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* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: Shooting either ramp will show an animation of a clock being advanced. Get it to midnight to start Un-Happy Hour.
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* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''
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* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''
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* CoitusEnsues: ''Make Out Mayhem'', the third mode on the Freak Fryer, invokes this, with many clips of gratuitous love scenes from different movies playing on the display.
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* ScoreMultiplier: Scoring can be doubled or [[UpToEleven quadrupled]] for a short time by completing both banks of side targets and then rolling over the lit return lane.
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* ScoreMultiplier: Scoring can be doubled or [[UpToEleven quadrupled]] quadrupled for a short time by completing both banks of side targets and then rolling over the lit return lane.
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''Elvira's House of Horrors'' initially came in three editions: Premium, Limited, and Signature. The 400 Limited Edition machines upgrade the game in various (largely cosmetic) ways, including adding a shaker motor and artwork on the cabinet's interior walls. Meanwhile, the 50 Signature Edition games have embossed cabinet decals and came with a handful of other goods: a swatch from Elvira's velvet couch and an autographed trading card. In 2021, Stern [[https://sternpinball.com/2021/10/26/elvira-and-stern-pinball-announce-new-40th-anniversary-edition-elvira-house-of-horrors-pinball-machine/ announced a new edition of the game]] [[MilestoneCelebration celebrating the 40th anniversary]] of Elvira's debut; it includes purple armor for the cabinet, modified artwork throughout the game, another autographed trading card, and a signed copy of Peterson's then-recent autobiography, ''Yours Cruelly, Elvira''.
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** After completing all the main goals in the game, the final wizard mode is "Wild Market Value". The Wild Market Value is an award that gradually builds up over the course of the game every time the ball hits the target by the pop bumpers. A hurry-up will start at the current "Wild Market Value"; hit the target to award the hurry-up and sell the house.
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* ''The Wild Woman of Wongo''
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* ''The Wild Woman Women of Wongo''
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** The Hand of Fate wheel is activated by losing the ball down the left outlane. However, one of the six wedges of the wheel awards an extra ball save, thus effectively negating the drain.
** The right outlane also features a ball save that can be lit after defeating any Deadhead.
** The right outlane also features a ball save that can be lit after defeating any Deadhead.
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** The Hand of Fate wheel is activated by losing the ball down the left outlane. However, one of the six wedges of the wheel awards an extra ball save, thus effectively negating the drain.
** The right outlane also features a ball save that can be lit after defeatingany Deadhead.Deadheads.
** The right outlane also features a ball save that can be lit after defeating
** One of the Hand of Fate wheel awards doubles the end of ball bonus, on top of any other multipliers.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[ConversationalTroping Pointed out]] and mocked InUniverse; Elvira doesn’t bother pretending that the "monsters" in ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' are anything but lobsters, to the point where the mode might conclude with her craving lobster and asking the artist to draw her some butter.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[ConversationalTroping Pointed out]] and mocked InUniverse; Elvira doesn’t bother pretending that the "monsters" in ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' are anything but lobsters, giant lobster silhouettes, to the point where the mode might conclude with her craving lobster and asking the artist to draw her some butter.
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** Successfully completing Gappa Angry and starting 6-ball Multiball begins firing every coil on the playfield for a few seconds. This references the Stiff-O-Meter sequence from ''Scared Stiff'' and the [[MindScrew fake reset]] that occurs when you reach the top of the meter.
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* {{Leitmotif}}: During the mode based on ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'', making the first few shots might cause a brief snippet of Torgo's theme to play.
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* JumpScare: Invoked by the Gar-Goils, which can hit the glass if they’re hit hard enough and often get in the way of shots.
* {{Leitmotif}}: During the mode based on ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'', making the first few shots might cause a brief snippet of Torgo's theme to play. A note in a similar vein plays whenever one of the Hand of Fate targets is made as well.
* {{Leitmotif}}: During the mode based on ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'', making the first few shots might cause a brief snippet of Torgo's theme to play. A note in a similar vein plays whenever one of the Hand of Fate targets is made as well.
