It seems to me that WDW's Haunted Mansion is more Rolly Crump/Claud Coats-like and Disneyland seems more Marc Davis. WDW is so cool, because it starts off small and rather dark, like just a normally haunted tour through the portrait hallway and library. Then you progress up the staircase and into the corridor of doors, where you know you must be headed someplace interesting. Then you see the ballroom, then enter the attic which serves as sort of the climax for the ride where you narrowly escape a deranged bride. After that, you decend into the graveyard, and up into the mosuleum where you are beckoned to "hurry ba-ack".
Disneyland's misses the entire first part of the ride and just jumps to the corridor of doors. I believe that the staircase, library, mucic room, and portrait hallway (in ride) are important because they sort of do a better job setting the tone.
Oh yes, my favorite scene is the attic because it is very detailed, I love the music in there combined with the morbid vows of Constance. It also contains a lot to see- transforming portraits, a shadow playing a piano, bats, and a bride. It's also scary because you know that this is the place you saw up above you (well, in the story, not actually in the real ride world) when you were in the stretching room. A really cool scene.
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