A few months ago, we learned that George A. Romero's long lost 1973 film The Amusement Park would be released through the Shudder streaming service in North America, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand – and now we know exactly when this release is going to happen. The Amusement Park is scheduled to reach Shudder on June 8th! Shudder has released a trailer for the film, and you can check that out above.
Romero was hired to make The Amusement Park by the Lutheran Society, and it was meant to be a TV PSA on elder abuse. The film was shelved when the Lutheran Society saw how strange and disturbing it was, but thankfully Romero's fans will now have the chance to see it nearly fifty years later.
The film stars Lincoln Maazel of Romero's Martin 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.
According to Shudder's description, The Amusement Park may be
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.
I will definitely be watching this next month.