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* MindScrew: Successfully completing Gappa Angry by making it to the 6-ball Multiball and collecting the Super Jackpot will fire every coil on the game for a few seconds while the display shows Gappa’s demise.
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* WizardMode:
** Starting the first three haunts will qualify House Party as the next haunt. This is a 4-ball Multiball where all shots are lit for consistent Jackpots and the house entrance scores a Super Jackpot determined by how many Jackpots were collected before it was made.
** Completing the [[IdiosyncraticComboLevels Freak Fryer]] will light the house entrance to start Gappa Angry!, a multi-phase mode where balls have to be locked in several places around the playfield. A Jackpot value is built throughout the mode and can be collected through various methods; the total switch hits are added to a Super Jackpot that the player will collect when the mode finishes.
** Starting the first three haunts will qualify House Party as the next haunt. This is a 4-ball Multiball where all shots are lit for consistent Jackpots and the house entrance scores a Super Jackpot determined by how many Jackpots were collected before it was made.
** Completing the [[IdiosyncraticComboLevels Freak Fryer]] will light the house entrance to start Gappa Angry!, a multi-phase mode where balls have to be locked in several places around the playfield. A Jackpot value is built throughout the mode and can be collected through various methods; the total switch hits are added to a Super Jackpot that the player will collect when the mode finishes.
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* IncrediblyLameFun: Elvira isn’t too pleased to have to sit through ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'', as she [[ConversationalTroping clearly expresses]] in one possible ending to the mode:
--> "Well, that was fun in the worst possible way!"
--> "Well, that was fun in the worst possible way!"
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* RefugeeFromTVLand: The titular house is haunted by various old B-movie characters, and the player is tasked with sending back to their original films.
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* RefugeeFromTVLand: The titular house is haunted by various old B-movie characters, and the player is tasked with sending them all back to their original films.
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* ScoreMultiplier: Scoring can be doubled or [[UpToEleven quadrupled]] for a short time by completing both banks of side targets and then rolling over the lit return lane.
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** A ball that immediately drains from the Deadhead kickout will be saved.
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** Going back even further, the description for the House Party WizardMode proclaims that "it’s time to [[Pinball/ElviraAndThePartyMonsters party like monsters]]!"
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** Going back even further, the description for the House Party WizardMode proclaims that "it’s time to [[Pinball/ElviraAndThePartyMonsters party like monsters]]!"monsters]]!" The mode also opens with an organ playing a similar tune to the one from that game, complete with Elvira commenting [[DoubleEntendre “ooh, nice organ!”]] afterwards.
* CoitusEnsues: ''Make Out Mayhem'', the third mode on the Freak Fryer, invokes this, with many clips of gratuitous love scenes from different movies playing on the display.
* CoitusEnsues: ''Make Out Mayhem'', the third mode on the Freak Fryer, invokes this, with many clips of gratuitous love scenes from different movies playing on the display.
* IdiosyncraticComboLevels: The Freak Fryer contains six different levels and is charged by switch hits during normal play. Used prominently during [[WizardMode Gappa Angry!]], where each level on the meter corresponds to a different mode the player will receive after draining.
* PoolScene: ''Pool Party'', the lowest mode on the Freak Fryer, takes place during one. Make bumper hits for big points!
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[ConversationalTroping Pointed out]] and mocked InUniverse; Elvira doesn’t bother pretending that the "monsters" in ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' are anything but lobsters, to the point where the mode might conclude with her craving lobster.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[ConversationalTroping Pointed out]] and mocked InUniverse; Elvira doesn’t bother pretending that the "monsters" in ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' are anything but lobsters, to the point where the mode might conclude with her craving lobster.lobster and asking the artist to draw her some butter.
* TyopOnTheCover: In an [[StylisticSuck intentional example]], the insert for Drive Me Crazy on the right orbit reads “Drive Me Car-Zy”.
