The Bride

This came as a huge surprise to me. The movie is great!! Love the characters,story,directing and score. The little twist we get in the 3rd act is the best part!! Definitely worth a watch.

I absolutely LOVE those gloriously enticing and typically 70's horror titles starting with words like "The House That…". These juicy titles, usually in combination with a wonderfully creepy movie poster and tagline, often formed the biggest selling arguments for contemporary low-budgeted underground exploitation flicks. Productions like these couldn't always rely on overwhelming special effects or spectacular action sequences, so an extra tantalizing title is more than welcome. "The House That Cried Murder" is a downright fantastic slice of seventies' terror, and I'm actually surprised that it isn't mentioned more often by fellow genre fanatics. The film has a terrific albeit absurd plot, original twists and unexpected surprises, delightfully over-the-top performances and – most of all – a uniquely macabre and ominous atmosphere. The peculiar Barbara is a spoiled rich girl who gets everything she wants simply by shouting out the words: "Daddy, I want that". With daddy's money she designed a strange isolated house in the countryside and now she has her mind set on marrying the hunky David, even though her father doesn't trust him one bit. And right he is, as Barbara catches David smooching with his ex-girlfriend Ellen on their wedding day! So Barbara stabs him in the arm with scissors and hysterically drives off in her blood-spattered wedding dress. Two weeks later, Barbara is still missing but both David and Ellen suffer from vividly terrifying nightmares. David is lured back to Barbara's dream house, where they were supposed to spend their married life together, unaware of the ghastly surprise that awaits him there. "The House That Cried Murder" is a sick and twisted tale of horror with a marvelously gruesome finale. The director exactly knows when to mount the suspense and makes great use of eerie music (although it's more like noise) and set pieces. The titular house forms an eccentric decor as well, as it looks gloomy in its unfinished state. It's a really a shame that too many sequences are so dark you can barely see what is happening. The acting performances are good, especially Robin Strasser as Barbara. She's a totally bonkers and mildly petrifying shrew, but I love her anyways

The Bride (1973)

** (out of 4)

Barbara (Robin Stasser) goes against her rich father's wishes and marries David (Arthur Roberts). She believes their life is going to be perfect until minutes after their wedding she discovers him with his ex-lover Ellen (Iva Jean Saraceni). Most women would just cry and move on but not Barbara as she plans on using every way possible to haunt and destroy the two.

This film has been released under several different titles including THE HOUSE THAT CRIED MURDER and LAST HOUSE ON MASSACRE STREET, which was obviously an attempt to try and cash in on the Wes Craven film. I think this is the perfect example of a regional horror film that just didn't quite have enough going for it so the distributor had to keep changing up titles to hope it would draw in some crowds. THE BRIDE isn't an awful movie but at the same time it just doesn't have enough going for it to make it a complete success.

The best thing about the film is the fact that you can feel it's region. The film was shot in Connecticut and it just looks quite different. I mean, there hasn't been too many movies shot there so this here kind of just strikes you as watching something new. The locations were quite good and the film also benefits from just being very weird. There are silly moments where the bride and his man are just romantically walking around and it seems like a commercial for gum or something.

There's one brutal murder that is quite shocking in its own way. The biggest problem with the movie is the fact that there's just not much going for it storywise. The man and his new woman are constantly having nightmares or receiving strange phone calls. None of this contains any suspense. The direction doesn't add any tension to the film and it just seems very flat. The performances are decent but they all manage to hit a few bad notes throughout.

THE BRIDE will be worth watching to fans of horror films but it just doesn't have enough to make it worth viewing for others.

The 70's were such a great time for horror. Horror films were being churned out due to the glut of drive-ins and grindhouses desperate for content and so many filmmakers were only too happy to supply them with films to show. The Bride a.k.a. The House That Cried Murder is one of the strange films that could have only been made at this time.

Sometimes feeling like a feature length Twilight Zone or Tales From the Crypt episode, The Bride revolves around a man engaged to marry a spoiled rich girl who's caught making out with the ex on the day of the wedding. Needless to say, this drives the titular bride insane and she attacks him with scissors and runs away. Where is she? Perhaps at the strange modern home she just had her father build her in the country? Or is she plotting an elaborate revenge plot on her would-be husband?

The Bride keeps the audience on their toes throughout even though its chills are of the strictly PG variety. By the time you get to the insane finale, all bets are off. The Bride is one that lingers with you for awhile after you've seen it. I highly recommend it.

A rich man's daughter Barbara marries David,one of her dad's employees.She built herself a rather strange looking house on the field.During the wedding David kisses his former girlfriend Helen.Freshly married Barbara sees love-making session,stabs David's arm with a pair of scissors and flees in her bloody bridal gown.Strange things begin to happen for example Barb finds decapitated head of a chicken on her pillow and David has ghastly nightmares."The House That Cried Murder" is an overlooked psychological horror with several creepy scenes.The soundtrack is pretty bad with one of the worst wedding bands ever captured on screen,but the climax is wonderfully eerie and bizarre."The House That Cried Murder" deserves to be seen.8 out of 10.