10 Horror Movies Where The Villain Is A Supposedly Inanimate Object

There's simply no hiding what George Barry's Death Bed: The Bed That Eats is about, or who the villain of the piece is. It's a bed.

Once every ten years, the titular bed comes alive, possessed by the blood and spirit of a demon who lost the love of his life on that very mattress, with a thirst and a hunger like any of us would experience after a decade without some scran. Separated into four courses, the film shows the bed consuming a smorgasbord of human offerings in the falling-down mansion where it lives, all watched over by an artist (Dave Marsh/Patrick Spence-Thomas) condemned to immortality behind a painting in the bedroom.

Hey, we didn't say it had to make sense.

Barry's only feature film, The Bed That Eats has gained something of a cult following since the '70s. So much so, in fact, the film had its theatrical premiere at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival in 2003, and was released on Blu-ray in 2013. And what's not to love? There's sex, rituals and blood aplenty, and when it's all said and done the bed gets its comeuppance and the artist gets to die. Yay?