Shudder Releasing George A. Romero's Nightmare Fuel Film 'THE AMUSEMENT PARK' On Blu-Ray!

A little over a year ago, Shudder announced they had unearthed George A. Romero’s long lost film, ‘The Amusement Park’ and bringing it the the streaming service. Now the streamer are releasing the film on Blu-Ray, Macabredaily has learned.

Romero’s The Amusement Park is getting a Blu-ray release from Shudder on September 13!

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.”

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.”

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