Haw Par Villa is Singapore’s last remaining Asian cultural park, built in 1937 by the Tiger Balm brothers and infamous for its “Ten Courts of Hell” dioramas, which visualise the Chinese afterlife as a place of constant judgment and punishment. Now facing an indefinite partial closure for maintenance from December 2025, with large parts of the park shut until further notice, the site embodies how a strange, didactic piece of local heritage is becoming precarious for the next generation. In a city where youth expression is tightly negotiated, this editorial follows a lone figure as he moves through Haw Par Villa’s layers of hell as if through a moral surveillance machine. Model: Russell Su, Singapore, Shot on film