UK Machine Record
Stern · 2019 · at 2 UK venues.
Elvira's House of Horrors is one of the more substantial modern horror machines, and one of the best examples of Stern leaning into a theme rather than simply putting a licence on the backglass. Designed by Dennis Nordman, the game turns Elvira's fictional haunted house into a collection of rooms, monsters and increasingly dangerous objectives.
The layout is packed with things to shoot, but the real game is about progressing through the house and building towards the larger modes. The upper playfield and interactive features give it plenty of physical character without overwhelming the main game.
It is not the easiest Stern to find in the UK, which makes a location game particularly valuable. Explore the house properly. The obvious shots aren't always the ones worth the most.
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Silverball guide · Elvira's House of Horrors · written on a Premium
Drain or time out during a Haunt and you cannot play it again until They Came From Space, which needs six Haunts started. Every other failure on this machine is graded and pays you something. That one is not.
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The House Entrance (center ramp / orbit) starts 45-second Haunts (movie modes). Haunts can be stacked with multiballs.
After completing a mode, hit both ramps to start a hurry-up worth 2x the points from the mode. Collect at the house.
House modes are on a timer that resets to 15s after each mode shot. You can play modes a while, always increasing the mode shot value.
Main modes and side modes (like happy hour) are on a timer, and hitting a shot usually resets the timer back to a minimum of 15s.
Light multipliers on the inlane by completing left and right standup banks.
Light the wheel at the left outlane by finishing the right standup targets.
Shoot the Garage (between the left ramp and the House) to light and collect locks for Wild Women, Add-A-Zombie and Attic Attack multiballs.
House Party Multiball is qualified after the third haunt. Every shot is lit for a jackpot, and super jackpot is collected at the house.
Shoot the standup targets on the left (labelled 36-24-36) to light the Trunk to lock a ball for Junk in the Trunk multiball.
Wheel of Fate awards "Multiball Extensions" - during that Multiball, once down to one ball, two more balls are added & Multiball continues.
Gappa Angry qualifies via switches, then up to six rounds of locking balls, followed by a multiball with variable shots and balls in play.
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Close-ups of the Elvira's House of Horrors playfield, with our note on what each one is showing you.
The Junk in the Trunk toy, and the targets that open it.
Jumpin' Gar-Goil targets on the mansion stairs.
Mode inserts: Freak Fryer, Scream Test, Dance Fever.
The for-sale sign on the side of the mansion.
Photographs via the Internet Pinball Database. The captions are ours.
How Elvira's House of Horrors was sold to operators — Stern, 2019. The back is the feature list the manufacturer led with, which is a fair record of what the machine was meant to be famous for.
Flyer scan via the Internet Pinball Database. The artwork is Stern’s.
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