Back in 2019, the late George A. Romero‘s wife, Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, had teased that a largely unseen film Romero shot in ’73 was going to be restored and released. The 60-minute film is titled The Amusement Park, and it’s actually a PSA on age discrimination that Romero was hired to make early in his career. It was filmed for TV but never actually released.
“Though not in the horror genre it is George’s most terrifying film,” Suzanne Desrocher-Romero had stated at the time. “It has Romero’s unique footprint all over it.”
In The Amusement Park, which was written by Wally Cook…
“An elderly gentlemen sets out for what he thinks will be a normal day at an amusement park and is soon embroiled in a waking nightmare the likes of which you’ve never seen.”
When will you be able to watch it? The Amusement Park is coming to Shudder, we recently learned, and today the streaming service has announced the premiere date.
The Amusement Park premieres June 8, only on Shudder!
Check out the nightmarish trailer below…
Shudder previews, “Recently discovered and restored 46 years after its completion by the George A. Romero Foundation and produced by Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, The Amusement Park stars Martin’s Lincoln Maazel as an elderly man who finds himself disoriented and increasingly isolated as the pains, tragedies and humiliations of aging in America are manifested through roller coasters and chaotic crowds. Commissioned by the Lutheran Society, the film is perhaps Romero’s wildest and most imaginative movie, an allegory about the nightmarish realities of growing older, and is an alluring snapshot of the filmmaker’s early artistic capacity and style and would go on to inform his ensuing filmography.”
The film will be available on Shudder US, Shudder CA, Shudder UKI and Shudder ANZ.
source https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3663956/george-romeros-long-lost-film-amusement-park-coming-shudder-june-trailer/
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