Movie Review: Romero s Recently Unearthed The Amusement Park kmuw.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kmuw.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Made in 1973 as a PSA about elder abuse, and now restored for a dedicated horror audience, George A. Romero’s "lost film" The Amusement Park is simply not very entertaining or well crafted. It isn’t even always in focus. But as a cinematic bridge between his commercial work and his horror classics like Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Season of the Witch, it’s an unbeatable piece of film history. Streaming on Shudder now.
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.