In this day and age, there are more films being made than ever before. It's easy to miss movies, so many audiences turn to sites like Rotten Tomatoes for guidance, though that may not necessarily have an impact on the box office. There's a common misconception about how that site works, though. The score given to each film isn't a representation of how good the movie is; instead, it represents the percentage of critics who would recommend the film overall. In other words, if half of all surveyed critics loved a movie and half of them hated it, the movie would clock in at 50% Fresh. That may not seem like a great score, but all it indicates is that a movie is polarizing; you might find yourself on either side of that divide.
With that in mind, the films on this list have near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes scores. That means almost...
With that in mind, the films on this list have near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes scores. That means almost...
- 4/8/2024
- by Eric Langberg
- Slash Film
Regal Cinemas is bringing Dawn of the Dead back to theaters for one night only on October 27th in celebration of the horror classic’s 45th anniversary.
George A. Romero’s 1978 film — a sequel of sorts to his 1968 project Night of the Living Dead — stars David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross as survivors of a zombie outbreak who take refuge in a suburban shopping mall while mass hysteria wreaks havoc on their town. While in production, the project caught the attention of fellow horror filmmaker Dario Argento who agreed to co-finance the film in exchange for distribution rights in his home country of Italy. Having recently come to international acclaim with his magnum opus Suspiria, Argento’s co-sign on Dawn of the Dead also helped propel Romero’s success.
Dawn of the Dead was controversial upon its release for its use of violence and gore, though it...
George A. Romero’s 1978 film — a sequel of sorts to his 1968 project Night of the Living Dead — stars David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross as survivors of a zombie outbreak who take refuge in a suburban shopping mall while mass hysteria wreaks havoc on their town. While in production, the project caught the attention of fellow horror filmmaker Dario Argento who agreed to co-finance the film in exchange for distribution rights in his home country of Italy. Having recently come to international acclaim with his magnum opus Suspiria, Argento’s co-sign on Dawn of the Dead also helped propel Romero’s success.
Dawn of the Dead was controversial upon its release for its use of violence and gore, though it...
- 10/17/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Film News
Yellow Veil Pictures, the U.S.-based arthouse genre distribution company, has acquired North American rights to Belgian director Claude Schmitz’s deadpan detective thriller “The Other Laurens.”
The feature debut world premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and will have its North American Premiere at Fantastic Fest which kicks off Sept. 23 in Austin, Texas. Yellow Veil Pictures plans for a theatrical release in 2024.
“The Other Laurens” follows a private detective, Gabriel, who has been asked by his niece to investigate her father’s death. Gabriel must confront the ghosts of his past and finds himself caught up in a strange investigation mixing fantasy and drug trafficking.
“‘The Other Laurens’ stands beside films like ‘The Big Lebowski’ and ‘The Long Goodbye’ in melding a level of absurdism into Neo-noir, revealing something darker beneath the surface,” said Joe Yannick at Yellow Veil Pictures.
The deal was negotiated by Hugues Barbier, Justin Timms...
The feature debut world premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and will have its North American Premiere at Fantastic Fest which kicks off Sept. 23 in Austin, Texas. Yellow Veil Pictures plans for a theatrical release in 2024.
“The Other Laurens” follows a private detective, Gabriel, who has been asked by his niece to investigate her father’s death. Gabriel must confront the ghosts of his past and finds himself caught up in a strange investigation mixing fantasy and drug trafficking.
“‘The Other Laurens’ stands beside films like ‘The Big Lebowski’ and ‘The Long Goodbye’ in melding a level of absurdism into Neo-noir, revealing something darker beneath the surface,” said Joe Yannick at Yellow Veil Pictures.
The deal was negotiated by Hugues Barbier, Justin Timms...
- 9/22/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Feature examines film as conduit for humanity’s end-of-millennium fear, anxiety, elation and obsession.
New York and LA-based genre arthouse specialists Yellow Veil Pictures have acquired worldwide rights to Amanda Kramer’s cyberspace cinema documentary So Unreal narrated by Blondie singer and pop icon Debbie Harry and will launch sales in Cannes.
So Unreal puts cyberspace cinema from 1981-2001 like The Matrix, Tron, Tetsuo and eXisTenz under the spotlight and examines film as a conduit for humanity’s fear, anxiety, elation and obsession over the emerging technology at the end of the millennium.
“What a deep honour that Debbie Harry lent her legendary,...
New York and LA-based genre arthouse specialists Yellow Veil Pictures have acquired worldwide rights to Amanda Kramer’s cyberspace cinema documentary So Unreal narrated by Blondie singer and pop icon Debbie Harry and will launch sales in Cannes.
So Unreal puts cyberspace cinema from 1981-2001 like The Matrix, Tron, Tetsuo and eXisTenz under the spotlight and examines film as a conduit for humanity’s fear, anxiety, elation and obsession over the emerging technology at the end of the millennium.
“What a deep honour that Debbie Harry lent her legendary,...
- 5/9/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Yellow Veil Pictures has announced that they have acquired worldwide rights for the erotic thriller documentary We Kill For Love ahead of the world premiere at the Overlook Film Festival. The company is planning a domestic release later this year and will represent the film for international sales with a launch at the upcoming Marche Du Film this May. Written, produced, and directed by Anthony Penta, the doc goes in search of the lost and misunderstood world of the direct-to-video erotic thriller, an American film genre that once dominated late night cable television and the shelves of neighborhood video stores. Director Anthony Penta Courtesy of Anthony Penta Michael Reed in We Kill for Love Courtesy of Yellow Veil Pictures Balancing film art with scholarship, We Kill For Love pulls back the curtain to reveal the heart and soul of a forgotten and often maligned film movement. Joe Yanick Co-Founder of...
- 3/29/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to the erotic thriller documentary “We Kill For Love” ahead of its world premiere at the Overlook Film Festival.
The company is planning a domestic release later this year and will represent the film for international sales with a launch at the upcoming Marche Du Film in Cannes.
Written, produced, and directed by Anthony Penta, “We Kill for Love” depicts the long-gone world of direct-to-video erotic thriller, an American film genre that once dominated late night cable television and the shelves of neighborhood video stores.
