The Amusement Park will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 13 via RLJE Films. Directed by master of horror George A. Romero, it’s streaming exclusively on Shudder.
Intended to be an educational film about elder abuse and ageism, it plays more like a psychological horror film. It premiered in 1975 but was lost until its release in 2019. Wally Cook wrote the script. Lincoln Maazel stars.
The Amusement Park has been restored in 4K by IndieCollect and the George A. Romero Foundation. Special features are listed below, where you’ll also find the trailer.
The Syrian Oil Ministry has accused the US occupying forces of stealing 66,000 barrels a day of the country’s crude oil, which amounts to around 83 percent of Syria’s total daily oil production.
“You can’t grow a lawn or even a garden, there’s a drought” *owns a mansion and multiple-acre property covered in nothing but grass with a massive pool that’s almost never swam in in the backyard*
“you should drive less, for the planet and the economy” *owns a private jet or flies first class all over the world*
“eat less / eat less meat!” *they can afford expensive high quality all-vegetable meals prepared by a personal chef*
And then it’s not just their consumption habits. They own the companies that sell us the poison they’ve made us reliant on. “Drive less” my workplace is 13 miles from my home and there’s no public transit. “There’s a drought, use less water” I literally only use water for drinking, cooking, showering, and flushing the toilet. “Eat less” i work a physically demanding job that literally requires something like a 3k+ daily Calorie intake just to not starve. “Eat less meat” I would if I had the energy and money to prepare salads. I would if meat weren’t artificially cheap and fresh vegetables weren’t artificially expensive. I would if I had the energy to cook grain-heavy meals.
We’re all fucking exhausted, we’re all beaten down and tired, and we don’t have the material control over the world that the rich do. And they tell us to use less when we’re already using the bare minimum necessary for survival, or the smallest measure of comfort.
What do these people think is gonna happen? People will just let the trash and shit pile up and live in filth rather than do a bit of cleaning? No one’s paying you to take your own trash out or clean your own bathroom, but that gets done, doesn’t it? Because you’d rather do a bit of cleaning now and then than wade through garbage. Why wouldn’t that work on a community scale?
I’ll give you the answer: it does work on a community scale. In anarchist and stateless societies today, in pre-capitalist societies throughout history, etc, etc. Turns out, people prefer to keep their environments clean, and even in the worst case scenario where what’s proposed in the post above isn’t implemented or doesn’t work out or whatever, we’re not going to devolve into garbage creatures
And you’re asking me, who does the dishes after the revolution? Well, I do my own dishes now, I’ll do my own dishes then. And it’s always the ones who don’t who ask that fucking question.
– Wingnut Dishwashers Union, Jesus Does The Dishes
Not just this but like. If for whatever reason we can’t share the burden and still need professional janitors and such, we can make the jobs more than worthwhile. Provide good PPE, provide showers that can wash off the filth from the PPE before it’s taken off, provide good showers that workers can use at the close of shift, and build a culture that treats them the way they should be treated: as people fulfilling an essential role for our society to continue to function.
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