Death Bed (2002)

The film opens with a black & white scene set in the 1920's or 30's where a couple are indulging in some kinky bondage. Then we cut to the present day where a young couple move into an LA apartment & inherit the bed from the first scene, which turns out to be haunted and turns their lives upside down. The DVD cover has Stuart Gordon Presents on it but it's a million miles from Re-Animator, From Beyond, etc & I expect his association with DeathBed was only slight. For A Full Moon Pictures/Film2000 release the acting is quite reasonable. The plot revolves mainly around the couple & their bed, it really does drag but perhaps with a bigger budget & in more capable hands it could have been expanded. There is a fair amount of soft sex, a couple of jump scares & a very brutal,gory climax but DeathBed could easily send you to sleep Zzzzzz

I caught this one on Amazon Prime under the title EVIL NEVER SLEEPS rather than DEATHBED. It's a straight to video Z-grade B-movie shot by the lamentable Danny Draven, with Stuart Gordon and Charles band producing for Full Moon Pictures. The whole thing has an amateurish look which means that it's impossible to take it seriously. A couple come into possession of a cursed bed which begins to make them act in bizarre ways, with an emphasis on kinky sex which comes across as quite laughable. The whole thing is very tame and cheesy despite the promise of the title and genre. Poor old Joe Estevez has the decency to look embarrassed by appearing. There are also a couple of low rent ghost and monster scenes, but overall this is quite pitiful.

This film is what I like to call `The soft-porn ghost story' I will tell you why...*Spoilers*At the start of the film we find Karen an artist (Tanya Dempsey) and Jerry a photographer (Brave Matthews) They are a recently married couple wanted to move into this big LA loft, that over looks the Hollywood sign. Wait i'm getting ahead of myself sorry. The film really starts in black and white. An old bed sit's with this scary pig faced guy chocking a women who looks like Catherine Zeta-Jones in `Chicago" Anyways lets get back to now. The two lovebirds get the loft from a guy who looks just like Martin Sheen, and this all leads up to them finding the same bed old pig guy was on in the 20's.The bed makes them do some crazy things. It turns are poor lead into a whore! But really I have to say, I liked the big orgasims, and hard gasping that the very cute Karen and her stud hubby Jerry did while being under the beds control. I myself had a similar trouble with a bed, but it just made my heart beat faster (Long story)Okay, so every chance they get there's more sex. One funny part is during the 3rd love scene; Jerry is holding Karen's breasts (while being chocked by her) so you couldn't see her nipples. That's what I like, you don't have to show much of anything for the two to be sexy, and that's a hard task. So very good you two!Jerry later on has a dream with the same Chicago gal that has been in Karen's dreams too. This gal goes out and seduces him, and there's another sex scene. This time Chicago gal takes off her top! Hey I thought this was a good old family ghost movie? Why doesn't Jerry hold her nipples to block them from the camera? Anyways lets more on you pervert's. The movie ends on a sad note. Cutie Jerry is possessed by pig face, and ties to kill his wife. But she doesn't go down without a fight.with a hammer! She grab's a hammer, and in the funniest part of the film, wack's Jerry/Pig Face with it. But no not once, but over and over so that his skull sinks into a pool of blood, and guts. And when it comes on contact with his skull the sound effect is like she's hitting a 200-pound metal weight. And watch to see how she swings it, classic!Now it may sound as if I didn't like this movie, but I did. The main leads are sexy, and keep you into the story. It was their first movie, but I hope to see more of them in the future. The film plot is very oringal(ha ha) and it is filmed okay.

I saw this movie previewed before something else I rented a while back...and it looked decent. I've seen some good stuff from Full Moon video, and thought it was worth a shot... Unfortunately, this was not good stuff.The story is about a possessed bed. A couple moves into a new apartment, discovers the bed, and odd things start happening. Odd things like the woman discovers kinky sex. And the man discovers kinky sex. And the woman draws pictures of kinky sex. And the man photographs kinky sex. And they both start having dreams about dead people having kinky sex. You'd think a movie with so much kinky sex would be good, right?Well.... No. The problem is that this is supposed to be a scary movie, or at least a thriller, and it just doesn't deliver. There is little tension, no suspense, and no fear. Aside from some troubling dreams and visions, there really isn't anything for this couple to be worried about. The whole movie is basically the two of them having these visions and playing around in bed. Sure, you get a monster fight at the end...and some bloodshed...but nothing spectacular... There's only one murder, and one good scare, and that's it.And the kinky sex? Don't get your hopes up (or anything else for that matter). Their idea of kinky sex is woman on top, fully clothed, trying to strangle her mate with a necktie. Not exactly my idea of a good time.