Ocean Park Halloween Fest 2026 runs September 5 through November 1, and the park has revealed the full lineup. This year’s edition, themed The Grave Rave, is built around four haunted houses, led by Under the Castle, the original haunted house created and creatively directed by Jackson Wang at The Summit. Around the houses, the park has doubled its roving ghost cast and added a full program of stage shows, street performances, and family activities. Here is the complete lineup, how the event works, and what tickets cost.
The Grave Rave: The 2026 Theme
Ocean Park is theming its 2026 Halloween Fest as The Grave Rave, with the tagline “Rave to the Grave, Your Fate is Sealed.” The park describes it as a high-energy party built around a sensory experience of fear, mixing the haunted houses with music, cosplay, and dance across the grounds. The roving cast is a big part of that: Ocean Park says its roving performers have doubled by 100 percent this year, to more than 120 costumed spectres stationed through the park for photos.
The Four Haunted Houses
Ocean Park is running four ticketed haunted houses in 2026, three of them with a title sponsor. That is down from the six houses the event ran in both 2024 and 2025. This year the Under the Castle house carries a larger zone, and the roving cast has doubled.
- FWD Insurance Presents: Under the Castle Haunted Experience is the marquee house, built from Jackson Wang’s original fantasy IP Under the Castle at The Summit. A sinister castle sits atop the hill with an eerie green glow, and the walkthrough moves through mirror reflections, the living dead, and a “crystal curse” that traps guests in a looping nightmare.
- AEON Card Presents: Voodoo Boo Terror Park takes over The Waterfront. Guests put on 3D glasses to enter a distorted spectral world after the mischievous character Voodoo Boo triggers a park-wide power outage, and restoring the lights is the goal.
- Orion Beer Presents: Troublesome Night 8 is based on the classic Hong Kong horror film Troublesome Night. It runs through abandoned villages, a “woman in red” crime scene, and coffin altars, with a medium guiding the way.
- Forbidden Asylum reopens a long-sealed psychiatric hospital after a historic mass disappearance. Guests wear bone-conduction headphones to pick up supernatural frequencies as they move toward the innermost restricted zone.
Entry to the houses and the other designated haunted experiences requires a Halloween Haunted Combo Ticket, which is not included with general admission.
Under the Castle: The Jackson Wang Zone
The Under the Castle house sits at the center of its zone this year, the first time Jackson Wang’s IP has come to Ocean Park. Beyond the main walkthrough, the zone includes the Under the Castle SnapGenie Spot, an AI photo booth that generates a fantasy backdrop, an Into the Mirror levitation photo spot, and the Phantom Lounge, a private dance floor where a mysterious host makes an appearance. It also holds a dark ride, Bumper Blaster, which sends bumper cars through a shadowy green light to crash into roaming ghosts, plus a Nightmare Game Booth with Hong Kong-exclusive Under the Castle prizes. Limited-edition versions of the characters Pumpkie and Spookie debut at the Fest. Our full report on the collaboration covers how Jackson Wang came to build the house.
Shows and Street Experiences
The performance lineup is the other half of the event. The main nightly show is Trip.com Presents: OPPA Scaremonies, in which eight performers form a “Demoon King” group with OPPA dances and girl-group covers across five shows a night. Ocean Park is also staging what it calls Hong Kong’s largest Halloween cosplay event, the Ghoulish Cosplay Party, with an outfit contest to crown a Ghost King and Queen and DJ sets spanning Canton-pop, J-pop, and K-pop.
Elsewhere in the park, the Hong Kong Paranormal Barrier is a walk into a parallel dimension of local urban legends, with paper dolls, the Black and White Impermanence, Meng Po, and a Taoist priest. Other roaming acts include the Sway Pole Spectacle on stilts, the Diva Paper Doll Reviving Night supported by ELEMENTS, the Under the Castle Gothic Ball, the Fright Spark Sliders acrobatic zombies, the Asylum Forbidden Stage, the Skelebration Fiesta that turns into a skeleton parade at night, and a roaming Spooky Live Band. After dark, the Gala of Lights: Let in the Dark closes the night with large-scale light projections, a water curtain, and dancing fountains.