* TyopOnTheCover: In an [[StylisticSuck intentional example]], the insert for Drive Me Crazy on the right orbit reads “Drive Me Car-Zy”.
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** The Hand of Fate wheel is activated by losing the ball down the left outlane. However, one of the six wedges of the wheel awards an extra ball save, thus effectively negating the drain.
** The right outlane also features a ball save that can be lit after defeating any Deadhead.
** The Hand of Fate wheel is activated by losing the ball down the left outlane. However, one of the six wedges of the wheel awards an extra ball save, thus effectively negating the drain.
** The right outlane also features a ball save that can be lit after defeating any Deadhead.
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** The animation for starting locking a ball for Junk in the Trunk Multiball (which begins with a hand reaching out of the trunk to grab a flying ball) heavily resembles the animation for locking a ball in the coffin in ''Scared Stiff''.
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** Before Elvira starts speaking during the introduction to a Haunt, the logo to her longtime series ''Elvira's Movie Macabre'' is visible.
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** Film/{{Eegah}} is also depicted holding a can of shaving cream, referencing an infamous scene from the original film where he applies some before lapping it up.
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''Elvira's House of Horrors'' is a 2019 [[PhysicalPinballTables pinball table]] by Creator/{{Stern}} Pinball. It was designed by Creator/DennisNordman, with software by Lyman F. Sheats Jr and artwork by Creator/GregFreres. It acts as the third installment in an unofficial series of [[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira]]-themed tables, following Creator/WilliamsElectronics'[[note]]under their Bally label[[/note]] ''Pinball/ElviraAndThePartyMonsters'' and ''Pinball/ScaredStiff''.
The premise is simple: Elvira is trying to sell the HauntedHouse featured in the title, but must get rid of the various characters from various [[PublicDomainFeatureFilms public domain]] horror B-movies that inhabit it beforehand. The player must help her do so while also contending with the newly-risen Dead Heads and other creatures littering the premises. Along the way, they'll rise up the ranks on the B-Restorator, charge up the Freak Fryer, and find various pieces of Junk in the Trunk.
The game is notable as the very first pinball machine to have footage filmed specifically for its display – namely, Cassandra Peterson as Elvira giving an introduction and conclusion to each of the films featured in the game's primary modes. It also pulls footage from said films for use during play, as listed below. Other distinctive features include a physical model of the house itself on the playfield (with lights in the "windows" that can light up individually) and a Trunk that can act as both part of a ramp and a lock for multiball.
[[folder:List of films used]]
* ''Film/ABucketOfBlood''
* ''Film/AttackOfTheGiantLeeches''
* ''Beast From Haunted Cave''
* ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie''
* ''Film/{{Eegah}}''
* ''Gappa the Triphibian Monsters''
* ''Film/TheGiantGilaMonster''
* ''Film/HerculesAndTheCaptiveWomen''
* ''Film/IEatYourSkin''
* ''Film/JesseJamesMeetsFrankensteinsDaughter''
* ''Film/TheKillerShrews''
* ''Film/LadyFrankenstein''
* ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate''
* ''The Manster''
* ''Monster from a Prehistoric Planet''
* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''
* ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians''
* ''Film/TheSatanicRitesOfDracula''
* ''Scared to Death''
* ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace''
* ''Film/TheTerror''
* ''Film/TheWaspWoman''
* ''The Werewolf of Washington''
* ''The Wild Woman of Wongo''
* ''Film/Tormented1960''
* ''Untamed Women''
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!!This game contains examples of:
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The Hand of Fate wheel is activated by losing the ball down the left outlane. However, one of the six wedges of the wheel awards an extra ball save, thus effectively negating the drain.
* CallAHitPointASmeerp: The game’s primary modes are referred to as haunts.
* CallBack: Many to ''Pinball/ScaredStiff'':
** The Dead Head family returns.
** The Spider Wheel is revamped into the Hand of Fate wheel (using the new screen display instead of a physical wheel on the backglass).
** The animation for starting Junk in the Trunk Multiball (which begins with a hand reaching out of the trunk to grab a flying ball) heavily resembles the animation for locking a ball in the coffin in ''Scared Stiff''.
