The film's estimated budget was around $150,000
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In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.. Director Mike Cheslik estimated that the mascot costumes cost around $10,000, and the crew bought all of the costumes online..
Referenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 940: Immaculate (2024)
After the Watson Beaver "faints," his mustache falls off & lands in the snow as he stands back up. He is wearing it again in the very next scene despite walking away from it without picking it up..
Creative and very entertaining
Jean Kayak and His Acme ApplejackWritten and produced by Wayne TewsEngineered and Co-Produced by Karl Landwehr. Its wild slapstick draws from Looney Tunes and silent movies, but it also feels highly original.
You even have Olivia Graves in a role reminiscent of Red Hot Riding Hood
It seems like it will wear thin, but the antics get funnier as it goes along, helped considerably by Cheslik's great sense of pace and use of misdirection. It's all "cartoon violence," but some of the deaths are delightfully grisly – and somehow acceptable, even though it's depicting the odious act of animal trapping.
