The Amusement Park

1975
53min

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Lincoln Maazel in The Amusement Park (1975)

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Un homme âgé pensait passer une journée ordinaire au parc d'attractions, mais se retrouve dans un cauchemar infernal.Un homme âgé pensait passer une journée ordinaire au parc d'attractions, mais se retrouve dans un cauchemar infernal.Un homme âgé pensait passer une journée ordinaire au parc d'attractions, mais se retrouve dans un cauchemar infernal.

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Anecdotes
Shot in 1973, screened at several festivals and events through years but it went largely unseen otherwise. A print was re-discovered in 2017 and sent to Romero about three weeks before he passed away. It received a 4K restoration and the horror streaming service Shudder announced in February 2021 they'd acquired the rights to show the film, and would release it later that summer.

Gaffes
The sign for requirements to go on a ride says riders can't have "hardning of arteries" instead of "hardening of arteries".

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Featured in Half in the Bag: 2021 Movie Catch-Up (part 1 of 2) (2022)

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Ever wonder what an educational film directed by George Romero would look like?

Answer: The Amusement Park, an hour-long film on the terrible way society treats the elder commissioned by the Lutherans and directed by the great George Romero in 1973 but not seen until now. I can only imagine that the investors, upon seeing it, said, "WTF did we pay for???"

While it is what it is--a public service film on ageism--there's no mistaking that Romero directed it. (He even shows up as a nasty patron of the park's bumper cars.) It's extremely avant garde, humorless, and depressing. But it's well done on its nothing budget and still has a lot to say on the subject today. No, it's not so terrible or unfinished that it couldn't have been released back in the day. It's was just too much. (And kudos to George's widow and the George A. Romero Foundation for doing a nice job restoring it from a couple of faded 16mm prints.) It's worth a look as a weird curio and footnote to the career of the greatest horror director who ever lived.