Martin Avery
Background
Martin Avery is a building re-modeler in Mandeville, Louisiana.
During the events of The Beyond (1981) played by Michele Mirabella
Liza Merrill and Martin are at the now dilapidated Seven Doors Hotel. She tells him she only inherited the hotel and no money along with it, but he insists they continue on with the architectural plans he has for it. She calls out to Larry who tells her he will have finished painting one of the sides of the hotel by the end of the day. Larry screams and falls off the scaffolding and lands on his back. He is brought into the motel where he tells Liza and Martin what he saw. Liza asks Arthur where the doctor is and he tells her the doctor is on his way. Dr. John McCabe drives up and tells Liza, Larry needs to get to the hospital. Dr. McCabe then transports Larry to his car and drives away. Martin finds the painting Schweick was painting the night he was killed and shows it to Liza. The buzzer from room 36 suddenly starts to go off, but Liza says no one is in the room. Later, Liza has a meeting with Martin and Martin goes to the parish clerk's office to get the plans for the hotel. The Town Clerk shows Martin where he can find the files on a tall bookshelf and then leaves for lunch. As Martin is looking at the plans for the hotel, he notices something, but falls off the ladder he was on and breaks his back. As he lies unconscious, tarantulas climb onto his body and when he wakes up, they attack his face and chew off his skin and eyeball.