"The Amusement Park" is the only one of Romero's films that feels deliberately episodic without losing its through-line.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 16, 2021

"The 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.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 16, 2021

The Amusement Park is sharp social commentary rooted in brutal reality, a clear cousin to Romero's Living Dead movies despite the fact that it was a work-for-hire project.

| Jun 16, 2021

It's not horror in the conventional sense, nor is it even a feature film. That doesn't make The Amusement Park any less unnerving, which makes this restoration all the more impressive.

| Jun 16, 2021

It's really more of a wild curiosity, though-a footnote on a towering career. All the same, to receive even a minor work from this major artist feels like a blessing...

| Original Score: B | Jun 16, 2021

The 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.

| Jun 13, 2021

Romero died four years ago, but the strength of this posthumous work - to say nothing of his existing corpus - ensures that his legacy will live on.

| Jun 11, 2021

The important thing is to be disturbed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2021

tracks its ageing protagonist's journey from assurance and optimism to disorientation and despair. Carnivalesque both literally and metaphorically, it is a surreal affair, but for all its unnerving strangeness, the depressing subtext is spelt out...

| Jun 8, 2021

Finally recovered from the archive by the George A. Romero Foundation, and restored by New York's IndieCollect from two faded 16mm prints, its mere existence as a lost Romero is enough to make it worth watching.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2021

With The Amusement Park, George Romero holds a cracked (funhouse) mirror up to a callous and ultimately terrified society.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2021

The Amusement Park is one of Romero's trademark hammer-over-the-head metaphors. It is blunt in its message, and repetitive in its stylistic execution. But it is also a genuinely horrifying thing to watch...

| Jun 2, 2021