Barbara (THTCM)
Background
Barbara is a 25 year old heiress in Connecticut. Her father is The Father and she is in a relationship with David. She once had a chicken for a pet, but brutally murdered it after it pecked her.
During the events of The House That Cried Murder (1973) played by Robin Strasser
Barbara shows David the house she designed which is currently under construction. She tells him the house reflects her and she could live in it forever. She takes him inside and tells him the story of how she was driving with Roger and saw a neighborhood development and decided to build a house. She talked it over with The Father and begged him for the money to build it, until he relented. They have a picnic outside and Barbara asks David when he is going to ask The Father for permission to marry her. He tells her, she should be the one to bring it up to The Father. Days later, Barbara insists to The Father that she wants David and intends to have him. The Father tells Barbara that there is something negative about David's character and doesn't think David really loves her. She tells him, she is going to marry David no matter what and tells The Father to have her stepmom make the arrangements.
On the day of the wedding, the Wedding Guests cheer Barbara and David on their marriage, while the Wedding Band plays. Barbara notices David has been gone for some time and goes into the house. She catches David and Helen together, grabs a pair of scissors and slashes David in the arm with them. She tells David that The Father was right and walks outside covered in David's blood. She yells at the Wedding Guests and smashes the wedding cake and runs off, before getting in her car and driving away. She returns to the house she is building and hangs herself. David drives to the house and goes inside. He finds The Father inside, who tells him the house is a monument to Barbara. The Father then shows Barbara's embalmed body resting in a coffin. He tells David, he found Barbara dead from having hung herself. He admits to David, that he is the one that has been harassing him and Helen. The Father takes David to the coffin and as David is staring at Barbara's body, The Father attacks him with an axe. David wakes up and hears Barbara laughing. He finds her and is upset and accuses Barbara of playing a prank on him. David tells her he is going to divorce her and Barbara shows him their corpses lying on the ground. Barbara then tells David that they will be together, forever in the house and David screams.
