Park ride will be the death of you

Now this sounds brilliant. Chatty auteur Eli Roth is to design a theme-park ride based on his agreeably disgusting Hostelfilms for Universal Studios Hollywood.

In Disney World you can pretend you're riding magic teacups. In Parc Astérix you can make as if you're delivering menhirs to Unhygienix. Hostel: Hunting Season, presented in the form of a maze, will, presumably, invite visitors to imagine that they are being gutted alive by Slovakians in bad stone-washed jeans.

"Creating a maze for Halloween Horror Nights is a horror fan's dream come true," Roth said. "I've been visiting Halloween Horror Nights for years, and still remember the heart- pounding terror of going through the mazes for the first time." We're there.