Comments on: "Cannibal! The Musical," Matt and Trey's musical before "Book of Mormon" (video)

By: Stephen Marts

Stephen Marts — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:51:00 +0000

That is kind of what I suspected. Thanks for the info, chief.

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 14:49:00 +0000

“Ostensibly they were protesting the fact that someone was making light of murder and cannibalism through a tasteless movie musical” They never heard of Sweeney Todd?

By: Buddy Bradley

Buddy Bradley — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 14:05:00 +0000

Yup, I think that’s him at 15:00 in the link above.

By: Buddy Bradley

Buddy Bradley — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 13:56:00 +0000

My brother went to film school with Matt and Trey and has a small part in this film in the finale at the end.

A little-known(?) fact about Cannibal! courtesy of my brother: when it was released, Matt and Trey got the cast back together to protest it at some theater/film festival with signs and everything, a la “Life of Brian”. Ostensibly they were protesting the fact that someone was making light of murder and cannibalism through a tasteless movie musical, but really it was just to get publicity for the film. I always thought that was a brilliant PR move, although it didn’t get the movie any real traction until after the success of “South Park.”

Anyway, I also loved the fact that my brother is both in the movie and later protested its release!

By: Noddy Ninetythree

Noddy Ninetythree — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:49:00 +0000

rather than edit (or using proper english in the first place) i decided to wait for you to show… and you didn’t disappoint.

By: EeyoreX

EeyoreX — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:23:00 +0000

The trailer was actually produced and shot before the movie, as a fun school project. Then they used it as a “pitch reel” to raise funding for the actual movie, wich had partly different casting.

By: gt bear

gt bear — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:24:00 +0000

i watched about a minute of this on hulu earlier today. i used to spend time at the alferd packer grill in the 80s.

By: yupgiboy

yupgiboy — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 04:05:00 +0000

Internationally, it’s still “Alferd Packer: The Musical”. I have a British VHS with that title that has the missing extra song snippet.

By: yupgiboy

yupgiboy — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 04:03:00 +0000

I think auto-correct mistakenly put “awful” next to “awesome” in your post. There is nothing remotely awful about this movie.

By: Andy Reilly

Andy Reilly — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 04:02:00 +0000

I first found out about this film year ago, because a coworker and his family all loved it and used to sing the songs. Loved it. Favorite part: the “Indians” doing Tai Chi in the background.

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 04:01:00 +0000

“The sky is blue and all the leaves are green.

The sun’s as warm as a baked potato.

I think I know precisely what I mean,

When I say it’s a shpadoinkle day.”

My favorite part is “Lets build a snowman.” A really great indie film.

By: Quiet Wyatt

Quiet Wyatt — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 03:23:00 +0000

You’re DOOMED!

Doomed!

…doomed.

((…doomed…))

By: Stephen Marts

Stephen Marts — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 03:21:00 +0000

Hold on. Wait a second.

Can someone please explain that trailer to me? I’ve been watching this movie at least once a year for the last fifteen years and I have never seen a man in a sombrero or a mustache on Matt Stone’s character.

By: edgore

edgore — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 03:15:00 +0000

I want to see a commentary track, someday.

By: Wayne Waterman

Wayne Waterman — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 02:32:00 +0000

Excellent. I was a very minor grip on this and one of the few things I remember vividly was the tooth.
Well done sir

By: Grey Eyed Man of Destiny

Grey Eyed Man of Destiny — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 01:55:00 +0000

People take serious things seriously, and not so serious things not so seriously. I don’t know what any of this has to do with Cannibal!

By: Kristians Šics

Kristians Šics — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 01:41:00 +0000

When I still had a mobile phone “snowman” was my ringtone. Well… 4 years ago.

By: Spencer Cross

Spencer Cross — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:42:00 +0000

I grew up in Denver. I went to college in Boulder from 92-97 while this was being produced. I remember seeing it promoted on campus and around town frequently. At the same time, I ate at or studied in the seating area just outside of the aforementioned Alferd Packer Grill in the UMC (i.e., student union) nearly every day.

And I’m only just now, at age 38, realizing that it’s “Alferd” and not “Alfred.”

By: balexander667

balexander667 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 23:18:00 +0000

Sort of funny. The instant you had a post about troma having movies on YouTube I immediatly tracked down Cannibal! and posted a link on facey-space. If anyone ever has a chance, the DVD for Cannibal! has an audio commentary where the cast progressively gets more drunk through the movie and the commentary stops for a short period because they have have to make a run to the liquor store :)

By: Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 21:03:00 +0000

What do you mean? Didn’t you see all those tipis?

By: limbclock

limbclock — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 19:00:00 +0000

I’m amazed that it took BoingBoing this long to find out about Troma uploading a lot of their old movies on YouTube.

By: fenester

fenester — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:48:00 +0000

This film also features a cameo by Stan Brakhage as the father of one of the main characters. Brakhage was a key player in 20th century American experimental film. (Check out Dog Star Man!) He was a professor at CU Boulder when Matt and Trey were going to school there.

By: ahecht

ahecht — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:16:00 +0000

Proto-Cartman at 18:39? Oh, and in case people didn't know, Juan Schwartz is a pseudonym for Trey Parker, who didn't want to see his name appear so many times in the credits.

By: ChuckTV

ChuckTV — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:00:00 +0000

I wish Troma would upload some of their Al Adamson films.

By: Rissa The Tree!

Rissa The Tree! — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:38:00 +0000

Shpdoinkle!

By: mindysan33

mindysan33 — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:08:00 +0000

We can make him tall… or we can make him not so tall.

By: NoahScalin

NoahScalin — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:57:00 +0000

You might be amused to know that not only did I give that film it’s title (it arrived at Troma while I was working there titled “Alferd Packer: The Musical”, but I also designed the toothy logo, that’s used on the poster!

By: Mitchell Glaser

Mitchell Glaser — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:57:00 +0000

It's funny how people react to things like this. Last month there was a reading of a musical I wrote the lyrics to called Manson's Girls. It's a serious view of what turns a fairly normal person into a murderous cult member. The local ABC network (and the L.A. Times) did a short feature on it which played on the 11 o'clock news. The next day, on ABC's Facebook page, there were over 400 comments, overwhelmingly negative, including death threats. None of the people had actually seen the reading, mind you. Meanwhile, Sondheim's Assassins, which takes a much more cavalier look at presidential assassins (including Squeaky Fromme) was playing in town without so much as a peep of response.

By: Noddy Ninetythree

Noddy Ninetythree — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:48:00 +0000

by far the best commentary track i’ve ever seen.

By: joeposts

joeposts — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:43:00 +0000

Brilliant casting when it came to the Native Americans. Very sensitive portrayal!