For the first hour and 10 minutes this film just plodded along.

After having taken a fall down the stairs inside their new house while heavily pregnant, Julie gets ordered to spend the remainder of her pregnancy in bed, all 55 days of it. She quickly starts to hallucinate - wet footprints on the ceiling, a boy in the cupboard in the bedroom, and becomes convinced that it is the spirit of their first child who was sadly still born.

As she continues with these visions, her husband of course thinks she's slipping back into the madness she suffered after their loss. He brings a home nurse in to look after her while he's at work.

She continues having visions and attempts speaking to the boy. On one occasion he tells her to 'run' and 'she wants the baby'. She of course thinks it's the nurse who wants the baby. Her husband and nurse becoming more convinced she's losing it big time.

The last 15-20 minutes of the film, it just erupts. It all happens. Without spoiling any further i'll just say she was wrong about the nurse.

I will say one thing though. When she delivers the baby there is no umbilical cord and the wee one is incredibly clean for a new born. That moment in the film felt really odd.

I would say this is not a bad effort overall. It does create a certain tension and you do get the feeling coming through of Julie's paranoia and general mental state crumbling.

The ending, more the last 5 minutes or so were odd, shall we say. It was all very clear as to what was happening. There was no confusion, but it was an odd ending. I feel that could've been improved on.

Now, I hadn't actually ever heard about this 2022 horror movie titled "Bed Rest" from writer and director Lori Evans Taylor prior to stumbling upon it here in 2023. And with it being a horror movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I wanted to see if it was a good horror movie.

It wasn't. Well, I am maybe a bit jumpy on the trigger here, but I found "Bed Rest" to be a rather mundane, monotonous and generic horror movie about a couple being haunted. Yeah, "Bed Rest" didn't bring anything new to the genre, and what transpired on the screen had already been done numerous times in other similar horror movies. So you're not in for a grand horror experience, should you opt to sit down and watch "Bed Rest".

I will say that the acting performances in the movie were good. It was a very small cast ensemble, but luckily they were talented and were able to carry the movie, despite of having a bland script to work with.

Visually then "Bed Rest" was not innovative. It makes use of a couple of jump scares, but that is it. It wasn't making use of a bunch of special effects.

Sure, "Bed Rest" was watchable, but it was a generic attempt at a movie about a haunting.

My rating of "Bed Rest" lands on a four out of ten stars.