When Candlelight illuminates Haw Par Villa this Halloween, it’ll be time to treat yourself to a night of frightfully spectacular music as candles flicker, shadows linger, and a string quartet makes their instruments screech, scratch and scream melodically through the open-air experience.
Before or after the haunting Halloween special, audiences can step into Hell’s Museum and the eye-opening 10 Courts of Hell because there’s nothing quite like a trip into the afterlife to really get your spine tingling and your blood pulsing on Halloween.
As audiences gather at the brilliantly lit Former Villa area for the concert, Vocalise String Quartet will perform a selection of sinister-sounding songs. From Camille Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre to In The Hall Of The Mountain King by Edvard Grieg and Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Candlelight will howl its way through history’s most famous musical works of terror.
Spooky theme songs from film and TV will also be performed at the gates to hell with the likes of Stranger Things, The Addams Family, Beetlejuice, Psycho and Ghostbusters all being transformed in the light of hundreds of candles. And, there can’t be Halloween without renditions of Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, This Is Halloween from The Nightmare Before Christmas, and John Carpenter’s Halloween. 
Tickets to Candlelight at Haw Par Villa include entry into Hell’s Museum, a 3,800 sqm exhibition exploring how various cultures and civilisations represented the concepts of sin, punishment and the afterlife. It will be open until midnight on the night of the Candlelight Halloween performance so that concertgoers can experience the depths of hell on the same evening; however, audiences are also able to visit on another day as the ticket will be valid until 31 December 2022. Tickets to enter Hell’s Museum typically cost $18.
Candlelight Halloween: A Chilling Evening at Haw Par Villa with Hell’s Museum Experience takes place outdoors on Saturday 29 October at 9pm. Unfortunately, stools, chairs and umbrellas are strictly not allowed at the venue and guests are required to bring their own mats for seating (or purchase one to use on-site).