39/15
The estimated budget for the film was around $150,000
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 the mascot costumes cost around $10,000 and the crew purchased all the costumes online.
Referenced in Film Junk Podcast: Episode 940: Immaculate (2024)
After Watson Beaver “fains”, his mustache falls off & lands in the snow & stands up. He wears it again in the next scene despite walking away from it without picking it up.
Creative and highly entertaining
Jean Kayak and His Acme Applejack Written & Produced by Wayne Tews Designed & Co-Produced by Karl Landwehr. Its wild slapstick draws inspiration from Looney Tunes and silent films, but it also feels highly original.
You even get Olivia Graves in a role reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood
It feels like it will wear thin, but the antics get funnier as it goes along, helped considerably by Cheslik’s great sense of pacing and use of misdirection. It’s all “cartoon violence,” he says, but some of the kills are delightfully gruesome and somehow acceptable, even though they depict the odious act of trapping animals.