ChewyJas - Singapore Lifestyle Blogger : Sentosa Spooktacular 2014

Sentosa Spooktacular is back this Halloween with a more immersive and integrated experience for visitors as the boundaries of the once Fort Siloso and the new haunted village Laddaland are blurred. This is the result of the successful partnership between Sentosa Leisure Management Pte Ltd and Thai film production studio, GMM Tai Hub Co. Ltd (GTH). Both organisations are expert in delivery the experience of being enveloped in a bone-chilling walkthrough for horror fans with their expertise in destination and production capabilities.

Forget about Fort Siloso as this Halloween, all 40,000 square metres of Fort Siloso are being transformed into a haunted residential zone known as Laddaland which is based on GTH's well received movie of the same name. We are now getting ready to explore this new neighborhood.

Gather your courage and explore the street of Laddaland, where every house is cursed and haunted with wondering spirits lurking around to claim new souls to join them.

This must be the reason why we smile so happily in the photo. It's still broad daylight and we are still feeling fresh and excited. Anyway, this is just the beginning. Wait till it's night time, and things will be different.

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The Laddaland movie is about a family of four who abandoned their old lives and moved here, ready to settle down in a beautiful home they call their own. All is well until they found out about the ruthless murder of a Burmese maid in their neighbour's house. Savagely beaten, her mangled body is found stuffed inside the refrigerator. A wrongful death results in a vengeful soul. Even the innocent ones are not spared from strange sightings and mournful cries.

Headless ghost wondering around, scaring us who are queuing. They may even mingle among as one of us in the queue, so always keep a watch out. Who knows you might just turn back and come face to face with a wondering ghost and not your friends! We got frighten and screamed when one of the ghost crawl in to our queue. We didn't even know he was there!

TRAIL 1 - COUNTDOWN

"4...3...2...1...Happy New year!" Join 3 friends - Jack, Bee and Pam, as they planned to celebrate the start of a new year in style. Lose yourself in their excitement as they wait eagerly for a drug ddealer to drop some good stuff at their apartment. The climax draws near when Jesus show up, shares the loot, and proves to be the life of the party. However, there is just something about him that you cannot seem to put a finger on. A game master always has a game plan. Can you play the game by his rules, or will that be too much for you to handle?

Jessie, Shu Qing, Riah and I while waiting. Thankfully, Riah brought a fan, it was really hot down there.

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We entered the dark trail with a bouncer welcoming us and some dancers dancing to loud music playing in the background. "You spin my head right round, right round, when you go down, when you go down down..." They looked really happy and enjoying themselves.

In this trail we were given a paper type of 3D illusion glasses for us to view the 3D effects created. Was really fascinated by the skulls passageway. After putting on the glasses, I see the skulls floating out of the wall, the spiral bridge spinning, etc. It's like battling hallucination while struggling to find the way out this crazy house. No wonder in the beginning, they played that "You spin my head right round" song. I was feeling giddy but there's no stopping halfway, this trail is long and we have to pass through cracks in walls, bend down to pass through those colorful ropes before we are finally out.

TRAIL 2 - ALONE

You may think it's cute to have Siamese twins as next door neighbours. Conjoined at the stomach from birth, Pim and Ploy are Siamese twin sisters bounded skin-to-skin, organ-to-organ, for life. They even shared the same affection for a boy named Vee but Vee only had eyes for Pim. Years laterm Vee is seen happily married to Pim, who had survived the operation which separated her from Ploy, the same operation which left her sister dead. Ploy is not one to leave peacefully. Back with a vengeance, she will make sure her sister regrets ever to be separated from her.

This is the scariest trail of all. You can tell just from the outside. Look at those windows, it does seems like some ghostly images are looking down through the windows, waiting for us to enter.

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The props used are so real, it's sometimes hard to differentiate whether it's human with make-up or just props. Every steps we take are with fear.

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We were made to walk through SEWAGES! :O Can you imagine how creepy that is in the dark?

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Do not look over your shoulder, for you are never quite alone.

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I remember this scene because I was frighten by the loud chopping sound. It was really gross when you look closely.

Along the trail, we met Mr Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, Senior Director of International Business department, GTH Movie Director and producer for GTH's films. Had a good chat and before he left to catch up with his group, we managed to take this precious group photo with him! :D

TRAIL 3 - THE SWIMMERS

Perth is the school's star swimming athlete. However, the swimming pool is no longer safe after a fetal accident that killed his long-time crush. It is now haunted with ghosts of dead swimmers.

This is the shortest trail. This is very much like the scene in the actual movie itself. I've watched the movie in August (Read movie review of The Swimmer's post here)

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Make your way through this. You can't see what's in front and can't even walk straight.

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The feeling that you are trapped under the swimming pool.

We sweat, we screamed and we survived Sentosa Spooktacular 2014! Cheers to that. Compared to Sentosa Spooktacular 2013 (Read post here), this year there's fewer trails but it's longer at each trail. There's a lot of effort being put in to design all the trails and haunted houses.