Looking for the best mattress for your money? To cut through the clutter of advertising you'll see out there, Consumer Reports has a look at the best mattresses and mattress retailers. The magazine broke out their findings by category: Traditional innerspring, memory foam and adjustable air. In each category, Consumer Reports recommends a best buy, as well as other mattresses they recommend based on ratings. Innerspring: The Denver Mattress Doctor's Choice for $500. The Sealy Posturepedic Hybrid Trust Cushion for $1,275 is also a best buy in this category, with a higher rating, but it's obviously a bit more expensive. Memory foam: Tuft & Needle Ten for $600. (Message from Tuft & Needle: "We don't actually use any memory foam in our mattress. We use our own time of polyfoam, T&N Adaptive™ foam. We created it with a foam scientist to have the pressure relief and comfort of memory foam and the breathability and support of latex foam.") The Novaform 14" Serafina Pearl Gel (Costco) is also a "best buy" pick for this category, but it's more expensive at $800.
Adjustable air: Sleep Number c2 Bed for $800. It's important to remember that price does not necessarily equate to satisfaction with mattresses. A more expensive mattress may not make for a better product. For more tips on finding the right mattress for you, check out Consumer Reports' buying guide here. Read more: What you need to know about sleeping pills On the question of retailers, Consumer Reports ranked the Original Mattress Factory stores as the top choice for customer satisfaction. Costco Wholesale was a close second. The high placement for Costco may reflect their return policy on mattresses: A full money back refund without penalty and no time limit. That really makes Costco stand apart! I particularly like the warehouse clubs for mattress shopping, and I've long advised people to test the mattress right there in the store for an extended period. Bring a book or tablet to Costco or Sam's Club and get those mattresses off the displays or yank them off the walls.
Then lay there for 15 minutes and see how you like the feel before you buy. There's one more option I want to mention to you. Casper is a new mattress company that's beloved by millennials. Their mattress comes via package delivery in this tiny box and you open it and watch it unfold before your eyes. The mattress, which sells for between $500 and $950, is made of memory foam and latex. Here's the reason a lot of young people really like this company: Casper gives you 100 nights to test out their mattress. If you don't like it, you send it back for 100% refund.Until now the list of movies about killer beds could be counted on one one-fingered hand, but while 1977’s Death Bed: The Bed That Eats has dominated the sub-sub-subgenre for decades it has finally gotten some company. Happily for those who’ve seen that earlier film and wished it was more focused on wetting the bed with blood, Jeff Maher’s Bed of the Dead is here to give you just that.Virgil (Colin Price) is a cop with baggage.
He’s just returned from a leave of absence after being cleared of a shooting incident, but while he’s legally off the hook he suspects he’s guilty all the same. His first case back immediately takes his mind off his own problems as it presents him with numerous issues of its own. Five dead bodies have been discovered in a local sex club, specifically in or near room 18. A fire tore through the room, but while the bodies are burned it appears they died under far more violent circumstances.Running simultaneous to Virgil’s on-site investigation are the events leading up to the fire as four friends check in to the doomed room. Sandy (Alysa King) is there with her boyfriend, Ren (Dennis Andres), who’s celebrating his birthday by trying to engage in a foursome. The other two pieces of his hopeful flesh puzzle are his best friend Fred (George Krissa) and Fred’s girlfriend, Nancy (Gwenlyn Cumyn). The foursome come together on the bed, but Ren’s hope of the quartet truly coming together is dashed when the girls change their minds.
Things get worse when they realize that anyone who steps foot off the bed is killed in gruesome ways by an unseen force.Maher and co-writer Cody Calahan keep things moving nicely while shifting back and forth between the event itself and Virgil’s investigation, and along with an early credits sequence showing the bed frame’s bloody, death-related origin it becomes clear that guilt over past transgressions is what marks these people for death. It’s a ridiculous setup, but they use it to fuel a cautionary tale of sorts involving past sins and payments due.The deaths themselves involve copious amounts of bloodletting as geysers spew across the floor and fall from above coating those below in a crimson shower. The hellish piece of furniture uses hallucinations powered by their own memories to draw and tease them away from the bed, but the damage they suffer is very real indeed. Phantom dog bites, exploding torsos, and ghostly visitors abound (including one creepily reminiscent of a certain deleted scene from The Exorcist), and honestly I have to expect this establishment has some very poor Yelp reviews.
The goofy-sounding premise is played straight, and along with some inspired and gory visuals the film never loses viewer focus, but the script sees a few popped springs in the mattress. The foursome exhibit ridiculously poor communication skills in their attempts to share often vital information, and they make some fairly big leaps of acceptance early on in their predicament. While these elements could have used more time in their fleshing out the film’s theme of guilt and punishment is pressed a bit too thick and often. A story turn partway through opens the door to an additional supernatural twist leading toward a satisfying conclusion, but viewers will most likely get there well before the film itself does.Bed of the Dead feels in some ways like an elongated Tales from the Crypt episode — one of the less funny ones — and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. There’s a shorter version and a longer cut here that would both probably be better, but as it stands there’s more than enough bloody fun in the bedroom to make checking in worthwhile.