Bed

As a storyteller, Emily Bennett does not shy away from opacity. She embraces ambiguity, enveloping the viewer in shadows, then weaponizes it with startling clarity. As in ALONE WITH YOU, her feature with Justin Brooks, all you know at the start (and for most of the film) is that something is very very wrong. In BED, there are clues throughout, from phone messages, whose diminishing sympathy raises our concerns, to the titular bed itself. Possession story? A haunting? Both it turns out, but not in the way you might think.

BED is a story of invasion and reclamation, beginning in emotional ruins, chronicling the fight back to a safety and security that have been brutally violated. It's not an easy journey for Bennett's protagonist, nor does she make it one for the audience, nor should she. Anyone who has fought this fight, especially in their own home, we'll see through the darkness and wants to guide her into the light...