Cannibal! The Musical (1996)
Comedy, Western, Thriller • 1h 37m
Director: Trey Parker
Cast: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar, Ian Hardin, Jon Hegel, Masao Maki, Robert Muratore, Toddy Walters, Jason McHugh, Stan Brakhage, Randy Parker, Stephen Blackpool, Dan Brother, Duster, Brad Gordon, Dave Hardin, Edward Henwood, Andrew Kemler, Steve Jackson, Jessica James Kelly, Martin Leeper, Dirk Martin, Joe McHugh, Carter Smith, Aubrey Strafferd, Edith Swanson, Cole Taylor, Mark Welby, Don Yannacito, Junichi, Tomomi, Kevin Allen, Liane Adamo, Jerry Aronson, Chris Graves, Kimberly Kidder, Brody McHugh, Tom Parkin, Phil Solomon
Best video & English-friendly release
UK Refuse Films or US Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray
Both releases have two presentations: sourced from the original Betacam master tapes, and another that uses a filmout of the tapes.
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About the film
Heading through Colorado Territory in search of gold and women, Alferd Packer and his group of bemused companions find themselves lost, starving and musically inspired by the obstacles they confront along the way, including a die-hard Confederate cyclops, a trio of surly trappers, a tribe of Japanese-speaking "Indians," and ultimately, each other.
- Alternative Titles
- Alferd Packer: The Musical, Cannibal! O Musical
Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray coming November 27
Director: Michael Mann
Theatrical/Director's Cut: Shout! Factory Blu-ray
Hybrid Theatrical Cut: Anchor Bay "Theatrical" DVD
Final Cut: upcoming UK StudioCanal Final Cut 4K Blu-ray
UK StudioCanal Final Cut 4K Blu-ray and US Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray with Theatrical and Hybrid cuts
Director: Robert Altman
Cinematrographe's HDR grading is overcooked, which is a known VinSyn tendency. Additionally, their booklet mis-credits the encode to FiM.
YMMV, but for some, the included BD encoded by Marcus Johnson—ironically may make for a more pleasing experience.
Director: Jonathan Demme
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
FiM are mistakenly credited, one of the four known instances of this for a Cinématographe title (the other three being Thieves Like Us, Who Killed Teddy Bear?, and The Gambler). 4K encode was done by Vital Passenger. https://vitalpassenger.com/our-work
Director: Lam Nai-choi
88 Films UK or Vinegar Syndrome US Blu-ray (preference)
Different color gradings, 88 Films disc is encoded by FiM but Vinegar Syndrome encode (by Marcus Johnson) is more than robust
Vinegar Syndrome potentially has better audio than 88 Films, due to VinSyn possibly having EQ'd the audio mix after Fortune Star scanned the track in a way that makes it sound too hot, whereas 88 left it alone without addressing that issue. However, no direct comparisons exist
Director: Hal Needham
2026 Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray, 2025 Umbrella 4K Blu-ray
Vinegar Syndrome 4K Blu-ray see caps
For Blu-ray, UK Second Sight is better than Kino Lorber Blu-ray
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Richard Rush
> Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray (FiM encode on Radiance compared to Duplitech encode on Shout! Factory)
Director: Leo McCarey
Directors: Allison Anders & Alexandre Rockwell & Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino
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Director: Roman Polanski
Director: Todd Solondz
1999 R1 Trimark DVD
The Criterion 4K Blu-ray has audio that, despite being in a lossless codec, is extremely lossily compressed akin to an MP3.
Director: Mike Nichols
StudioCanal 4K caps.Criterion Blu-ray better encode than StudioCanal Blu-ray.
Director: Mike Cheslik
Director: Hal Ashby
See caps https://slow.pics/c/lVdZaG0W
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