The Spiral Hill is a large piece of iconography for the Nightmare Before Christmas which appears in the seasonal overlays of Haunted Mansion Holiday and Haunted Mansion Holiday Nightmare.
Description[]
Design[]
The Spiral Hill is a large hill shaped like a spiral that is located in Halloween Town within its graveyard and nearby what appears to be a pumpkin patch. In the film, it has the ability the unravel itself, providing a pathway.
Origins[]
The hill first appeared in artwork for Tim Burton's poem the Nightmare Before Christmas as the place where Jack Skellington seeks solitude. It serves a similar purpose in the 1993 film but also is featured in many more musical sequences, including the finale.
Appearances[]
Haunted Mansion Holiday & Haunted Mansion Holiday Nightmare[]
The spiral hill appears in the background of the changing portrait showing Jack Skellington and Zero. This portrait can be found in the Portrait Corridor in California's mansion and in the foyer of Tokyo's mansion. A portrait in the Sinister 11 corridor shows Jack and Sally kissing atop it of the spiral hill, being hung overtop the entrance to the library.
Within the graveyard sequence, a recreation of the spiral hill appears which is made out of snow, ice and pumpkins. It is first visible when exiting the attic as large snowflakes fall in-front of it, it can be seen again with the Singing Busts in-front of it.