In 1992 It shows violent combat royalists between Frosti Snow Man and Jesus Christ, as a quartet of foul youth. It has led Parker and Stone to collect a 3-minute live time, a false trailer for Joke-flick called "Alferd Packer: Music". Alferd Packer, as many may know, is one of only four people in American history to be convicted of a crime of cannibalism. He admitted that he had to eat his comrades to survive while they were lost in the mountains of Colorado in 1874. "Alferd Packer: Music" was a glorious tasting riff for Packer crimes.

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The reactions of the false trailer were so positive that Parker and Stone were inspired to raise a modest amount of money - only $ 125,000 - and make a real feature of it. Parker wrote, directed and starred in the movie, songs with Rich Sanders. Stone co-gums and produce. Alfer Packer was shot in the real hills and parks of Colorado over several weekends and during the Parker's spring break. The scenes in the courtroom, for some authenticity, were shot in the true courtroom where Packer was tried in 1873. The old Western sets were actually just buildings in the OEO, Western theme park in City City, Colorado. Parker and Stone didn't ask for much.

The finished version of "Alferd Packer: Music" debuted in Boulder, Colorado, Halloween in 1993. Finally, Parker and Stone brought their finished movie to The notorious newu jerseyers whisper houses trimmingand finally got a semi-wide distribution in 1996. She was re -entitled "Cannibal! Music".

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It's wild and cheap ... and it's really great.

Although "cannibal! The musical" focuses on Alfer Packer, true cannibalism is kept at a disappointing minimum. The film really opened up with a dramatic "recreation" of Packer's cannibalism, as provided by a prosecutor, and the audience is seen by Packer (Parker, credited as Juan Schwartz) is pleased to climb a series of screaming, victims of bleeding. Legitimately attractive music numbers are noticeable, including "Oh, how beautiful morning"-as a song "Spadolink". Spadolink's introductory riff was eventually used as music for the vanity card of Parker and Stone's production company, Braniff. You can also find yourself humiliating the awkward "Let's build a snowman" on the exit, revealing that it is a superior song "Do you want to build a snowman?" From "frozen".

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There is also an impetus for bitterness of "cannibal!" That Parker admitted he was quite intentional. Parker recently broke up with his fiancé who discovered an affair that had had shortly before the date of the planned wedding. Parker decided to name the horse of Alfer Packer Lian after her (and Cartman's mother's image at South Park). There were several conversations about how Alferd was about Lovebuben in his horse and how the horse was now unfair by running away with another driver. Alferd couldn't believe it. Parker talks about his breakup of the DVD -the film's song (invoiced as "a drunk director's comment"), which ends abruptly when he becomes too drunk and decides to leave the recording studio.

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"Cannibal! Music" probably collected the tram in 1996 because Matt Stone and Trey Parker reached an underground level thanks to their reductions in 1995 at the "Spirit of Christmas". Thanks to that short, Stone and Parker were now small celebrities, and the tram was wise to deal with their new status.

For those of us who were at college in the mid-1990s, we remember the rise of the "Christmas spirit" well, as it was one of the earliest video shorts to be replaced online. The animated short since 1995 was (relatively weaker than the 1992 version, but just like crunchy, and was now characterized by a struggle between Santa Claus and Jesus. "Spirit of Christmas" went through Hollywood on the bouts for the buttleg vhs of some big starsvars (Including the George Clooney George), and allow Stone and Parker to set it as a series. South Park collected Comedy Central in 1996 and first aired in 1997. The rest is history.

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Initially, the tram was not distributed "cannibal!" Very far and widely, but the company gave Parker the film a huge pressure on VHS and DVD when South Park began to air. The proliferation of new home video editions enabled "cannibal!" Finally be discovered by a cult audience, mostly college children, who would come together to look in groups. The film's prints began to make circles on the midnight film circuit, and became a legitimate underground hit. College students have begun adjusting the film on stage again, and small unauthorized productions have begun to be regularly performed. It is difficult to follow the real gross of the film, but it can be assumed to earn its $ 125,000 budget.

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Is "cannibal!" Great art? Not true. It is cheap and jejune, relying on sophorical humor. Like many former generation comedies, some of her fungi get older. But the film provides a rush of surfing that, I think, many children in college yearn. It is still there, now available to the Premier Video and Peacock. Definitely worth a look.