A demon’s heartbreak spawns a bed with an insatiable appetite—for flesh.
DEATH BED: THE BED THAT EATS
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!
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats is a 1977 American horror film directed by George Barry about a demon-conjured bed that comes to life and devours anyone unlucky enough to sleep in it.
Synopsis
Breakfast
A young couple trespass into the building and discover the bed. They make love on the bed, and the bed devours them. The artist mocks the bed for its stupidity. Enraged, the bed telekinetically destroys most of the house except for the room it is in.
Lunch
Three women discover the now-destroyed house. The bed eats one of the young women, but reacts to one of the other women by bleeding in agony. The artist realizes that the bed reacts with pain to the woman because she resembles its "mother" (the woman whose death caused the bed's creation). Elsewhere, the brother of one of the women goes out looking for her.
Dinner
One of the two remaining women sleeps on the bed. She wakes as the bed begins eating her, but as she tries to escape, the bed snares her in its sheets and drags her back to be eaten. The last woman unsuccessfully tries to save her. The brother locates the surviving woman, only to have the bed trap them both. The brother attempts to rescue the previously eaten woman, only to have his hands eaten to the bone by the bed.
Just Desserts
The demon that created the bed falls asleep, which renders the bed powerless and allows the artist to communicate with the woman. The artist describes a ritual that will destroy the bed. The woman carries out the ritual, which teleports the bed out of the room and revives the bed's real "mother," but at the cost of killing the surviving woman. The bed's mother completes the ritual by having sex with the brother, causing the bed to burst into flames and die, allowing the artist to finally pass on.
- Director
- George Barry
- Writer
- George Barry
- Release
- 1977
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Genres
- Horror
- Also Known As
- На смертном одре: Постель-людоед, Deathbed
Why Cult
The bed isn’t just a prop—it’s the movie’s monstrous star, brought to life by a demon’s grief and now hungry for human victims.
The artist Aubrey Beardsley is condemned to immortality behind a painting, forced to witness the bed’s gruesome meals for eternity.
Three unsuspecting girls, seeking a weekend getaway, stumble into a nightmare where the guest room wants more than rent.
A singular blend of supernatural folklore and offbeat horror, born in the 1970s underground of American genre cinema.
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What is Death Bed: The Bed That Eats about? +
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats is a 1977 American horror film directed by George Barry about a demon-conjured bed that comes to life and devours anyone unlucky enough to sleep in it.
When was Death Bed: The Bed That Eats released? +
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats was released in 1977.
Who directed Death Bed: The Bed That Eats? +
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats was directed by George Barry.
How long is Death Bed: The Bed That Eats? +
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats has a runtime of 77 minutes.
What genre is Death Bed: The Bed That Eats? +
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats is a horror film.
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