[tps_title]3. Cannibal! The Musical (1993)[/tps_title]
Dir. Trey Parker
Made while still students at the University of Colorado at Boulder for about $75,000, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Cannibal! The Musical is an irreverent take on the true story of Alferd Packer, the first American to ever be convicted of cannibalism, who supposedly killed and/or consumed the other members of his travel party to the Colorado Territory during the winter of 1873-1874. Predicting the surreal, politically incorrect humor that would come to define their subsequent animated program South Park, the film plays fast and loose with history, having Packer and his fellow travelers encounter a country music singing giant, a tribe of Japanese Native Americans, and a trio of savage yet musically inclined trappers. Adding to the bizarre nature of the film is the fact that many of the historical details concerning Packer’s case are curiously accurate, including lines during the trial scenes that were taken verbatim from the historical trial.
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