David (THTCM)
Background
David is an accountant in Connecticut. He is in a relationship with Barbara, but used to be in a relationship with Helen.
During the events of The House That Cried Murder (1973) played by Arthur Roberts
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.
On the day of the wedding, the Wedding Guests cheer Barbara and David on their marriage, while the Wedding Band plays. Helen shows up to the wedding to the surprise of David. Boy at the Wedding flirts with Helen and repeats his assertion that it is confusing times and hard to know what is relevant or irrelevant. David butts in and tells Helen to meet him upstairs in five minutes. They meet in a room in the house and start kissing. Barbara 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.
Two weeks later, The Father and David have a meeting at a restaurant. David asks The Father if he has heard from Barbara, but The Father tells him, Barbara is probably hiding. The Father warns David that Barbara has a cruel streak and has a propensity for violence. He goes on to tell David a story of when Barbara tormented her pet chicken until it pecked at her and then brutally murdered it. David goes home and tells Helen maybe she should move back to her place for the time being, but she refuses. David and Helen go to a fair and are followed by a private investigator. When they return home, David gets a phone call from an answering service who tells him Barbara is watching him. The Father has another meeting with David and tells him he hired a private investigator to find Barbara. The Father then brings up Helen and David starts to make excuses for being with Helen. David gets home and finds Helen dressed in a similar wedding dress as the one Barbara wore at her wedding. Helen tells him, she thought he had it sent, but he tells her to take it off. That night, David has a nightmare of being trapped in the house that Barbara built. David comes home and finds Helen gone and sees the wedding dress. He goes into the bedroom and sees the blood from the chicken and finds the chicken head. The phone rings and the answering service tells him, Helen left and he should visit Barbara at the house she built.
He 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.