** Going back even further, the description for the House Party WizardMode proclaims that "it’s time to [[Pinball/ElviraAndThePartyMonsters party like monsters]]!"
* DawsonCasting: [[invoked]] [[ConversationalTroping Mocked]] by Elvira in one possible introduction to ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'''s mode:
--> "[[ScareQuotes 'Teenager']] must mean something else in space - cuz, I mean, these guys look like... thirty-somethings. Y’know, my age."
* DoubleEntendre: Unsurprisingly, a good deal of the game's humor stems from these, ranging from the "Junk in the Trunk" to the SkillShot:
--> "I can see... you like the Back Door!"
* ExcusePlot: Elvira's got a mansion that turned out to be haunted by characters from various old B-movies. Your job is to help her drive them back into their films so that she can sell the house.
* HauntedHouse: It's right in the name of the game.
* {{Leitmotif}}: During the mode based on ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'', making shots causes a brief snippet of Torgo's theme to play.
* MatchSequence: Various digits appear and disappear as the mansion's window's lights turn on and off, eventually settling on one pair for the match.
* MythologyGag:
** [[Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate Torgo]] is depicted with goat legs on the backglass, a reference to ''Manos''' director attempting to depict him as a satyr (which was hampered by [[NoBudget the notoriously low budget]]).
** Film/{{Eegah}} is also depicted holding a can of shaving cream, referencing an infamous scene from the original film where he applies some before lapping it up.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: The titular house is haunted by various old B-movie characters, and the player is tasked with sending back to their original films.
* SkeletonKey: One of the Junk awards; it allows the player to access haunts beyond the primary six.
* SkillShot: Two of them – plunging the ball into the top 2 lanes awards 250,000 points, while getting it into the Back Door (closer to the left orbit, and thus riskier to shoot for) instead awards a million points and immediately starts a haunt.
* SnowySleighBells: The music accompanying the mode based on ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'' prominently features these.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[ConversationalTroping Pointed out]] and mocked InUniverse; Elvira doesn’t bother pretending that the "monsters" in ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' are anything but lobsters, to the point where the mode concludes with her craving lobster.
* WorldOfPun: There's a lot of puns in this game - Elvira tries to sell the house through Alternate Realty, the Junk in the Trunk locks balls, the Dead Head family includes Grandpa Bone Head and Aunt Surly, and the various game modes include Drive Me Crazy and [[Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire Phone-A-Fiend]].
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''Elvira's House of Horrors'' is a 2019 [[PhysicalPinballTables pinball table]] by Creator/{{Stern}} Pinball. It was designed by Creator/DennisNordman, with software by Lyman F. Sheats Jr and artwork by Creator/GregFreres. It acts as the third installment in an unofficial series of [[Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark Elvira]]-themed tables, following Creator/WilliamsElectronics'[[note]]under their Bally label[[/note]] ''Pinball/ElviraAndThePartyMonsters'' and ''Pinball/ScaredStiff''.
The premise is simple: Elvira is trying to sell the HauntedHouse featured in the title, but must get rid of the various characters from various [[PublicDomainFeatureFilms public domain]] horror B-movies that inhabit it beforehand. The player must help her do so while also contending with the newly-risen Dead Heads and other creatures littering the premises. Along the way, they'll rise up the ranks on the B-Restorator, charge up the Freak Fryer, and find various pieces of Junk in the Trunk.
The game is notable as the very first pinball machine to have footage filmed specifically for its display – namely, Cassandra Peterson as Elvira giving an introduction and conclusion to each of the films featured in the game's primary modes. It also pulls footage from said films for use during play, as listed below. Other distinctive features include a physical model of the house itself on the playfield (with lights in the "windows" that can light up individually) and a Trunk that can act as both part of a ramp and a lock for multiball.
