Got your Halloween costumes yet? Halloween isn’t cancelled, even though the annual Halloween Horror Nights is (no thanks to the pandemic). However, Universal Studios Singapore is still rolling out alternative Halloween events with safety measures in place, along with other venues such as the ArtScience Museum and indie cinema The Projector.
Here’s where to celebrate Halloween 2020 in Singapore!
Halloween Fun for Everyone
The local gates of Halloween Horror Nights may be closed this year, but that doesn't mean there can't be Halloween Fun For Everyone!
This October, put on your favourite costume and enjoy trick-or-treating around Universal Studios Singapore. Meet Illumination’s Minion Monsters as they make their return at Minion Monsters Tricky Treats!
Next, embark on the Trail of Treats to collect candies, gummies and chocolates from Candy Ambassadors, and pull out your phones for selfies with your favourite characters dressed in their Halloween best. These include Gru and his family from Despicable Me, the DreamWorks cast of Madagascar and Puss In Boots, your Sesame Street friends, classic Universal Monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, plus more!
That’s not all – take a photo in your costume, hashtag #HalloweenFunatRWS, tag and follow @RWSentosa and you may just win a special prize!
ArtScience on Scream
It’s been 100 years since the release of the first horror film ever made, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. To mark this special occasion, ArtScience on Screen is transforming into a spooktastic event with a lineup of onsite and online programmes from October 10 to November 6. Revisit the old-but-gold horror film in its full restored glory at the ArtScience Museum, as well as the specially curated series of David Lynch's nightmarish short films.
If you’re tuning in from home, local musician and producer Fauxe channels the ghoulish energies of Caligari into a livestream musical séance of sorts as part of the ArtScience Late at Home presentation. Join in for a spooky virtual tour of some of the museum’s biggest past exhibitions and check out the October Screen Zine that unites five local illustrators reimagining Caligari as local folklore.
S.E.A. Aquarium’s Deep Boo Sea
S.E.A. Aquarium is celebrating Halloween too with Deep BOO Sea, where you'll come face-to-face with some of nature's scariest-looking marine animals such as the Japanese warbonnet, which has a prominent native Indian headdress-like cirri on top of its head, and the wolf eel, which is known for its voracious appetite. Learn about what makes these marine creatures amazing and unique!
There are also other activities such as a treasure photo hunt where you seek the lost pearls that are hidden within five habitats in the aquarium. For every riddle solved and pearl found, you stand a chance to win a mystery gift! And if you come in your creepiest costume, you’ll stand to win prizes like one-day tickets and special passes worth up to SG$222 each week!
Halloween at The Projector
The Projector is bringing its annual screamfest to both its physical theatre as well as its online streaming platform. Get ready your popcorn for What We Do In The Shadows, screened onsite on October 23 and 31. It follows three vampires struggling to cope with the complexities of modern life in New York.
And if you're looking to stay in and turn your home into a spookfest, tune into online exclusives such as Extra Ordinary, which sees a driving instructor using her supernatural talents to save a girl from a Satanic pact, and A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, which features a skateboarding vampire who preys on men that disrespects women in an Iranian city.
Haunted Old Changi Hospital Night Walk
This walking tour by Explorer SG will take you around (note: not in) the Old Changi Hospital, shining a torchlight on the history of the abandoned hospital, and how it got its reputation as one of the spookiest places in Singapore.
A hot spot for ghostbusting activities, the grounds of Old Changi Hospital is said to be haunted by the restless souls of those who were tortured to death or executed by the Japanese during World War II, when it was used by the Kempeitai (Japanese military police) to hold more than 50,000 Allied prisoners-of-war.
Do note that participants are on a first-come-first-served basis, and there's a waitlist for available slots. Check out its Meetup page for further information!