“‘We Kill For Love’ is a home run for erotic thriller fans,” said Joe Yanick, co-founder of Yellow Veil Pictures. “It’s one of the most in-depth looks at genre cinema and serves as more than just a love letter but pushes the conversation and spotlights films that have often often lost out to their more glamorous theatrical counterparts,...
The company is planning a domestic release later this year and will represent the film for international sales with a launch at the upcoming Marche Du Film in Cannes.
Written, produced, and directed by Anthony Penta, “We Kill for Love” depicts the long-gone world of direct-to-video erotic thriller, an American film genre that once dominated late night cable television and the shelves of neighborhood video stores.
“‘We Kill For Love’ is a home run for erotic thriller fans,” said Joe Yanick, co-founder of Yellow Veil Pictures. “It’s one of the most in-depth looks at genre cinema and serves as more than just a love letter but pushes the conversation and spotlights films that have often often lost out to their more glamorous theatrical counterparts,...
- 3/16/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
George A. Romero is one of my favorite filmmakers and a personal hero of mine, so while we lost the man in 2017, I’ve been glad to see the work the George A. Romero Foundation has done to preserve his legacy. That includes unearthing his long-lost 1973 film The Amusement Park, finding a home for his archive collection (featuring his 1994 short film Jacaranda Joe) at the University of Pittsburgh, and even setting up a podcast sequel to Night of the Living Dead. Now the Foundation has announced that they have located an unfinished short film that Romero shot in Pittsburgh in 1963, and they plan to complete it under the title Romero’s Elegy. They could use the help of Romero’s fans to do so, and are accepting donations at This Link.
It doesn’t sound like this short film was horror, but it was shot by one of our greatest genre directors.
It doesn’t sound like this short film was horror, but it was shot by one of our greatest genre directors.
- 3/8/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
In the wake of George A. Romero’s long lost movie The Amusement Park finally seeing release last year, The George A. Romero Foundation is now looking to restore another part of the late filmmaker’s legacy. “With your support, we can finish George A. Romero’s once-lost short film from 1963,” the team says this week, referring to a short film titled Elegy.
The Romero Foundation details, “At 23 years old, George A. Romero implored his uncle for a new Bolex camera. His uncle gave him $5,000 to purchase it. With his new friends, Russ Streiner and Richard Ricci, they shot a series of short films, all thought to have been lost. One of these films, now entitled Romero’s Elegy, was found and is being restored by The Garf.
“Romero’s Elegy is a 21-minute film shot in Pittsburgh in 1963. Shot without sound or dialogue, the original intention was to add music and poetry to it.
The Romero Foundation details, “At 23 years old, George A. Romero implored his uncle for a new Bolex camera. His uncle gave him $5,000 to purchase it. With his new friends, Russ Streiner and Richard Ricci, they shot a series of short films, all thought to have been lost. One of these films, now entitled Romero’s Elegy, was found and is being restored by The Garf.
“Romero’s Elegy is a 21-minute film shot in Pittsburgh in 1963. Shot without sound or dialogue, the original intention was to add music and poetry to it.
- 3/7/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
(Welcome to SlashClips, a series where we bring you exclusive clips from hot new Digital, Blu-ray, and theatrical releases you won't see anywhere else!)
In this edition:
House of DarknessThe Amusement ParkGratitude RevealedRiotsville, USAThe BengaliHouse Of Darkness
First up, Saban Films has provided us with an exclusive clip from "House of Darkness," the new thriller starring Justin Long coming off his major success with last weekend's #1 movie "Barbarian." Written and directed by the acclaimed Neil Labute, the gothic horror-mystery-comedy co-stars Kate Bosworth, Gia Crovatin, and Lucy Walters. It is now available in theaters, on digital, and on demand.
Here is the official synopsis:
Justin Long and Kate Bosworth star in this seductive thriller from director Neil Labute ("The Wicker Man"). Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted,...
In this edition:
House of DarknessThe Amusement ParkGratitude RevealedRiotsville, USAThe BengaliHouse Of Darkness
First up, Saban Films has provided us with an exclusive clip from "House of Darkness," the new thriller starring Justin Long coming off his major success with last weekend's #1 movie "Barbarian." Written and directed by the acclaimed Neil Labute, the gothic horror-mystery-comedy co-stars Kate Bosworth, Gia Crovatin, and Lucy Walters. It is now available in theaters, on digital, and on demand.
Here is the official synopsis:
Justin Long and Kate Bosworth star in this seductive thriller from director Neil Labute ("The Wicker Man"). Driving home to her secluded estate after meeting at a local bar, a player out to score thinks his beautiful, mysterious date will be another casual hook-up. While getting acquainted,...
- 9/13/2022
- by Max Evry
- Slash Film
George A. Romero’S The Amusement Park Available on Digital, DVD & Blu-ray September 13th Recently discovered and restored 46 years after its completion, George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park 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 …
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- 8/16/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Rlje Films, in association with Shudder, has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of George A. Romero's The Amusement Park (1975), starring Lincoln Maazel, Harry Albacker, Phyllis Casterwiler, Pete Chovan, and Marion Cook. The release will be available for purchase on September 13.
Official description: 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 instead.
Shot by George A. Romero between Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, The Amusement Park is a bleak, haunting allegory where the attractions and distractions of an amusement park stand in for the many abuses that the elderly face in society. New 4K digital restorati...
Official description: 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 instead.
Shot by George A. Romero between Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, The Amusement Park is a bleak, haunting allegory where the attractions and distractions of an amusement park stand in for the many abuses that the elderly face in society. New 4K digital restorati...
- 8/15/2022
- QuietEarth.us
Film explores iconic Child’s Play franchise through perspective of those involved.
Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired world sales rights to Kyra Elise Gardner’s debut documentary feature Living With Chucky, which will screen at Frightfest in the UK later this month.
The film explores the iconic Child’s Play franchise through a personal and social perspective. Gardner is the daughter of Tony Gardner, who was the chief puppeteer for the majority of the horror franchise inspired by Child’s Play in 1988.
Living With Chucky uses new and archival interview footage to explore the film’s cultural impact over the years with principal...
Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired world sales rights to Kyra Elise Gardner’s debut documentary feature Living With Chucky, which will screen at Frightfest in the UK later this month.
