There are monsters lurking everywhere. But while most of them hide in the shadows, that’s all going to change at this year’s Halloween Horror Nights (HHN) at Universal Studios Singapore. No matter who you are, or where you come from, you’ll be in for a jolly good scare at the 7th edition of Singapore’s premier fright fest.
Check out our experience below:
500 scare actors, five haunted houses, two scare zones, two live shows, and a pulsating, live-action round of zombie laser tag – these are all the ingredients of a theme park that’s gone dark, where ghastly ghouls roam the night, and demented souls bay for blood.
In other words, HHN is going to be freaky as hell.
Case in point: this year’s theme revolves around seven new incarnations of sins found in modern day life – Cruelty, Deception, Malice, Manipulation, Narcissism, Perversion, and Obsession – with each “sin” taking on the lives of seven characters called Sinisters; deranged demons that you’ll find based in various parts of the park, like the haunted houses.
Speaking of haunted houses, they are incredibly spooky this year. Manic thumping on walls, scare actors popping out of nowhere, and gruesome special effects are just some of the hallmarks we’ve seen in previous editions, although the house that hit closest to home was Death Mall – where an eerie reproduction of a heartland mall, complete with a cinema and grocery store, was teeming with horrifying ghosts.
Other houses to look out for include Inside The Mind; where you’ll get sucked into the psychedelic bad trip of a serial killer’s brain, with mind-altering illusions and a spasm of garish colours, as well as Hex; a shaman’s lair filled with voodoo relics and antiques, and Terrorcotta; a house that transports you all the way back to ancient China’s bloody past.
Make The Cut – a haunted house that dives into the dark and gory underbelly of the K-pop business has splendid special effects, but is quite underwhelming in terms of thrill factor. So spending your time queuing for it may not be such a great idea, especially since the scare zones – Happy Horror Days in particular, are a joy to wander through.
Instead, you should check out HHN’s latest headline event – an adrenaline-pumping zombie laser tag experience that pits you against ravaging zombies that run after you (yes, they actually run, not like those sorry excuses you’ll find in The Walking Dead). We do foresee the queues being really long for this though, so do prepare for a really long wait.
Overall, HHN is still an impressively frightening affair. The costumes are great and so are the effects and makeup. It still doesn’t beat the local edition two years ago, where zombies took over an HDB flat, but it comes pretty close.
So if you’d like to scare yourself silly this year, Halloween Horror Nights is running from September 29 to October 29 for 14 nights across five weekends. Tickets start from $58 and are available via www.halloweenhorrornights.com.sg.
For more information, visit www.halloweenhorrornights.com.sg.
Images: NYLON/Resorts World Sentosa
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