Universal

22nd October 2014 – Universal Studios, Singapore

Anyone that knows me, will be fully aware of how bad of a reaction I have when it comes to being scared/jumped out on. So obviously the sane thing to do, being me, would be go to a Halloween horror night… Right?

Before even leaving England we’d both joked about the idea of universal studios for Halloween. But when we finally booking our transport to Singapore last week we stopped just toying with the idea and booked it.

In Singapore the universal studios is on the other island called Sentosa, which is basically full of theme parks and such things. You can either get the sky train over, the monorail or walk it on the boardwalk, and we chose the latter.

Our first stop on island was to get food, and seems as this was our treat of the trip we went to a pancake house where you make the pancakes yourself on a hot surface attached to the table. (I know this is off topic from the horror theme of the post but it was too exciting not to include).

Still buzzing from the sugar rush the pancakes provided we made our way into universal. The place was crazy, there was thousand of excited teens wearing flashing devil horns, flashing lights everywhere, a red eerie mist and extremely loud and fun music playing. As you got in you came across the ‘Demontator’ who was the star of the ‘Demoncracy’ show. He was chained up and snarling, a pretty scary sight!

We thought the night would consist of lots of haunted houses, which it partly did. We went into three of them, all with different themes such as ‘Jin’s revenge’ which was a haunted school, and one which was a lab gone wrong. The guys in front of us in Jin’s revenge were hysterical, in the scared and funny way! One got so scared he backed me right into wall as he tried to get away, which made it a bit more comical – to my relief!

To make my heart rate that bit faster, they also had actors hiding throughout the park. My reactions did cause me to get chased a few times, one where I ran in circles to get away. I’m sure if you’re picturing this, you can see the funny side however at the time I did not. It was like living in constant fear, knowing when you get off one thing having just been scared, something’s lurking in the dark to scare you all over again. Though I will admit it, that was definitely part of the fun. And full credit to universals choice in actors, you picked a terrifying bunch!

However not only were there haunted houses but also rides open! We got to ride the Transformers ride (AMAZING, my love for Bumblebee has only grown as a result), the Mummy roller coaster, the Jurassic park canopy ride, the Shrek outdoor roller coaster, the Madagascar boat ride and we watched the 4D Shrek show! Money well spent.

To top all of the fun off we saw a scary circus show. It was hosted by an evil clown and he and his circus gang made people (fellow actors) perform to be in his show! In bits it got a bit too much, like when a man put a hook through his nose and out of his mouth, but it was a great show with some amazing dancers!

Big thanks to my hand holder for the entire night, Elise Bigley.