The Amusement Park

Here’s a weird idea: let’s hire a horror movie director to make a public service film. In the 1970s, a Lutheran organization commissioned George Romero to do just that - write a film about the undoubtedly serious problem of the disastrous living conditions of the elderly. The finished product was shelved right after its premiere and believed lost. Recently rediscovered and restored, it's now easy to imagine the perplexed expressions on the faces of the original producers. The Amusement Park turns out to be not so much an educational piece as a blunt satire intended to make viewers uncomfortable. Romero shows this world is no place for the elderly by making a young man wander the titular park, an allegorical space where not everyone has equal fun. The action unfolds in a series of nightmarish, comically exaggerated episodes, accompanied by an unbearable cacophony - the buzzing sound of someone else's happiness.