The film explores the iconic Child’s Play franchise through a personal and social perspective. Gardner is the daughter of Tony Gardner, who was the chief puppeteer for the majority of the horror franchise inspired by Child’s Play in 1988.
Living With Chucky uses new and archival interview footage to explore the film’s cultural impact over the years with principal...
- 8/15/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
New York City and L.A.-based indie distributor 1091 Pictures, known for such hit releases as Taika Waititi’s “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” Spirit Awards winner “Christine” and knockout comedy “The Overnight,” has swooped in on rights to all English-speaking territories for psychedelic thriller “To the Moon.” The drama, sold by Yellow Veil Pictures, marks the directorial debut of actor Scott Friend (“The Dark End of the Street”), who also wrote the pic and plays a lead role in it.
The movie, which is debuting its first poster in Variety, premiered last year at the online film festival Nightstream, and was in selection at the 2020 U.S. in Progress industry showcase organized by Wroclaw’s American Film Festival, which later hosted the pic’s international premiere.
“To the Moon” is a twist on the unwanted-house-guest trope. It follows a young couple, played by Friend and Madeleine Morgenweck, who find...
The movie, which is debuting its first poster in Variety, premiered last year at the online film festival Nightstream, and was in selection at the 2020 U.S. in Progress industry showcase organized by Wroclaw’s American Film Festival, which later hosted the pic’s international premiere.
“To the Moon” is a twist on the unwanted-house-guest trope. It follows a young couple, played by Friend and Madeleine Morgenweck, who find...
- 2/11/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Welp, 2021 was certainly a year. There was a lot of good (Movies! TV! Books! Random Horror Awesomeness!) and a lot of bad (pretty much everything else), but we made it to 2022, and I am excited for all that’s to come in the next 12 months (at least when it comes to stuff going on in horror). Over the course of last year, I think formally reviewed over 60 films, did interviews for at least 20 other projects beyond those reviewed films, relaunched Indie Horror Month in April, and even did a ton of other features and articles on Daily Dead as well.
Suffice to say, 2021 was pretty darned busy for me on the writing front and because there was so much content that I absolutely adored, I decided that for my favorites list this time around, I wanted to do things a bit differently because if I dive into every single thing...
Suffice to say, 2021 was pretty darned busy for me on the writing front and because there was so much content that I absolutely adored, I decided that for my favorites list this time around, I wanted to do things a bit differently because if I dive into every single thing...
- 1/4/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
If my shortlist for this piece is any indication, Hollywood adjusted to Covid just fine. I’ve put aside an average of 60-70 posters every year since I’ve been doing Posterized until barely hitting 40 in 2020. It wasn’t a dearth of quality work, but the fact that there were so many fewer releases to choose from. And since I base these columns on current-year US runs rather than when one-sheets start making their rounds, my pool of candidates was greatly reduced.
So either 2021 work was off-the-charts or the hybrid theatrical-streaming schedule found itself whole once again, because I was back to around 65. It helps too when you get new players on the scene, alt-posters too good to dismiss, and social-media controversy courtesy the collision of nudity and art that put more international designs into our American consciousness.
There are a couple below where the domestic marketing team decided to...
So either 2021 work was off-the-charts or the hybrid theatrical-streaming schedule found itself whole once again, because I was back to around 65. It helps too when you get new players on the scene, alt-posters too good to dismiss, and social-media controversy courtesy the collision of nudity and art that put more international designs into our American consciousness.
There are a couple below where the domestic marketing team decided to...
- 12/31/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
This has turned out to be a banner year for fans of the late director George A. Romero. First, there was the release of his long-lost 1975 film "The Amusement Park" and now his 1968 horror masterwork "Night of the Living Dead" has been faithfully remade in animation form by Warner Bros. and titled "Night of the Animated Dead." Voicing the small but crucial role of Judy (originally portrayed by Judith Ridley) is fan favorite actress Katee Sackhoff, who is best known for big sci-fi franchises: "Battlestar Galactica," "Riddick," "Another Life" and most recently "The Mandalorian." However, she has a history with the horror genre...
The post Katee Sackhoff Returns to Horror in Night of the Animated Dead [Interview] appeared first on /Film.
The post Katee Sackhoff Returns to Horror in Night of the Animated Dead [Interview] appeared first on /Film.
- 9/20/2021
- by Max Evry
- Slash Film
We are Very excited for the return of Salem Horror Fest this October and they already have some major announcement to share. The annual "Romero Lives" celebration will be moving from Pittsburgh to Salem, with a month-long series of screenings and events planned to celebrate the life and work of George A. Romero! And the first wave of films has been officially announced! Here's the official press release:
Salem Horror Fest has announced first wave of programs for their fifth annual return to the Halloween capital of the world this October.
Romero Lives, the annual retrospective celebrating the life and legacy of George A. Romero, will relocate from Pittsburgh to Salem for a curated month-long series dedicated to the Master of Horror in partnership with The George A. Romero Foundation. Events to include a screening of the newly restored ‘lost’ Romero film, The Amusement Park and the 100th episode of...
Salem Horror Fest has announced first wave of programs for their fifth annual return to the Halloween capital of the world this October.
Romero Lives, the annual retrospective celebrating the life and legacy of George A. Romero, will relocate from Pittsburgh to Salem for a curated month-long series dedicated to the Master of Horror in partnership with The George A. Romero Foundation. Events to include a screening of the newly restored ‘lost’ Romero film, The Amusement Park and the 100th episode of...
- 7/14/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
On this episode of Daily Dead's official podcast, Corpse Club co-hosts Bryan Christopher, Tamika Jones, and Jonathan James discuss the recent release of George A. Romero's "Lost Film" The Amusement Park. The co-hosts also talk about some of their their thoughts on the latest installment of The Conjuring series, before discussing their love of the new Loki series!
You can listen to the new episode of Corpse Club right now on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, TuneIn, YouTube, Pandora, and SoundCloud.
Looking for more scary good Corpse Club content? Be sure to check out our Corpse Club website and memberships. Not only can you view past episodes, but you can also sign up to be an official Corpse Club member to enjoy a wide range of rewards, including a shirt and pin that are to die for, access to bonus content, and the ability to suggest an episode topic!
You can listen to the new episode of Corpse Club right now on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, TuneIn, YouTube, Pandora, and SoundCloud.
