Haunted House Sound Film Archive

Sound and Film Archive

The Haunted House originally had eight pieces of music, which played throughout your journey.

The Graveyard queue area was the first piece of music to be heard and was known as ‘Gloomy Wood; its real title is 'The Ghoulish Garden'. The queue then led you through the Graveyard and up the stairs into the house. As you stepped up into the entrance you were greeted with the second piece of music called ‘The Entrance Hall’. This piece of music played throughout the queue area inside the ride and in the ride station. However in the drawing room another piece of music played over the top of the entrance music, this was called ‘The Drawing Room’ affectionately known as the dolls house music. This also had an additional secondary piece of music that intertwined the 'Drawing Room' music. This piece was called ‘Emily Alton’ after the ghostly girl that would appear within the dolls house. This singing accompanied her apparition has she played with her cat in the model house.

The next change of music occurred when the rider entered Trommels Tunnel, this piece of music was called 'The Tunnel of Doom' and was played through until the rider came up against the large menacing eye of the giant it was here that the music had another change this time it changed to 'The Giants Lair' the car at this point would slow down and you would pass through the giants crushing fingers and accompanying lightening. The music again changed when the rider entered the eerie garden. This piece of music was called the ‘Ghoulish Garden’ and was a repeat of the music within the cemetery queue area. The beckoning undertaker signaled the change again; the pace picks up when you meet the lunatic loose in the garden and the car sped up and ‘The Final Chase’ music began.

The last piece of music occurred when the car pulled into the exit station This piece of music is called ‘The Escape' and is more up beat and triumphant, to give the rider a sense of accomplishment and bravery, after all they had of course survived the Haunted House.

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Sound Archive from the Haunted House Click the links to hear the archive sounds/music		Film Archive from the Haunted House Click the links to watch the archive films
	Ghost Host Introductory spooky speech, a great piece of history!		1992 Haunted House Advert Advert to promote the introduction of the Haunted House to the park A fantastic piece of archive materials Special thanks to Matthew Wells
	Emily Alton This piece of music is copied from VHS and is of poor quality and contains background noise. Hopefully it will help remind people of the good old days.		1994 Alton Towers Storybook Advert Showing the Peter Rabbit Ice Show, Haunted House, Runaway Mine Train, Nemesis and Toyland Tours.
	Sir Henry Alton Unfortunately this seems to be the only surviving piece of vocal		1992 Haunted House Promo Very rare promo showing the Haunted House before opening day. This is the original trailer for the house.
	Demons in the Dining Room This sound effect is courtesy of DRUK		Emily Alton Full Version of Emily Alton playing in the Dolls House. This Video footage has no sound
	Phantom Jelly Fish This sound effect is courtesy of DRUK		Sir Henry Alton A Clip show Sir Henry in action amongst the flames of his fire.
	Garden Witch This sound effect is courtesy of DRUK		Sir Henry Alton in The Dolls House There is no sound with this film but it is a great piece of archive footage. Instead of Emily playing in the Dolls house we are treated to Sir Henry Altons Flaming Head.
	Faces in the walled garden This sound effect is courtesy of DRUK		Haunted House Home Movie Showing internal Queue area. Note how dark the room used to be!
	Skeleton Photograph This sound effect is courtesy of DRUK		Lift Music The Haunted House Drawing Room Music Played within the lift of the Alton Towers Hotel
	Last Rider Dragon This sound effect is courtesy of DRUK		Gloomy Wood Cemetery Home movie footage showing the grave yard queue line, set to the original music played in this area.
	Are you scared of Spiders? A long lost spooky sound effect used within the hall of spiders. This effect has since made a come back, but who knows for how long!		Haunted House The Movie This piece of footage replaces the Virtual Tour from the old Haunted House Site. Combination of photos and film footage.
	Ghoulish Garden This piece of music is played both inside and outside of the ride First it can be heard in Gloomy Wood and then in the Ghoulish Garden this is to add continuity to the ride and make the rider believe that they had left the confines of the house. Originally it was believed that the inside music was different to that played outside, however the only difference known is that of the volume. Inside the sound is clearer due to the confined space/ acoustics'.		Ghost of Staffordshire Richard Felix of Most Haunted Fame goes ghost hunting in Staffordshire and calls in to see the haunted house at Alton Towers. This DVD is available to buy from HMV
	The Entrance Hall This piece of music was very somber and intimidating Especially for the first time rider.		If you have any Haunted House footage that you would like to add to this site then please contact me through my contacts page.
	The Drawing Room Eerie piece of music that is one of the most memorable track from the Haunted House
	The Tunnel of Doom The old fairground illusion of disorientation the tunnel spins and the rider fells like they are traveling upside down perfectly accompanied by this track.
	The Giant's Lair Slow methodical piece large drums and clashes of symbols
	The Final Chase The fastest track of the group, the car would speed up to escape the roaming demons and ghosts in the garden area.
	Escape! Played as the car entered the ride station. Exit