As if Universal Studios Hollywood wasn’t great enough, we keep getting new reasons to visit the amazing theme park, again, and again.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

“The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™” has become even more magical with the all-new “The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle™,” a spectacular light projection experience against the backdrop of Hogwarts™ School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

As night falls on Hogsmeade village, “The Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts Castle” will shine brightly with an awe-inspiring spectacle that showcases the four houses of Hogwarts: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin that culminates with awesome beams of lights that fan into the night sky.
The colorful state-of-the-art light display and special effects projection, designed to dance across the stunning Hogwarts castle, will be accompanied by a special musical arrangement created by Academy Award-winning composer John Williams based on his original scores composed for the film series. The musical arrangement that will emanate in a surround sound environment was conducted by prolific arranger William Ross and recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra in London.

The Shining

Here is Jack! Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, based on the novel by Stephen King, will come to life for the first time in new mazes at the next “Halloween Horror Nights” at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort, starting this September.

““The Shining” maze at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights will provide guests with a unique opportunity to relive some of the film’s most iconic, and sinister, moments. While venturing through the eerie Overlook Hotel, guests will be thrust into the hotel’s tragic history of murder and madness, bearing witness to caretaker Jack Torrance’s spiraling descent into insanity. Nightmarish visions will come to life in this macabre maze, overwhelming guests with the “shine” of the murderous, ghostly entities that lurk around every turn – all while trying to escape the wrath of Jack Torrance as he violently succumbs to the hotel’s paranormal forces.”

 

Jackie Cruz

The “Orange is the New Black” Latina actress visited Universal Studios Hollywood on Monday, May 22.

Photo Credit: Ron Mateo/Universal Studios Hollywood