Stevieboy666
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
JoeB131
Rented this one by mistake thinking it was another film with the same title, and realizing that I had rented it some time before.Quick plot line. A couple consisting of an artist and photographer rent a studio apartment in Los Angeles from Joe Estevez, still cursing the fact his brother Martin Sheen could actually ACT! They find a bed in a forgotten room, but the bed is haunted by a nasty looking serial killer from the 1930's and his last victim. Their ghosts inhabit the couple, first enhancing their sex life, but eventually becoming more menacing.What ensues is cheap R-rated sex scenes, cheaper thrills and kind of a waste of time.
Dr. Gore
*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* I bought this video for four bucks. So this couple finds a bed in their attic. They decide to sleep on their new found discovery. It's too bad for them that this is a Deathbed. Seems there was a murder on the mattress back in the 30's and the essence of the murderer still inhabits it. The bad bed helps the couple become more sexually active until pure insanity starts to take hold of them.You know, a big part of me wants to like a movie about a supernatural bed that makes you horny. But I'm afraid "Deathbed" is just so completely ridiculous that I can't get into it. Hey, if the bed is the problem, why not buy a futon? Why not break out the sleeping bags or check into a motel? This movie is cheap and proud of it. All it has is a bed. That's it. A big fluffy, scary bed. Someone saw this bed and decided to base a movie around it. Eeek. I'm scared. There's no action, tension, nudity (!) or scares. There's just a bed. This movie has got me feeling sleepy.
HumanoidOfFlesh
Karen and her boyfriend Jerry move into their new Los Angeles apartment.They discover an old brass bed that Karen takes a liking to,unfortunately it has a really sinister history involving kinky sex murders."Deathbed" tries to be a creepy supernatural tale,but fails miserably.The action is slow,the acting is nothing special and there is no suspense whatsoever.Even the sex scenes are lame.The climax is pretty gory and violent,so fans of splatter should be pleased.However the first hour of "Deathbed" is deadly dull and offers some tired horror movie conventions and cheap scares.Definitely one to avoid.My rating: 4 out of 10 and that's being generous.Watch "Re-Animator" or "Castle Freak" instead.