{"id":96527,"date":"2026-10-30T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96527"},"modified":"2026-10-30T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:08:00","slug":"screams-to-scandals-how-hong-kongs-ocean-park-has-spooked-halloween-guests-for-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=96527","title":{"rendered":"Screams to scandals: how Hong Kong\u2019s Ocean Park has spooked Halloween guests for 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/29\/977ce5b4-e61d-400f-ba29-470a3b44e9e3_f818673d.jpg?itok=8hgIn-4X&amp;v=1793261990\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When Ocean Park launched its Halloween celebrations in 2001, pumpkins, witches and vampires helped turn a visit to the theme park into a seasonal fright night. Twenty-five years later, haunted houses drawing on Hong Kong ghost stories share this year\u2019s programme with family activities, live performances and a dark-fantasy collaboration with a pop star.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The history of Halloween at Ocean Park is not simply a timeline of increasingly bigger productions and more elaborate effects. It is also a story of changing tastes, local creative talent and, at times, tragedy and controversy that have tested both how to frighten an audience and where to draw the line.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to Eva Au Yeung, Ocean Park\u2019s events and entertainment director, the original objective of launching the Halloween festival \u2013 then known as the Halloween Bash \u2013 was practical: to give visitors something fresh to return for, particularly in October, traditionally a quiet month after the summer holidays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3372571\/screams-scandals-how-hong-kongs-ocean-park-has-spooked-halloween-guests-25-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ocean Park launched its Halloween celebrations in 2001, pumpkins, witches and vampires helped turn a visit to the theme park into a seasonal fright&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[138,2390,3569,5010,9567,1677,32274,20334,16075,59],"class_list":["post-96527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-guests","tag-halloween","tag-hong","tag-kongs","tag-ocean","tag-park","tag-scandals","tag-screams","tag-spooked","tag-years","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}