George Romero's The Amusement Park, restored and re-released this week, is a bitterly comic (and sometimes just bitter) allegory of how society treats its aging citizens.
There's something very satisfying about the late American filmmaker George A. Romero – sometimes referred to as the "godfather of zombies" – refusing to stay dead.
"We intend for you to feel the problem, to experience it," he says, words that should tip off any horror fan to the nature of the coming drama. After negotiating with a shady pawn dealer-type who swindles seniors in exchange for ride tickets, Maazel encounters bureaucratic signs with unsettling messages and glimpses monstrous faces amongst the passengers.
The surreal, fatalistic images are sometimes bitterly funny, like the pathetic bandage that is affixed to an open wound on his head as he's callously rushed through a first-aid department.
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