- A fever-dream of our collective heritage.
- A staple of ‘80s Canadian classroom flashbacks.
- Skippy product placement.
- Second entry in the Tales for All series, following The Dog Who Stopped the War.
- Soundtrack features the first English-language recording of a young Céline Dion.
- Eschews the typical dead-parent trope by having a parent away for most of the film to tending to their dead parent’s affairs.
- Fails to normalize baldness.
- Weapons-grade child kidnapping with additional child labour doesn’t seem to bother the family or community as expected.
- Quebequois (and Australian) in ways I will never know.
- Unlocks pubescent children’s fascination with abandoned buildings and body hair.
- Dubious body modification recipes from ghosts.
- More here and here.
🥜