Bed of the Dead

Bed of the Dead (which premiered to a packed house at Fantasia Fest last week) features the most malevolent piece of furniture since the one seen in George Barry’s unfairly derided surreal masterpiece, Death Bed: The Bed that Eats. (Behold, a new subgenre!) Where Death Bed was rather indiscriminate, ingesting whomever was unlucky enough to lay onContinue reading “Bed of the Dead”

Let Me Make You a Martyr

There’s a sense of fatalism that permeates every frame of Cory Asraf and John Swab’s neo-noir, Let Me Make You a Martyr. At it’s most basic, it’s a unshakable feeling that not many characters in the film will live to find that elusive happy ending they so desperately seek. (But do they deserve it? With the exception ofContinue reading “Let Me Make You a Martyr”