Bed Of The Dead Analysis

The interestingly named Bed of the Dead made its premiere recently at the ongoing Montreal Fantasia Festival and it 's a flick that is both good and bad. The film from Director Jeff Maher (cinematographer on the recently released Bite) has a goofy premise and plenty of plotholes, but it also has a supple supply of gore to please gorehounds. However, does gore make up for a shoddy story? Read on to find out...

Plot Summary

Movie Review

There once stood an ancient tree drenched in the blood of sacrificial victims. However, the tree wasn 't meant to stand forever. Eventually, a man came and chopped the massive tree down and turned it into an extravagant bed. Said bed eventually ended up in a sex hotel for some odd reason and sat waiting for

Why is this bed evil? How did the bed get at the hotel? Why was the sleazy owner spared a grisly death by the bed? Why does the ending not make a lick of sense? All questions which are never answered.

As for the good stuff in the flick, it 's nice to see a group of film makers going back to the good ol ' days of pratcial effects. There is a good amount of blood and guts thrown around, which is a plus in my book. There is also a couple nice moments which may enlist a few goosebumps. Once scene involving something coming out of the bed was pretty effectively freaky.

In the end, though, Bed of the Dead borrows a lot of tropes and stylistic choices from other films. The creepy contortionist ghost lady has been down to death, but yet here it is in a scene that instead of being scary was feeling played out. A film with a title like Bed of the Dead had the chance to do something really crazy and original, but opted to borrow cliche 's instead.

Verdict

Bed of the Dead won 't win awards for originality or story, but it probably will win over people who enjoy a bit of blood and cuts in their bedrooms. I didn 't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would given the fun title, but I think it 's worth checking out at