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* ''Film/ABucketOfBlood''
* ''Film/AttackOfTheGiantLeeches''
* ''Beast From Haunted Cave''
* ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie''
* ''Film/{{Eegah}}''
* ''Gappa the Triphibian Monsters''
* ''Film/TheGiantGilaMonster''
* ''Film/HerculesAndTheCaptiveWomen''
* ''Film/IEatYourSkin''
* ''Film/JesseJamesMeetsFrankensteinsDaughter''
* ''Film/TheKillerShrews''
* ''Film/LadyFrankenstein''
* ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate''
* ''The Manster''
* ''Monster from a Prehistoric Planet''
* ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''
* ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians''
* ''Film/TheSatanicRitesOfDracula''
* ''Scared to Death''
* ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace''
* ''Film/TheTerror''
* ''Film/TheWaspWoman''
* ''The Werewolf of Washington''
* ''The Wild Woman of Wongo''
* ''Film/Tormented1960''
* ''Untamed Women''
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!!This game contains examples of:
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The Hand of Fate wheel is activated by losing the ball down the left outlane. However, one of the six wedges of the wheel awards an extra ball save, thus effectively negating the drain.
* CallAHitPointASmeerp: The game’s primary modes are referred to as haunts.
* CallBack: Many to ''Pinball/ScaredStiff'':
** The Dead Head family returns.
** The Spider Wheel is revamped into the Hand of Fate wheel (using the new screen display instead of a physical wheel on the backglass).
** The animation for starting Junk in the Trunk Multiball (which begins with a hand reaching out of the trunk to grab a flying ball) heavily resembles the animation for locking a ball in the coffin in ''Scared Stiff''.
** Going back even further, the description for the House Party WizardMode proclaims that "it’s time to [[Pinball/ElviraAndThePartyMonsters party like monsters]]!"
* DawsonCasting: [[invoked]] [[ConversationalTroping Mocked]] by Elvira in one possible introduction to ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'''s mode:
--> "[[ScareQuotes 'Teenager']] must mean something else in space - cuz, I mean, these guys look like... thirty-somethings. Y’know, my age."
* DoubleEntendre: Unsurprisingly, a good deal of the game's humor stems from these, ranging from the "Junk in the Trunk" to the SkillShot:
--> "I can see... you like the Back Door!"
* ExcusePlot: Elvira's got a mansion that turned out to be haunted by characters from various old B-movies. Your job is to help her drive them back into their films so that she can sell the house.
* HauntedHouse: It's right in the name of the game.
* {{Leitmotif}}: During the mode based on ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'', making shots causes a brief snippet of Torgo's theme to play.
* MatchSequence: Various digits appear and disappear as the mansion's window's lights turn on and off, eventually settling on one pair for the match.
* MythologyGag:
** [[Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate Torgo]] is depicted with goat legs on the backglass, a reference to ''Manos''' director attempting to depict him as a satyr (which was hampered by [[NoBudget the notoriously low budget]]).
** Film/{{Eegah}} is also depicted holding a can of shaving cream, referencing an infamous scene from the original film where he applies some before lapping it up.
* RefugeeFromTVLand: The titular house is haunted by various old B-movie characters, and the player is tasked with sending back to their original films.
* SkeletonKey: One of the Junk awards; it allows the player to access haunts beyond the primary six.
* SkillShot: Two of them – plunging the ball into the top 2 lanes awards 250,000 points, while getting it into the Back Door (closer to the left orbit, and thus riskier to shoot for) instead awards a million points and immediately starts a haunt.
* SnowySleighBells: The music accompanying the mode based on ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'' prominently features these.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[ConversationalTroping Pointed out]] and mocked InUniverse; Elvira doesn’t bother pretending that the "monsters" in ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' are anything but lobsters, to the point where the mode concludes with her craving lobster.
* WorldOfPun: There's a lot of puns in this game - Elvira tries to sell the house through Alternate Realty, the Junk in the Trunk locks balls, the Dead Head family includes Grandpa Bone Head and Aunt Surly, and the various game modes include Drive Me Crazy and [[Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire Phone-A-Fiend]].
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