Family and Daytime Programming
Ocean Park keeps a family lane running alongside the scares. The Bulu Boo Trick-or-Treat Party has children play mini-games with a friendly pumpkin ambassador to win candy, and the Trick or Roll Game is a hand-eye challenge rolling the Bulu ball to a finish line. The park’s Ocean Express train also gets a Horror-thrill overlay, with flickering lights and shadowy figures outside the windows. The daytime-into-night structure is part of what makes the event work for mixed-age groups.
How the Event Works
The seasonal overlay runs the full two months, but the haunted houses only operate on select “day-and-night” event dates. In 2025 there were 13 of them, running from October 10 through the November 2 finale, when the park stayed open from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Ocean Park has not yet published the specific 2026 house dates. Two things shape any trip: the houses take both an event date and a Combo Ticket, and they are not part of general admission. Plan around those and the rest falls into place.
Tickets: How the Pricing Works
Ocean Park has not posted 2026 ticket prices yet. As a reference point, here is how 2025 priced out:
- Trio Combo Tickets were the core haunted-house product, two bundles of three houses each (The Dark Spirits Trio and The Lost Souls Trio), at HK$238 per combo on off-peak weekends and HK$280 on peak dates, with each house accessible once per combo.
- Single haunted house entry was HK$130.
- General admission ran HK$457 adult and HK$229 child under the park’s Autumn Special Promotion, with standard gate pricing at HK$538 and HK$269.
- Halloween Ocean FasTrack, the paid line-skip add-on, came in Standard (seven priority accesses) and Pro (all-access) tiers.
- Ocean Park members took 10 percent off Trio Combos, and annual members got an exclusive HK$100 early-access day on the first event date.
From Halloween Bash to Halloween Fest: 25 Years of Hong Kong Halloween
Ocean Park did not just adopt theme-park Halloween in this part of the world, it pioneered it. The event debuted in October 2001 as the Halloween Bash, billed as the first Halloween event at any theme park in Southeast Asia, with an investment reported above $15 million. That first season ran just two weekends with four haunted attractions and three flagship mascots, the Pumpkin King, the Witty Witch, and Count Dracula, and drew more than 150,000 visitors. Ocean Park executive Paul Pei has recounted coining the event’s Cantonese name, “哈囉喂” (Ha Lo Wai).
The Bash grew fast. Designers and directors from the Western haunt industry, including Todd Hougland, Alan Ostrander of AEO Studios, and haunted attraction director Joel Talacko, shaped the event as it expanded from four houses to seven in 2007, eight in 2008, and nine in 2009, with the performer corps growing from around 80 to hundreds per night, eventually recruiting roughly 100 performers a night from the Philippines. In its biggest historical years the Bash drew attendance reported around half a million guests, figures from the mid-2000s through the 2010s that the park has not updated with recent Halloween-specific numbers.
In 2013 the event rebranded to Halloween Fest and became an all-day-and-night festival, with roughly ten attraction experiences carrying dual day and night concepts, a dozen stage shows, and some 700 performers. It is consistently described as the largest Halloween event in Asia, and Hong Kong’s standing as the Halloween capital of Asia is a reputation the event helped build, with mainland Chinese parks adding Halloween to their calendars in its wake. The 2024 edition, “Horrors of the Hidden City,” turned a Kowloon Walled City concept into six haunted houses, and 2025’s “Unbox the Cursed Collection” ran a blind-box theme across six more, showing the event still mines whatever Hong Kong is currently obsessed with.
For the full origin story, the designers, the growth years, and how the event changed Asian theme-park seasons, see our companion history at Seasonal Entertainment Source.
Ocean Park has not yet posted 2026 ticket prices or the specific October dates the houses will run. Those are expected closer to opening, and this guide will be updated when they land. Full details and ticketing will post to the park’s Halloween Fest 2026 page.
