Diary and
Survival of the Dead between 1978 and 2009, but there were many more strings to the filmmaker’s bow, and his long lost movie
The Amusement Parkis now streaming on Shudder after being painstakingly completed, restored and remastered in 4K. Not only that, but it’s being raved about by critics.
The 1973 chiller was originally commissioned by the Lutheran Society as an educational movie designed to deter elder abuse and ageism, but of course Romero turned it into a psychologically intense and disturbing mediation on what it means to grow old. After the Lutherans canceled the planned release outright,
The Amusement Park was long thought lost until a 16mm print was uncovered back in 2017.