I've seen this tale of a demonic bed that eats people listed as surrealist horror. I think that might give too much credit to the filmmakers. It plays it straight, or at least as straight as you can play a movie about a people-chomping canopy bed, but then they throw in some clearly intentional comedic elements, like the carrot-chomping sounds the bed makes whenever it eats something or someone.
Apparently this was filmed back in 1972, completed in '77 and then not officially released until 2003 when the director, George Barry, found out that bootlegs of his film were circulating and had a cult following, so he figured he's make a little money off of his only film by putting it out himself. Then comedian Patton Oswalt gave the film even more infamy by doing a whole bit about it on one of his stand-up albums.
You get a pretty cool scene where a guy has his hands nibbled down to skeleton paws, a black lady who gets her legs chomped on but manages to escape the deadly bed and take up a really long time trying to drag her ass to safety before being lassoed back by an evil grabby sheet(DEATH LINEN? I smell a sequel!) and then some demonic exorcism nonsense to rap it all up. A bit stretched out for such a stupid concept but I do admire the idiocy of it all.
There is a 2002 shot-on-video DEATHBED that Stuart Gordon produced that is sorta based on this but I've yet to catch that one.
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