The Amusement Park
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Directed by George A. Romero | 53 mins | 1975
The circumstances of this George A. Romero curio are as bizarre as the film itself. Commissioned as an educational video by a Lutheran organization, "The Amusement Park" screened just once at its 1975 premiere and, for over four decades, was considered lost media—before its rediscovery in 2017 just weeks before Romero’s death. The work is both public service announcement and horror fantasia; a day at the carnival becomes a ceaseless ordeal of humiliation and barbarity for an aging man (Lincoln Maazel) in this utterly chilling metaphor for elder abuse.
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