Looking for more scary good Corpse Club content? Be sure to check out our Corpse Club website and memberships. Not only can you view past episodes, but you can also sign up to be an official Corpse Club member to enjoy a wide range of rewards, including a shirt and pin that are to die for, access to bonus content, and the ability to suggest an episode topic!
- 6/18/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
Museum of the Moving Image
The Shining and 2001 play; Juneteenth is commemorated with Daughters of the Dust and Do the Right Thing.
Film at Lincoln Center
The new restoration of In the Mood for Love continues playing daily, while Muhammad Ali, the Greatest screens with Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris on Saturday.
IFC Center
George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park, about which a whole lot more here, continues, while a restoration of Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls kicks off.
Roxy Cinema
The American Friend screens this Friday and Saturday.
Bam
Thousand Pieces of Gold...
Museum of the Moving Image
The Shining and 2001 play; Juneteenth is commemorated with Daughters of the Dust and Do the Right Thing.
Film at Lincoln Center
The new restoration of In the Mood for Love continues playing daily, while Muhammad Ali, the Greatest screens with Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris on Saturday.
IFC Center
George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park, about which a whole lot more here, continues, while a restoration of Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls kicks off.
Roxy Cinema
The American Friend screens this Friday and Saturday.
Bam
Thousand Pieces of Gold...
- 6/18/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Toby Poser, Zelda Adams, John Adams directed.
New York and LA-based arthouse genre sales agency Yellow Veil Pictures has added worldwide sales rights to upcoming Fantasia International Film Festival selection Hellbender heading into the virtual Cannes market.
Toby Poser, Zelda Adams, and John Adams directed the film about 16-year-old Izzy, who leads an isolated life on a lonely mountaintop due to a rare sickness.
Questioning her illness and starving for company, Izzy sneaks down the mountain where she befriends a brazen older girl (Lulu Adams) and takes part in a drinking game involving a live worm.
When the drink awakes an insatiable hunger within,...
New York and LA-based arthouse genre sales agency Yellow Veil Pictures has added worldwide sales rights to upcoming Fantasia International Film Festival selection Hellbender heading into the virtual Cannes market.
Toby Poser, Zelda Adams, and John Adams directed the film about 16-year-old Izzy, who leads an isolated life on a lonely mountaintop due to a rare sickness.
Questioning her illness and starving for company, Izzy sneaks down the mountain where she befriends a brazen older girl (Lulu Adams) and takes part in a drinking game involving a live worm.
When the drink awakes an insatiable hunger within,...
- 6/17/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Amusement Park Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dca) has announced the line-up for its horror weekend Dundead Summer Camp, which will run from Friday 9 to Sunday 11 July.
Among the highlights is a screening of the previously unreleased George A Romero film The Amusement Park - which our reviewer says "won't disappoint" - while the festival opens with the UK premiere of horror-comedy whodunnit Werewolves Within. There will also be a preview screening of Mads Mikkelsen-starring revenge thriller Riders Of Justice and the Scottish premiere of documentary Alien On Stage.
In addition to physical screenings, some of the films will be available on Dca’s online streaming platform, Dca at Home.
Festival programmer Michael Coull, said: “After the last year, we’re delighted to be bringing Dundead back to Dca’s screens again, with a weekend of the best in brand-new horror, and one very special vintage treat."
Tickets are on sale...
Among the highlights is a screening of the previously unreleased George A Romero film The Amusement Park - which our reviewer says "won't disappoint" - while the festival opens with the UK premiere of horror-comedy whodunnit Werewolves Within. There will also be a preview screening of Mads Mikkelsen-starring revenge thriller Riders Of Justice and the Scottish premiere of documentary Alien On Stage.
In addition to physical screenings, some of the films will be available on Dca’s online streaming platform, Dca at Home.
Festival programmer Michael Coull, said: “After the last year, we’re delighted to be bringing Dundead back to Dca’s screens again, with a weekend of the best in brand-new horror, and one very special vintage treat."
Tickets are on sale...
- 6/17/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
From Luz to George A. Romero's The Amusement Park, Yellow Veil Pictures has been involved in getting some excellent films in front of horror fans, and they're taking the next logical step: launching a North American distribution arm. The first title as part of their new venture will be, Frida Kempff's Knocking, which recently screened at Sundance:
"June 16, 2021 // - Ahead of the Pre-Cannes Screenings, which run in advance of the 2021 Marché du Film, worldwide sales arthouse genre outfit Yellow Veil Pictures announces the launch of a new North American distribution arm. The company will continue to focus on boundary-pushing genre cinema and will inaugurate the new venture with Frida Kempff’s Sundance hit Knocking with a planned theatrical and digital release this fall.
Knocking marks the feature debut for Kempff who, in 2010, saw her short Bathing Mickey take home the Prix du Jury at Cannes. The film stars Cecilia Milocco (Involuntary) as Molly,...
"June 16, 2021 // - Ahead of the Pre-Cannes Screenings, which run in advance of the 2021 Marché du Film, worldwide sales arthouse genre outfit Yellow Veil Pictures announces the launch of a new North American distribution arm. The company will continue to focus on boundary-pushing genre cinema and will inaugurate the new venture with Frida Kempff’s Sundance hit Knocking with a planned theatrical and digital release this fall.
Knocking marks the feature debut for Kempff who, in 2010, saw her short Bathing Mickey take home the Prix du Jury at Cannes. The film stars Cecilia Milocco (Involuntary) as Molly,...
- 6/16/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
It’s only fitting that George A. Romero, who created the zombie movie as we know it, would release a film from beyond the grave. Nearly 50 years after it was completed, shelved and thought to be lost, “The Amusement Park” has returned to the land of the living — and, just as important, proven worth the wait. 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.
The film begins with a fourth-wall-breaking monologue from its star, actor Lincoln Maazel, who walks through damp, empty streets while bemoaning the ways in which the elderly are prevented from fully participating in society. “Remember as you watch the film,” his soliloquy ends, “one day you will be old.”
If this seems a little overt for a filmmaker as inclined toward allegory as Romero, there’s a reason...
The film begins with a fourth-wall-breaking monologue from its star, actor Lincoln Maazel, who walks through damp, empty streets while bemoaning the ways in which the elderly are prevented from fully participating in society. “Remember as you watch the film,” his soliloquy ends, “one day you will be old.”
