An elderly gentleman goes for what he assumes will be an ordinary day at the amusement park, only to find himself in the middle of a hellish nightmare.... (Full plot summary below)
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An elderly gentleman goes for what he assumes will be an ordinary day at the amusement park, only to find himself in the middle of a hellish nightmare.
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| SlashfilmChris EvangelistaI can’t remember the last time a film shook me like this. |
| RogerEbert.comScout TafoyaWhatever the Lutherans thought they were paying for, they accidentally unleashed our most deeply cynical artist at the height of his ferocity toward the country's decaying morality, and wound up funding one of the most upsetting films of the '70s. |
| Screen RantDebopriyaa DuttaSporting discordant sound design and deliberately surreal visuals, The Amusement Park emerges as a harrowing allegory about the terrors of ageism. |
| The PlaylistBrian TallericoThe Amusement Park is a concise film (only 52 minutes), but Romero packs it so full of detail and ambition that it contains more to appreciate than most films that run three times as long. |
| Consequence of SoundMatt PriggeBarely seen or even heard of since it was made, this “lost” Romero film doesn’t disappoint, and even though it’s not technically a horror film, it will scare you into spending any and all free time tending to anyone over 70 for fear of karmic retribution. |
| The Film StageChristian GallichioIt doesn’t always work as a coherent whole, but The Amusement Park is still a fascinating experiment from a director at the height of his creative skills. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenWith The Amusement Park, George Romero holds a cracked (funhouse) mirror up to a callous and ultimately terrified society. |
| The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe Amusement Park passes in a deranged blur; it’s a glorified PSA made with the means (and in the spirit of) antagonistic outsider art. |
| VarietyMichael NordineShot on delightfully grainy 16mm and featuring a cast of nonprofessional actors, the film is so alluringly disorienting that, by its end, some viewers will find themselves struggling to remember how this fever dream started. |
| The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe film’s view of a mind thrown back on itself, and the profound vulnerability, mental derangement, and physical degradation that result, is, true to form, a political horror. |
