bed that eats people), the director has managed to make a film filled with David Lynchesque surrealism that is equally intentionally humourous and frightening. The effects showing how the bed eats are very well done.

The movie (largely seen through the eyes of the ghost of Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde's favourite illustrator) is divided into three sections: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. The first part sets up the fact that the bed eats people as a couple stumble upon it. The second part, also taking place in the "present" shows another group of friends coming upon the bed. Scenes of these new visitors falling victim to it one at a time are intercut with scenes of the bed's history and its origins. The bed, despite its immobility, manages to kill each victim with far more imagaination than the average movie serial killer. The third section deals with the final fates of the bed and the film's heroes.

Unfortunately, after watching the film once, all the surprises are gone, and the dreamlike pacing of it then becomes a negative instead of a positive. Despite this, I have no hesitation in recommending that this film be watched at least once.

The extras include the director explaining how this film became "lost", illustrating how dirty the film distribution business can be. If he had been able to release it in the early 1970s like he intended, this film would have been a classic, instead of something seen by only a few people with access to pirated copies.

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Summary: Found a Cast member
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