The Bride

The Bride (also known as The House That Cried Murder or Last House on Massacre Street) is a 1973 American horror film directed by Jean-Marie Pélissié and starring Robin Strasser, Arthur Roberts, and John Beal. Plot Barbara, a wealthy 25-year-old socialite, shows her lover, David, the unfinished modernist home she is building for herself in the countryside. The home's construction has been financed by Barbara's wealthy father, who owns an accounting firm where David is an employee. She promises they will soon live there together, despite her father's apprehensions toward David. Some time later, during the couple's wedding reception at Barbara's familial estate, David sneaks away to have sex with Ellen, his former girlfriend. Barbara discovers the two in bed and becomes enraged, attacking David with a pair of scissors. He manages to stop her after she cuts his arm. Barbara proceeds to walk through the reception, covered in blood, and destroys her wedding cake in a rage before fleeing. Barbara disappears, and David goes to meet her father two weeks later, who appears impervious about his daughter's whereabouts or the reason for her fleeing. He tells David that, since childhood, Barbara has possessed a tendency toward cruelty, recounting a story in which she tortured and then butchered her pet chicken. David continues to carry on his affair with Ellen, which is soon discovered by Barbara's father. David receives threatening phone calls from an answering service claiming to be from Barbara. Later, Ellen has nightmare of Barbara trying to kill her, while David dreams of Barbara accosting him in her unfinished home. The next morning, Ellen awakens to find a severed chicken head on her pillow, and subsequently discovers its mutilated body in the refrigerator. Upstairs, she discovers a wedding dress hanging on a wall, with a skull mask behind the veil.