If this seems a little overt for a filmmaker as inclined toward allegory as Romero, there’s a reason...
- 6/11/2021
- by Michael Nordine
- Variety Film + TV
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
The Amusement Park (George A. Romero)
Created as a PSA to raise awareness about elder abuse, George A. Romero’s 1973 film The Amusement Park, long considered lost and recently restored by Romero’s widow Suzanne and the George A. Romero Foundation, arrives on Shudder as a time-capsule oddity. Produced by the Lutheran Society at a point in Romero’s career post-Night of the Living Dead and pre-Dawn that saw the infamous horror director in a period of commercial and critical decline, The Amusement Park is a damning, if not exactly horrifying, condemnation of the ways in which society marginalizes and others its elderly. – Christian G. (full review)
Where to Watch: Shudder
City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
In the opening shot of Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery,...
The Amusement Park (George A. Romero)
Created as a PSA to raise awareness about elder abuse, George A. Romero’s 1973 film The Amusement Park, long considered lost and recently restored by Romero’s widow Suzanne and the George A. Romero Foundation, arrives on Shudder as a time-capsule oddity. Produced by the Lutheran Society at a point in Romero’s career post-Night of the Living Dead and pre-Dawn that saw the infamous horror director in a period of commercial and critical decline, The Amusement Park is a damning, if not exactly horrifying, condemnation of the ways in which society marginalizes and others its elderly. – Christian G. (full review)
Where to Watch: Shudder
City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
In the opening shot of Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery,...
- 6/11/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Amusement Park was a public-service movie made when the horror maestro was a struggling novice. His widow explains why ‘it’s more Romero than all his other films’
Until the final month of his life, there was one film that George A Romero never mentioned to his wife.
The couple were sent a copy of The Amusement Park three weeks before his death in 2017 by the curator of a retrospective planned in Torino. It was a public information film about ageism but the charity that commissioned it decades earlier had been so disturbed by the final product they cancelled the release and shelved the prints.
Until the final month of his life, there was one film that George A Romero never mentioned to his wife.
The couple were sent a copy of The Amusement Park three weeks before his death in 2017 by the curator of a retrospective planned in Torino. It was a public information film about ageism but the charity that commissioned it decades earlier had been so disturbed by the final product they cancelled the release and shelved the prints.
- 6/11/2021
- by Sophie Monks Kaufman
- The Guardian - Film News
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
Museum of the Moving Image
Paths of Glory and 2001 play, the latter on 70mm this Friday; non-Kubrick films include Fantasia, The Piano, and (at the Queens Drive-In) Carrie.
Bam
Ousmane Sembène’s Mandabi, newly restored, kicks off Bam’s return to repertory programming.
IFC Center
George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park, about which a whole lot more here, continues.
Paris Theater
With his excellent new film The Disciple available at alternating times, Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court screens.
Film Forum
As a new 4K restoration of La Piscine debuts, 8½ and The Ladykillers continue.
Film...
Museum of the Moving Image
Paths of Glory and 2001 play, the latter on 70mm this Friday; non-Kubrick films include Fantasia, The Piano, and (at the Queens Drive-In) Carrie.
Bam
Ousmane Sembène’s Mandabi, newly restored, kicks off Bam’s return to repertory programming.
IFC Center
George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park, about which a whole lot more here, continues.
Paris Theater
With his excellent new film The Disciple available at alternating times, Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court screens.
Film Forum
As a new 4K restoration of La Piscine debuts, 8½ and The Ladykillers continue.
Film...
- 6/11/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Suzanne Desrocher was tending bar in Toronto when she noticed that the tall guy with white hair was becoming a regular. “I had spied him and thought he was some kind of an artist.” She didn’t know who he was at first. An ex-boyfriend finally made a proper introduction one night. His name was George A. Romero and he was in town making the movie Land of the Dead, then in post-production. Did Suzanne wanna come over and watch it? “I was a bit nervous about it. I’d heard he was a zombie director and that wasn’t my kind of thing, I thought it was gonna be trash. I wanted to polite,” she said with a laugh. “He shut the TV off and said, ‘What did you think?’” I told him, ‘It’s not that bad!’ He roared with laughter. I couldn’t have reviewed the film better.
- 6/9/2021
- by Scout Tafoya
- The Film Stage
While it’s not a horror movie per se, George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park is easily one of the most unsettling and maddening viewing experiences I’ve had this year. Maybe it hit me differently now that I'm in my forties, as opposed to if I saw this back in my twenties, but I think regardless of your age, The Amusement Park is easily one of the most disconcerting films about the aging process to come along in some time, and to see it finally resurrected after all these years is a real treat for fans of Romero’s entire body of work.
The Amusement Park is technically an industrial film that Romero was hired to make on behalf of the Lutheran Society in the 1970s, but due to George’s wildly hallucinogenic and horrifying approach to the subject matter at hand, the film was all but lost...
The Amusement Park is technically an industrial film that Romero was hired to make on behalf of the Lutheran Society in the 1970s, but due to George’s wildly hallucinogenic and horrifying approach to the subject matter at hand, the film was all but lost...
- 6/8/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
For cinephiles and fans of George A. Romero, you will not want to miss out on tonight's virtual premiere of The Amusement Park, and we have all the details on how and when to tune in for the live watch and panel:
To celebrate the premiere of the George A. Romero’s “lost” and restored film, The Amusement Park, Shudder is hosting a live watch followed by a virtual panel on the film and its place within the pioneering independent filmmaker’s influential body of work.
The screening will be available to Shudder members via the Shudder TV feed in the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday at 8:05pm Et, as well as on demand to Shudder members worldwide. Immediately following at 9pm Et on Shudder TV and on Shudder’s YouTube channel, the panel “Reviving Romero’s The Amusement Park” will feature a conversation between Suzanne Desrocher Romero,...
To celebrate the premiere of the George A. Romero’s “lost” and restored film, The Amusement Park, Shudder is hosting a live watch followed by a virtual panel on the film and its place within the pioneering independent filmmaker’s influential body of work.
