{"id":17881,"date":"2021-02-25T19:02:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=17881"},"modified":"2021-02-25T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T00:02:22","slug":"shudder-acquires-george-a-romeros-legendary-lost-film-the-amusement-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/25\/shudder-acquires-george-a-romeros-legendary-lost-film-the-amusement-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Shudder Acquires George A. Romero’s Legendary ‘Lost’ Film “The Amusement Park”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, announced the acquisition of The Amusement Park<\/em><\/strong> for North America, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The Amusement Park<\/em>, the formerly lost film from trailblazing independent filmmaker and genre cinema icon George A. Romero, will stream for the first time in history this summer. In addition, Shudder released the film’s poster, created by Polish artist Aleksander Wasilewski.<\/p>\n

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Recently discovered and restored 46 years after its completion by the George A. Romero Foundation and produced by Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, The Amusement Park<\/em> was restored in 4k by IndieCollect in New York City. The film 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.<\/p>