Singer Gowan appears as the evil organist Organo at the hockey game. The Canadian singer has a song on the soundtrack of this film as well as WolfCop (2014).
The hockey cheerleaders wear horn-rimmed glasses with masking tape on them. This seems to be a reference to the Hanson Brothers in Slap Shot (1977).
Loup Garou or loup-garou actually means lycanthrope or werewolf in French.
Filmed in Lumsden, Saskatchewan.
Matthew Kennedy, Adam Brooks, and Conor Sweeney play the thugs dressed as Santa and his elves in the opening action scene. The three comprise Astron-6, a Winnipeg-based production company specializing in low-budget horror comedies such as this movie.
Kevin Smith: as Mayor Bubba Rich. His brief role came about while he was in Saskatchewan scouting possible locations for Moose Jaws.
Lowell Dean: as the man looking down at his phone near the camera shortly after Swallows gets hit in the head by the boom mic.