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.

The next morning, Ellen awakens to find a severed chicken head on her pillow, and subsequently discovers its mutilated body in the refrigerator.

She then brings him to an open landing to observe the living room below; David looks down, and in horror, sees his own dead body lying next to Barbara's embalmed corpse, still posed in the coffin.

[4] Writer John Grissmer went on to write and direct the horror films Scalpel (1977) and Blood Rage (1987),[3] which features a drive-in marquee advertising The House That Cried Murder in its opening scene.

The Bride has a lonely, nightmarish quality and the really scary sequences are provided by special effects and Geoffrey Stephenson's creative photography, not from the contrived, hollow narrative.