Demene Hall, Julie RitterLinda Bond, William Russ

An artist's ghost watches in horror as innocent victims fall prey to the whims of a demonic old bed originally designed to seduce a beautiful woman. Can an unsuspecting pair of sleepy siblings (Rosa L...( read more  read more... )uxemburg, William Russ) reverse the curse, or will they, too, meet a horrible fate? Although it was completed in 1977, this now-classic horror flick from writer-director George Barry wasn't released for 25 years.

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Unrated, 77 min

Directed by: George Barry

Release Date: January 1, 1977

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DVD Release Date: April 5, 2005

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  • December 2, 2007
    This movie was so gangsta they didn't release it until 2003.

    "You life will not be truly complete until you have seen a movie about a bed that eats people." - exactly
  • February 18, 2008
    We're talking one downright magical work of cinema.
  • October 13, 2009
    This is just one of those movies. It seems totally ridiculous but it's just a whole lotta fun. I laugh like a school girl from the Philippines every time I watch it. It's a great party film. Although, I must admit I did stab my mattress 9 times after viewing this. Ya'know, just i...( read more)n case..
  • June 12, 2009
    i almost don't want to see it though...b/c i don't know if anything can live up to the expectations i have for this.
  • June 9, 2009
    Thanks Patton Oswalt!
  • May 20, 2008
    Thanks, Patton, for turning me onto this local film.

    This another one of thsoe movies like Black Samurai that I rated so high because it is oh-so-enjoyably-terrible. I mean, this movie is just God awful. I guess the best way to review this movie is to let you know wha...( read more)t you are seeing at first. What most of the film is are scenes of the bed, people getting on the bed with some object, the object gets foamed around with a yellow bile and then shown in a pool of yellow. The bed then decides to eat the people in the same manner. We watch this scene OVER and OVER again. Throughout time, the bed has done this and we get to watch the killing of all these people by foamy bile digestion. Trust me, that's pretty accurate.

    The movie is really kind of typical 70's devil movie. There's this huge elaborate origin legend of a demon bleeding on the bed and how it can only be killed for a few hours every ten years. But then there are the characters, or as I call them "bed fodder." These characters don't get much back story. We just know that there's the frumpy naked girl (IT'S A MOVIE ABOUT A KILLER BED! THERE'S GONNA BE SOME TITS!) These people get eaten.

    The best part of the movie is bone hands though. I won't go into any kinds of details. But I think you can figure out "bone hands." Yeah. Exactly what it sounds like.

    Really, I don't think it would hurt to get a little drunk before watching this movie. I certainly did and it helped me. The overall benefit of this movie is that it is really short and fairly straightforward. It's camp as hell and sports all kinds of 70's breasts. That's right, I'm superficial, but that's okay sometimes. I also have to stress that you probably shouldn't watch this movie alone. This is an enjoyable discussion piece because it is so bad. Trust me, a good time.
  • February 29, 2008
    I'm surprised anyone else on Flixster has reviewed this thing. We viewed this one evening during a Bad Movie night that included other classics such as Hawk the Slayer.

    The plot, such as it is, is about a Bed. That eats. People. That's about it. It's divided up into segment...( read more)s named Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

    If I dared you to make a 90 minute movie about a bed eating people, do you think you could do it well? You've still got your chance to make that dream come true, because it certainly didn't happen here. The world is surely begging for a remake.

    1 star for the title alone, which had me laughing out loud. Do yourself a favor and just laugh at the title and imagine what the movie might be like. It's better that way.
  • February 1, 2008
    GREAT MOVIE!! THE SKELETON HANDS WERE AMAZINGLY DONE, IN FACT THIS MOVIE HAS INSPIRED ME TO BECOME A DIRECTOR JUST LIKE GEORGE BARRY!!

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