China's first 'haunted house' spooks this Halloween

Halloween is coming alive in China's financial capital through one of the city's first haunted houses -- the Shanghai Nightmare.A crumbling 107-year-old warehouse along Shanghai's Suzhou Creek has been converted into a haunted house for the occasion by organisers keen to bring the traditions of Halloween to China. Featuring more than 13 different chambers filled with grim and gore, visitors can expect a full-fledged house of horror with special lights and sound effects, complete with ghosts and goblins attacking visitors on every unexpected turn.Without giving too much of the fright surprise away, organisers said Shanghai Nightmare has darkened alleyways, eerie rooms, a mirrored forest walk and other terrifying experiences to scare visitors. Shanghai Nightmare is the creation of 26-year-old American Chinese Gan Quan and his Shanghai native girlfriend, Xu Jiali.The duo quit their jobs at Intel to work full-time on this project and they said they had visited many different haunted houses last year in the United States to collect ideas.Gan and Xu said they combined both their engineering and art backgrounds to create the haunted house. Though they did not want to reveal their monetary investment in the project, they said it took them almost a year to set up the operation with the help of a local events company.Shanghai Nightmare opened on September 25 and will scare visitors till Halloween on October 31.