Description:Alfred Packer was a mountain guide and sole survivor of a party of pioneers that got lost in the mountains in winter. Accused and convicted of murdering and eating his travelling companions, he was to be executed by hanging.The movie begins at his trial, where he pleads his innocence to an unsympathetic audience. Only reporter Polly PAlfred Packer was a mountain guide and sole survivor of a party of pioneers that got lost in the mountains in winter. Accused and convicted of murdering and eating his travelling companions, he was to be executed by hanging.The movie begins at his trial, where he pleads his innocence to an unsympathetic audience. Only reporter Polly Pry will listen to his story, which is then related to the viewers in the form of flashbacks. As Packer and his gold-prospecting clients make their way through the forests and mountains, they encounter bemused Japanese Indians, an unimpressed group of mountain men and the brutal Rocky Mountain winter, all of which inspire the travellers to break out into song and dance.... (more)(less)
"a lighthearted and spirited modernday renovation of the gospel according to doubting thomas. what began as a game among friends and victims, the practice of eating someone else's flesh and blood dates back at least to the time of Jesus (0 B.C.) who reportedly offered his blood in a chalice of spiritual deathlessness to anyone prepared to pass through the cold flame of self-annihilation.
smells like salvation? smells like booooring. but add jazz hands + elton john, and i'm sooo going gay for"
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Horror Comedy - Updated Feb 2013
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