Halloween is a holiday to sort the wheat from the chaff, or the dead from the half-dead, and if you're a terror junkie, the type of person who gets off to watching werewolf movies under the full moon, or used to steal your sibling's nightlight because you enjoy listening to other people cry, this list is definitely for you. Whether you fantasize about the most decrepit of haunted houses or want to scare yourself silly with VR, here are some of Shanghai Happy Valley's best places to find your next nightmare.
Walking Dead (VR)
Recommendation rating ★★★★★
This Happy Valley attraction is booked out days in advance and for good reason. Pursuit by zombie never felt so terrifying and you will be mightily relieved when the time comes to remove the VR headset and wipe streams of sweat from your forehead. But, be warned, no matter how many times you tell yourself it was only virtual reality things may never be the same again.
Inner Senses
Horror Rating ★★★★
Night hangs over every cobwebbed corner of this lurid venue. You may enter the darkness alone but something will follow you. You will hear heavy footsteps and sense breathing. As you blindly feel your way towards an escape you will be faced with a choice; embrace fear or flee?
The Eye of Horror (VR)
High-tech rating ★★★★
Imagine yourself trapped in a wheelchair with an evil force guiding your powerless body into an unknowable darkness. Keep your eyes fixed straight ahead. If you don’t, it might just be the last thing you do on this earth.
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| At The Eye of Horror, something follows you. [Photo/Wechat: Sheshanlvyou] |
Lin’s old family mansion at No 37 Shanghai Bund
Horror rating ★★★★★
Few dare to enter the old Lin family mansion. Recent tenants have fallen under a curse so deranged that suicide seemed a blessing to quell their wantonly twisted lives. Rumor has it the spell was cast over a century ago by a vengeful bride who died along with her child and has rested uneasily ever since.
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| Only the brave dare enter the old Lin mansion. [Photo/Wechat: Sheshanlvyou] |
No 14 Mortuary
Horror Rating ★★★★★
This is no ordinary mortuary. Inside No 14 lurks a cousin of Frankenstein, a sick quack of a doctor whose pastimes include brutalizing bodies, nibbling human flesh, and savoring the scent of burnt skin. The bold few who make it past the gangrenous gatekeeper will find themselves lost in a room scattered with bodies and accosted by the shrill wailing of the nearly dead.
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At No 14 Mortuary Corpse bodies struggle to escape coffins. [Photo/Wechat: Sheshanlvyou] |
The Biochemical Train
Horror rating ★★★★★
When disaster struck a train transporting the apparatus of a clandestine biochemical program, passengers morphed into the most unthinkable of forms. Zombies. Massive insects. Unidentified savage beasts. Enter the train at your own peril. You best hope the only things you find onboard are dead bodies.
Misty Boarding School
Supernatural rating ★★★★★
Students began to panic after a girl threw herself from the schoolhouse roof. A curse soon descended upon the boarding school claiming young girls one-by-one. All that remains is a thick mist that obscures all human senses.
Abandoned Mine
Adventure rating ★★★★
The source of the bafflingly bizarre events that have been plaguing locals was only recently revealed; the local mine. Inside this twisting maze of cold rock and emptiness is a tomb that has been discovered. Those who make it out of the mine alive are never quite the same again.
Torture Prison
Thrill rating ★★★★★
This dingy, rat infested, hell hole of a prison is run a psychopathic warden with a penchant for torture. His favorite specimens are the miserable inmates whose wretched lives he relishes plunging into a void of abject misery and pain. Careful! Or you, too, might become an inmate.
Abandoned Hotel
Bloodiness rating ★★★★★
The remote and isolated feeling one has wandering the tatty rooms of this abandoned hotel is entirely an illusion. Rest assured, every step, gesture, and movement you make is being watched. This legendary haunted hotel is guaranteed to give the bravest of folks nightmares.
