The other day I was looking through the upcoming DVD releases from Amazon and saw one called Death Bed - The Bed That Eats. Being a curious type I just had to take a look. While the movie didn't look that appealing to me (I've never been a big fan of horror movies), the sole comment about it was. The reviewer is someone who is writing a book on horror movies and was talking about when he first saw the movies and how he tried to track down who exactly made it.
I first saw Death Bed: The Bed That Eats in 1988: a friend had discovered it whilst browsing at a cheap video sale and decided to spring the film on me. I was smitten by its weird aura right there and then, and mystified too. Who on Earth made it? What was the director playing at? How did such a movie get made? Death Bed, with its cheesy cover and 'you're kidding me' title, was devoid of any credits, save for the words "(c) George Barry 1977." The mystery of Death Bed's origins was intensified as the film gathered momentum, from creepy comedy to poetic folk-tale to surreal horror: its mood ricocheted between registers in a way that defied categorisation, either as mind-warped outsider art, insane student project, or exploitation film gone awry....[Amazon.com - Death Bed Customer Reviews]
And of course, I also just realized where I'd heard the reviewer's name, Stephen Thrower, before. It's the same Setphen Thrower who was part of Coil.
Of course the point of this post was going to be that that Amazon's reviews are full of all kinds of obscure information that one might not normally run into, but it's also showing how you never know who you might run into reviewing a book or movie there.