The screening will be available to Shudder members via the Shudder TV feed in the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday at 8:05pm Et, as well as on demand to Shudder members worldwide. Immediately following at 9pm Et on Shudder TV and on Shudder’s YouTube channel, the panel “Reviving Romero’s The Amusement Park” will feature a conversation between Suzanne Desrocher Romero,...
- 6/8/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Producer Suzanne Desrocher-Romero is in the process of completing her late husband George A. Romero’s first attempt at filmmaking, which tells the story of an African American father and his son.
Although the horror pioneer is often dubbed “Godfather of Zombies,” the unnamed 21-minute silent short – thought to have been shot in 1961 – remains ghoul-free.
The film got shelved, according to Desrocher-Romero, when the “Night of the Living Dead” director’s commercials company Latent Image started getting more work and remained untouched.
Desrocher-Romero, who founded the George A. Romero Foundation (Garf) – dedicated to preserving the director’s legacy – two years ago, is now in the process of “knitting together” a narration and some music for the film, which she hopes to release on the festival circuit later this year.
The narration comprises of a poem, “Romero’s Elegy” (also now the film’s title), which was written by Romero’s...
Although the horror pioneer is often dubbed “Godfather of Zombies,” the unnamed 21-minute silent short – thought to have been shot in 1961 – remains ghoul-free.
The film got shelved, according to Desrocher-Romero, when the “Night of the Living Dead” director’s commercials company Latent Image started getting more work and remained untouched.
Desrocher-Romero, who founded the George A. Romero Foundation (Garf) – dedicated to preserving the director’s legacy – two years ago, is now in the process of “knitting together” a narration and some music for the film, which she hopes to release on the festival circuit later this year.
The narration comprises of a poem, “Romero’s Elegy” (also now the film’s title), which was written by Romero’s...
- 6/5/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
We're not going to shake a stick at the excitement of big movies dropping on streaming services.
Two soon-to-be blockbusters, Awake on Netflix and Infinite on Paramount+, drop this week, as well as a classic horror film from George Romero that has never been seen! That drops on Shudder.
Love, Victor and Home Before Dark both begin their second seasons on Netflix and Apple TV+, respectively. See what else we recommend!
Saturday, June 5
8/7c Gone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos (Lifetime)
Annabeth Gish stars as Jennifer Dulos, and Warren Christie stars as Fortis Dulos. The film is based on the story, exploring the tragic disappearance of a wealthy Connecticut mother of five.
A custody battle gone terribly wrong, it's a tragic true-crime story as part of Lifetime's Summer of Secrets.
It's a fascinating case full of twists and many things left unanswered, and it's the perfect Saturday night viewing for the true-crime Fanatics.
Two soon-to-be blockbusters, Awake on Netflix and Infinite on Paramount+, drop this week, as well as a classic horror film from George Romero that has never been seen! That drops on Shudder.
Love, Victor and Home Before Dark both begin their second seasons on Netflix and Apple TV+, respectively. See what else we recommend!
Saturday, June 5
8/7c Gone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos (Lifetime)
Annabeth Gish stars as Jennifer Dulos, and Warren Christie stars as Fortis Dulos. The film is based on the story, exploring the tragic disappearance of a wealthy Connecticut mother of five.
A custody battle gone terribly wrong, it's a tragic true-crime story as part of Lifetime's Summer of Secrets.
It's a fascinating case full of twists and many things left unanswered, and it's the perfect Saturday night viewing for the true-crime Fanatics.
- 6/5/2021
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
Legendary horror filmmaker George A. Romero passed away in 2017, but it seems like he’s in the news now more than in the last few years before his untimely death. First it was announced earlier in 2021 that a “lost” Romero film called The Amusement Park had been rediscovered and restored, and would premiere this month on horror streaming service Shudder. It’s essentially a 53-minute public service announcement about aging and elder abuse, commissioned by the Lutheran Society back in 1973 and filtered through the filmmaker’s nightmarish worldview, and it’s more than time it sees the light of day.
But then last month, Romero’s widow, Suzanne Romero, told The Hollywood Reporter that her husband had been working on a final film in his iconic Dead series, tentatively titled Twilight of the Dead, before his passing. So when we had the chance to jump on a Zoom call with Suzanne this week,...
But then last month, Romero’s widow, Suzanne Romero, told The Hollywood Reporter that her husband had been working on a final film in his iconic Dead series, tentatively titled Twilight of the Dead, before his passing. So when we had the chance to jump on a Zoom call with Suzanne this week,...
- 6/4/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Arriving on Shudder on Tuesday, June 8th is a recently restored version of George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park, an industrial film that Romero directed on behalf of the Lutheran Society which showcased the horrors of how elderly people are treated by society 46 years ago (and still remains potently vital storytelling today). Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with George’s wife, Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, about the restoration process that helped preserve The Amusement Park after all these years as well as her thoughts on the unsettlingly surreal film. Suzanne also discussed wanting to not only preserve George’s legacy through the efforts of the George A. Romero Foundation, but also supporting and showcasing the talents of other filmmakers out there as well.
So great to speak with you today, Suzanne. I'm a genre journalist and The Amusement Park is probably one of the most horrifying things I've watched all year thus far.
So great to speak with you today, Suzanne. I'm a genre journalist and The Amusement Park is probably one of the most horrifying things I've watched all year thus far.
- 6/3/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
In 1973, the Lutheran Society reached out to a young filmmaker named George A. Romero and asked him to make a film about elder abuse and ageism. The director really only had “Night of the Living Dead” under his belt at this point in his career—“The Crazies” would be released later that year, and “Martin” and “Dawn of the Dead” were still five years away—and so when the finished product didn’t satisfy those who had commissioned it, “The Amusement Park” was shelved for almost five decades.
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- 6/3/2021
- by Brian Tallerico
- The Playlist
The Amusement Park is technically not a horror film, but it might just be the most disturbing, scariest thing George A. Romero ever directed. Romero became renowned for his iconic Night of the Living Dead, but it often felt like we took the filmmaker – who died in 2017 – for granted. He remained a true […]
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- 6/3/2021
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Created as a PSA to raise awareness about elder abuse, George A. Romero’s 1973 film The Amusement Park, long considered lost and recently restored by Romero’s widow Suzanne and the George A. Romero Foundation, arrives on Shudder as a time-capsule oddity. Produced by the Lutheran Society at a point in Romero’s career post-Night of the Living Dead and pre-Dawn that saw the infamous horror director in a period of commercial and critical decline, The Amusement Park is a damning, if not exactly horrifying, condemnation of the ways in which society marginalizes and others its elderly.
