{"id":21858,"date":"2016-08-13T00:37:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T04:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21858"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:10:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:10:37","slug":"bed-of-the-dead-2016-fantasia-international-film-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/13\/bed-of-the-dead-2016-fantasia-international-film-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Bed of the Dead (2016) [Fantasia International Film Festival 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bedofthedead\"<\/a>Two couples in their twenties book a room with a particularly big bed at a sex club, to explore some options for one of the guys\u2019 birthday.\u00a0 Once on the bed, it becomes clear that supernatural forces are at play as they start hallucinating and being picked off one by one.\u00a0 A cop investigating the aftermath discovers more than he expected and is pulled into the situation deeper than he planned.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Director Jeff Maher co-wrote with Cody Calahan and together they create an effective story about a bed imbued with supernatural powers.\u00a0 A story basis that could have been goofy, ridiculous, or flat out silly turns into a story of regrets, sorrow, and redemption dripping with lots of blood.\u00a0 The characters they bring to the screen are not super developed but in the case of the leads, there is more to them then first meets the eye.\u00a0 Their time spent on the bed shows their true colors and builds them up to be imperfect characters that the viewers can care about and will want to see where it all goes for them.\u00a0 The way the film is built, without giving any of it away, between the people on the bed and the cop investigating what happened works really well without falling into too many clich\u00e9s or becoming cheesy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cop is played by Colin Price who gives a good conflicted performance, showing the cop\u2019s want to redeem something from his past.\u00a0 His portrayal shows the right amount of emotions while working to understand what is going on in the room, on that bed.\u00a0 In the parts of the two couples renting the room are Alysa King as Sandy, Dennis Andres as Ren, Gwenlyn Cumyn as Nancy, and George Krissa as Fred.\u00a0 Alysa King and Gwenlyn Cumyn catch the attention in particular with King giving the most grabbing performances.\u00a0 No one in the cast is off note; everyone gives a good to very good performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

These performances are supported by strong special effects with some truly great set-pieces by Sara Feehan, Carlos Henriques, Shaun Hunter, and Monica Pavez.\u00a0 The film is nicely bloody, with one scene particularly so.\u00a0 Also supporting all of this is the cinematography by Micha Dahan who frames every shot beautifully.\u00a0 \u201cBed of the Dead\u201d was shot on RED and absolutely shows it, everything is crispy clear and details, even in dark scenes, are easily seen.\u00a0 This brings back to the special effects which, when shot this way, need to be excellent to avoid showing defects to the viewers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBed of the Dead\u201d is a fun horror film with deeper themes than most basic paranormal horror films.\u00a0 It could easily have gone the way of \u201cDeathbed: The Bed That Eats,\u201d but it\u2019s much better and very well executed.\u00a0 It\u2019s a beautiful looking, well-acted film with good writing and good effects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fantasia International Film Festival ran from July 14th<\/sup> until August 3rd<\/sup>, 2016 and will be back in the summer of 2017.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two couples in their twenties book a room with a particularly big bed at a sex club, to explore some options for one of the guys\u2019 birthday.\u00a0 Once on the bed, it becomes clear that supernatural forces are at play as they start hallucinating and being picked off one by one.\u00a0 A cop investigating the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,1284,12],"tags":[120,367,477,703,1008],"class_list":["post-21858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-b","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21956,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions\/21956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}