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Apple Tree has a record amount of Halloween screenings this year, 12 in total, and a couple of wins and nominations to boot. So, big(ger) chance we’re playing in a theater near you! Award for… classified (more details soon!) at Midwest Horror Fest in Logansport, Indiana, USA (21-22 oct). Woohoo! Award …
Flawless stop-motion, great art-work and a twisted sense of humour embedded in horror’s history.
Weird Wednesday 0711
Quality, humor and exuberance.
Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival
I would love to see Under The Apple Tree developed into a feature film.
Atomic Age Renegades
The attention to detail throughout the film is exquisite, it’s beautifully crafted and the story is brilliant and ingenious.
Atomic Age Renegades
A brilliant stop-animated short giving a new spin on the zombie theme.
South African HorrorFest
There was a young woman of Ryde who ate too many apples and died. The apples fermented inside the lamented and made cider inside her inside.
18 minutes of macabre delight, this short should be every child’s first horror experience
The Ink and Code

In 2009 Anita van Dalen (producer) and Erik van Schaaik (writer/director) made a long trip through Alaska, thoroughly falling in love with this beautiful country. Needless to say it’s a thrill to be selected for the Anchorage International Film Festival 2016! Under The Apple Tree is a film worth freezing for! December …
A film worth freezing for.
Anchorage International Film Festival, Alaska, USA

Apple tree has picked up the award for Best Director and the award for Best Short at Eerie Horror Film Festival 2016 in the USofA! Needless to say we are bloody grateful, cutthroat happy, hard gore overwhelmed and stick-it-in-and-break-it-off humbled by this recognition. Wish we could have been there. Thank you very much! …
Quality storytelling, originality and personality of characters, great animation performance.
Stop Motion Montreal
Imagine the Gruffalo with Zombies.
Grimm Up North
The excellently told story is peppered with morbid humor, its archaic English voice-overs entirely in rhyme.
Netherlands Film Festival
One of the most well-crafted stop-motion films we’ve seen. Deeply funny.
Skwigly Animation Magazine

77,000 people, one of the largest pop culture conventions in the world, and yet ANOTHER WIN for farmers, priests and worms! Under the Apple Tree had been awarded the FIRST PRIZE ANIMATED FANTASY at the 2016 Dragon Con Independent Short Film Festival Atlanta (USA). Thank you very much, dear Dragon Conmen, and a big …
Griezelig, geestig en met grote liefde voor het horrorgenre gemaakt.
Trouw

Friday, October 2, 2015 Under The Apple Tree was honored with the prestigious Golden Calf award for Best Short Film at the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF). Director Erik van Schaaik was welcomed to the stage by two of his most esteemed colleagues, Oscar nominees Marieke Blaauw and Joris Oprins, to …

This week we successfully finished our crowdfunding campaign, we wrapped shooting in Holland, we also wrapped in Belgium and we’re ready for post-production. Thank’s a million to all our supporters, funders, likers and cider-enthusiasts! Cheers! Here’s the small Belgium crew at Beast Animation, and the larger Dutch crew at Pedri …

Dear (forthcoming) funder, Just a few days left shooting our movie in Holland and Belgium. What a race! Frame by frame we are nearing the finish. Over the last months some of our puppets have sustained some injuries. Our protagonist Aber underwent heavy treatment; he’s doing fine now. Other characters …