Using an amusement park as a metaphorical microcosm of a society that prioritizes youth and wealth, Romero trades nuance—never his forte anyways—for blistering critique. Shelved by financiers who determined that Romero’s aggressive style was less public service than an extension of his socio-political horror output, The Amusement Park is...
Using an amusement park as a metaphorical microcosm of a society that prioritizes youth and wealth, Romero trades nuance—never his forte anyways—for blistering critique. Shelved by financiers who determined that Romero’s aggressive style was less public service than an extension of his socio-political horror output, The Amusement Park is...
- 6/2/2021
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Film Stage
Happy June, dear readers! We have officially made it through another month, which means we have a brand new slate of films and other genre-related programming headed to VOD and various digital platforms in the coming weeks. And even though summer is around the corner, which means everyone is getting ready to enjoy some fun in the sun, here’s a rundown of more than 20 reasons to want to stay in and indulge in some great horror and sci-fi entertainment at home this month.
Happy streaming!
Dementia Part II (Dark Star Pictures/Bloody Disgusting) - June 1st
Wendell (Matt Mercer) receives a threatening phone call from his parole officer Reggie (Graham Skipper)… if he doesn’t find a job immediately, he will face serious legal repercussions. Wendell wrangles some home maintenance work for a seemingly benign older woman, Suzanne (Suzanne Voss), who persists in giving him increasingly absurd tasks to complete around the house.
Happy streaming!
Dementia Part II (Dark Star Pictures/Bloody Disgusting) - June 1st
Wendell (Matt Mercer) receives a threatening phone call from his parole officer Reggie (Graham Skipper)… if he doesn’t find a job immediately, he will face serious legal repercussions. Wendell wrangles some home maintenance work for a seemingly benign older woman, Suzanne (Suzanne Voss), who persists in giving him increasingly absurd tasks to complete around the house.
- 6/1/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
We're just over a week away from the kick-off of a Summer of Chills over at Shudder. Here is a reminder of what is coming in June, and let us tell you it will be a great month for horror fans. First of all, the originals premiering this month are all top shelf. June kicks off with Caveat then the recovered Romero film The Amusement Park, followed by Superdeep, An Unquiet Grave and ending with Canadian horror comedy Vicious Fun. But do not discount the additions to the Shudder library this month either. There's Refn's Neon Deamon, the daddy of all zombie movies Night of the Living Dead, Clint Howard in Evilspeak, the awesome Kiwi horror comedy Housebound, Isaac Ezban's sci-fi horror The Similars, our...
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- 5/21/2021
- Screen Anarchy
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
Paris Theater
The late Monte Hellman’s masterpiece Two-Lane Blacktop plays in 35mm on Saturday and Sunday.
IFC Center
The long-lost, newly restored George A. Romero feature The Amusement Park is now playing.
Museum of the Moving Image
The Fabulous Baker Boys plays in 35mm on Saturday. Read Matthew Eng on Michell Pfeiffer’s performance from his recent feature:
Pfeiffer egregiously lost an easy Oscar years earlier to Driving Miss Daisy’s sentimental favorite Jessica Tandy, despite claiming every major critics’ prize for playing escort-turned-lounge-singer Susie Diamond in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989). Slinking on...
Paris Theater
The late Monte Hellman’s masterpiece Two-Lane Blacktop plays in 35mm on Saturday and Sunday.
IFC Center
The long-lost, newly restored George A. Romero feature The Amusement Park is now playing.
Museum of the Moving Image
The Fabulous Baker Boys plays in 35mm on Saturday. Read Matthew Eng on Michell Pfeiffer’s performance from his recent feature:
Pfeiffer egregiously lost an easy Oscar years earlier to Driving Miss Daisy’s sentimental favorite Jessica Tandy, despite claiming every major critics’ prize for playing escort-turned-lounge-singer Susie Diamond in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989). Slinking on...
- 5/20/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Amusement Park Will Be Available Exclusively On Shudder On June 8th On Shudder US, Shudder CA, Shudder Uki and Shudder Anz Synopsis Recently discovered and restored 46 years after its completion by the George A. Romero Foundation and produced by Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, The Amusement Park stars Martin’s Lincoln Maazel as an elderly man who …
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- 5/13/2021
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Killers of the Flower Moon (2021)From Osage News, the first official image from Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon, featuring Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio. Recommended VIEWINGFollowing the release of his series The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins has also released The Gaze, a 50-minute non-narrative video piece that captures the show's background actors in moments of stillness. The film challenges the notion of the "white gaze" by pursuing what Jenkins refers to as "the Black gaze; or the gaze distilled." Shudder has released an official trailer for George A. Romero's The Amusement Park, a restoration of the long-lost 1973 film. Originally a commissioned work by the Lutheran Society, The Amusement Park was shelved for its terrifying depiction of elder abuse. The film will premiere on Shudder on June 8. Over at Ecstatic Static,...
- 5/12/2021
- MUBI
George A. Romero’S The Amusement Park Will Be Available Exclusively On Shudder On June 8th
Check out this bizarre trailer:
Recently discovered and restored 46 years after its completion by the George A. Romero Foundation and produced by Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, The Amusement Park 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. The “lost” film was restored in 4k by IndieCollect in New York City.
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Check out this bizarre trailer:
Recently discovered and restored 46 years after its completion by the George A. Romero Foundation and produced by Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, The Amusement Park 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. The “lost” film was restored in 4k by IndieCollect in New York City.
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- 5/7/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In the 1970s, Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero was commissioned by the Lutheran Society to make a movie – the filmmaker’s only work-for-hire film in his entire career. That film, titled The Amusement Park, was a twisted meditation on ageism, and it was thought to be lost. But recently, Romero’s Amusement Park was rediscovered and remastered […]
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- 5/6/2021
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
This is going to be a great Summer for horror fans and Shudder. The horror streaming service have dropped their slate of original and exclusive films for June, July and August and they are all must see titles. Obviously, the debut of George A. Romero’s legendary “lost” film The Amusement Park on June 8th is going to be a big day for his fans. We shared with you yesterday that the horror flick Caveat will kick off the Summer season on June 3rd. And do you remember when a trailer for a Russian sci-fi horror flick about a hole in the ground kind of blew up for about twenty four hours before it got taken down? Yeah. Shudder has Superdeep premiering on June 17th....
