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Technically it’s one of the best films of 1975, but this surreal satire from George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) was never released outside of a single film festival screening at the time, and was thought lost for decades until a print resurfaced and was restored and released on the horror streamer Shudder.
At 54 minutes, the film is more of a curio than a “real movie”—commissioned by a Protestant church organization to highlight the grim realities of elder abuse, it marked the only time the director did work-for-hire—but it’s weirdly worthy of rediscovery. It explores the way many elderly people in the U.S. are forgotten and ignored through the metaphor of an old man’s increasingly distressing experiences at an amusement park, and it feels no less cutting or relevant nearly 50 years after it was made.
Where to stream: AMC+, Shudder
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