John Carpenter Introduces George A. Romero’s ‘The Amusement Park’: The Graphic Novel! [Exclusive]

A hallucinatory nightmare from a master of horror, George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park is a once-lost PSA on age discrimination that Romero made early in his career, and it wasn’t until 2021 that the film was actually unearthed and released to the public. Now, The Amusement Park has been turned into a graphic novel by Storm King Comics!

Storm King Comics has released John Carpenter Presents George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park, an all-new artistic interpretation of the unique film that’s NOW AVAILABLE for purchase online, at comic book stores, and at book sellers!

Long thought to be lost, and originally conceived as a public service announcement, The Amusement Park is a surreal, haunting commentary on ageism and society’s treatment of the elderly, wrapped in Romero’s signature horror style. The George A. Romero Foundation, which is dedicated to honoring the life and preserving Romero’s work, restored the film as one of its first projects, and discovered the result met with widespread critical acclaim.

As critics and audiences pored through the myriad of images and meanings found in The Amusement Park, the Foundation and its artist-in-residence, illustrator Ryan Carr, began working on adapting the film in a novel way—a graphic novel way. Along with writer Jeff Whitehead, a visually stunning interpretation of the film came to life on the page.

John Carpenter introduces George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park in a Bloody Disgusting exclusive video that you can watch below. Check it out and grab your copy now!

“George was a master storyteller. I loved his work,” Carpenter reflects. “The Amusement Park is a unique departure for George. Unlike the movies he generally made. But a very good one. This is one that deals directly with fear of dying. Fear of getting old. Fear of being lost.”

In John Carpenter Presents George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park, an impatient businessman in his 20s meets an elderly man who spins a fantastic tale about a long-gone amusement park. As the conversation continues, the younger man is disturbed to learn the story of an elderly man eager to recapture the memories of youth.

Instead of pleasant memories, however, this trip to the amusement park becomes a surreal microcosm of aging and its inherent challenges as bodies and minds begin to break down. The old man finds himself abused, pushed into a horrifying series of attractions that mimic the later stages of life. Increasingly battered both mentally and physically, the man realizes he is trapped in a loop, force to relive the harrowing experience over and over. And the young man soon discovers that he and the old man have much more in common than they suspect.