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- 5/6/2021
- Screen Anarchy
"There's nothing outside!" "I'm going outside anyway..." Shudder has unveiled a killer trailer for the long lost George A. Romero film titled The Amusement Park, which is available for streaming this June on the streaming horror channel. This was initially filmed in 1973, but was never released or finished until now. "Though not in the horror genre it is George's most terrifying film," producer Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has said. "It has Romero's unique footprint all over it." 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 instead. It's described as "an allegory about the realities of growing old," which is a bit amusing considering Romero made this while in his thirties, some 44 years before he would pass away. This new 4K digital restoration was commissioned by the George A. Romero Foundation and carried out by IndieCollect.
- 5/6/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
It’s a great time to be a fan of the late horror icon George A. Romero. News broke at the start of the month that Romero’s widow, Suzanne, is planning to bring the filmmaker’s final zombie movie script “Twilight of the Dead” to life with a new director, and now comes Shudder’s release of the official trailer for Romero’s long lost 1973 feature, “The Amusement Park.” The film has been restored and is finally coming to streaming this summer, three years after author and Guillermo del Toro collaborator Daniel Kraus first announced the film had been discovered, and that he had seen a cut.
The official synopsis for “The Amusement Park” from Shudder reads: “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 instead. Shot by George A.
The official synopsis for “The Amusement Park” from Shudder reads: “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 instead. Shot by George A.
- 5/6/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Just a few days ago we learned that George A. Romero’s planned final entry into his zombie universe, Twilight of the Dead, will come to life under a new director based on the late horror master’s treatment. But first, this summer will bring the release of one of his long-lost films.
The Amusement Park, shot in 1973 for television but never released, has now been recently discovered and restored. Commissioned by the Lutheran Society with the new restoration backed by the George A. Romero Foundation and produced by Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, the Wally Cook-scripted 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.”
With the 60-minute film now set for a release on Shudder starting June 8, watch the trailer below via Bloody Disgusting.
The Amusement Park, shot in 1973 for television but never released, has now been recently discovered and restored. Commissioned by the Lutheran Society with the new restoration backed by the George A. Romero Foundation and produced by Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, the Wally Cook-scripted 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.”
With the 60-minute film now set for a release on Shudder starting June 8, watch the trailer below via Bloody Disgusting.
- 5/6/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
As part of Shudder's "Summer of Chills," they'll be adding Jakob's Wife, Kandisha, Caveat and other horror premieres to their horror streaming service, including George A. Romero's The Amusement Park! We have the official trailer for Romero's long-lost film below, along with a look at the full "Summer of Chills" lineup:
"New York, NY – May 6, 2021 – Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streamer for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today its “Summer of Chills” slate of twelve new original and exclusive films for June, July and August, including the anticipated debut of landmark horror director George A. Romero’s legendary “lost” film The Amusement Park on Tuesday, June 8. The robust summer lineup kicks off with Caveat, an eerie, slow-building, cat-and-mouse thriller, and continues with such marquee films as The Boy Behind the Door, Justin Powell and David Charbonier’s directorial debut; Jakob’s Wife, starring horror icon Barbara Crampton; and Kandisha,...
"New York, NY – May 6, 2021 – Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streamer for horror, thriller and the supernatural, announced today its “Summer of Chills” slate of twelve new original and exclusive films for June, July and August, including the anticipated debut of landmark horror director George A. Romero’s legendary “lost” film The Amusement Park on Tuesday, June 8. The robust summer lineup kicks off with Caveat, an eerie, slow-building, cat-and-mouse thriller, and continues with such marquee films as The Boy Behind the Door, Justin Powell and David Charbonier’s directorial debut; Jakob’s Wife, starring horror icon Barbara Crampton; and Kandisha,...
- 5/6/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Even though he passed away four years ago, we’re still unearthing work from George A. Romero’s vast career. This summer, his long-lost feature The Amusement Park will debut on Shudder (one of our most-anticipated films of the season) and now what was planned to be his final entry into his legendary zombie universe is getting new life.
THR reports that Twilight of the Dead is moving forward under the guidance of the late director’s widow Suzanne Romero. With a treatment initially scripted by George A. Romero and Paolo Zelati last decade, the latter writer enlisted Joe Knetter and Robert L. Lucas to assist with completing the script.
“I gave him my full blessing as long as I could be there every step of the way for it to remain true to George’s vision,” said Suzanne Romero. “We had a solid treatment and the beginning of the script.
THR reports that Twilight of the Dead is moving forward under the guidance of the late director’s widow Suzanne Romero. With a treatment initially scripted by George A. Romero and Paolo Zelati last decade, the latter writer enlisted Joe Knetter and Robert L. Lucas to assist with completing the script.
“I gave him my full blessing as long as I could be there every step of the way for it to remain true to George’s vision,” said Suzanne Romero. “We had a solid treatment and the beginning of the script.
- 5/2/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Fresh off the recent release of his poster for Shudder’s debut of George Romero’s “lost” film The Amusement Park, graphic designer Aleksander Walijewski has another new title utilizing a unique style that marries an old school Polish aesthetic with mainstream Hollywood gloss. It’s surely not going to be the last.
Our Father director Bradley Grant Smith hits the nail on the head when he tells us that, “Aleksander’s poster work appeals to me in general because he sees so deeply into each film’s psychology and then creates these revelatory, visual expansions of the film’s inner life—going way beyond a simple representation of the plot. One of the things I love about [his Our Father design] is how at a first, casual glance it almost looks like a Rorschach test, but then the faces start to come into focus [along with] the negative space between them. The more I look,...
Our Father director Bradley Grant Smith hits the nail on the head when he tells us that, “Aleksander’s poster work appeals to me in general because he sees so deeply into each film’s psychology and then creates these revelatory, visual expansions of the film’s inner life—going way beyond a simple representation of the plot. One of the things I love about [his Our Father design] is how at a first, casual glance it almost looks like a Rorschach test, but then the faces start to come into focus [along with] the negative space between them. The more I look,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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