The film’s estimated budget was around $150,000
Narrative
In this 19th-century supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become the greatest fur trapper in North America by defeating hundreds of beavers. Director Mike Cheslik estimated that the mascot costumes cost around $10,000, and the crew purchased all of the costumes online.
Referenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 940: Immaculate (2024)
After Watson the beaver “passes out,” his mustache falls off and lands in the snow as he gets up. He wears it again in the next scene, although he walks away from it without picking it up.
Creative and highly entertaining
Jean Kayak and her Acme ApplejackWritten and produced by Wayne TewsConceived and co-produced by Karl Landwehr. The film is wild slapstick inspired by Looney Tunes and silent movies, but it’s also very original.
You even have Olivia Graves in a role reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood
It seems like the film is running out of steam, but the antics get funnier as it goes on, helped considerably by Cheslik’s great sense of pacing and use of diversion. It’s all “cartoon violence,” but some of the deaths are delightfully gruesome – and somehow acceptable, even though the film depicts the heinous act of trapping animals.