Its Terror Time Again Music by Tom Snow Lyrics by Glenn Leopold

1998 straight-to-video picture based on Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
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Directed past	Jim Stenstrum
Screenplay by	Glenn Leopold
Story by	Glenn Leopold Davis Doi
Based on	Scooby-Doo by Joe Carmine and Ken Spears
Produced by	Cos Anzilotti
Starring	Scott Innes Billy West Mary Kay Bergman Frank Welker B. J. Ward Adrienne Barbeau Tara Charendoff Cam Clarke Jim Cummings Mark Hamill Jennifer Leigh Warren Ed Gilbert
Edited by	Paul Douglas
Music past	Steven Bramson
Production company	Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Home Video
Release appointment	September 22, 1998 (1998-09-22)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United states of america
Language	English

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is a 1998 American direct-to-video animated mystery one-act horror picture show based on Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Sabbatum-morning cartoons. In the movie, Shaggy, Scooby, Fred, Velma, and Daphne reunite after a year-long hiatus from Mystery, Inc. to investigate a bayou island said to be haunted by the ghost of the pirate Morgan Moonscar. The film was directed past Jim Stenstrum, from a screenplay by Glenn Leopold.

Popularity for Scooby-Doo had grown in the 1990s due to reruns aired on Drawing Network. The aqueduct's parent company, Time Warner, suggested developing a straight-to-video (DTV) film on the property. The team at Hanna-Barbera consisted of many veteran artists and writers. Many of the original voice actors of the series were recast for the film, although Frank Welker returned to vocalization Fred Jones. It was also the outset of four Scooby-Doo direct-to-video films to be animated overseas by Japanese animation studio Mook Blitheness. Rock bands Third Eye Blind and Skycycle contribute to the soundtrack.

Zombie Island contains a darker tone than most Scooby-Doo productions, and is notable for containing real supernatural creatures rather than people in costumes. The film was released on September 22, 1998, and received acclaim from critics, who complimented its blitheness and story. The film is as well notable for being the first Scooby production featuring the entire gang (sans Scrappy-Doo) since The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries episode A Halloween Hassle at Dracula's Castle, which premiered on ABC on October 27, 1984. The film was aided by a $l million promotional campaign, and sponsorship deals with multiple companies. Sales of the film on VHS were loftier, and it became the first in a long-running series of DTV Scooby-Doo films.

2 decades later on the film's release, Warner Bros Blitheness adult a sequel, Return to Zombie Island, released in 2019.

Plot [edit]

The five members of Mystery, Inc. become their split ways after becoming bored of mystery solving considering culprits are always people in costumes. Daphne Blake, forth with Fred Jones, starts running a successful television series, determined to hunt down a existent ghost rather than a fake one. Fred contacts Velma Dinkley, Shaggy Rogers and his canis familiaris Scooby-Doo, and the entire gang is brought back together for Daphne's birthday. They commence on a route trip scouting haunted locations across the U.South. for Daphne's bear witness.

Subsequently encountering a lot of imitation monsters, the gang arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana, fed up by this time. They are invited past a young adult female named Lena Dupree to visit her workplace at Moonscar Isle, an island allegedly haunted past the ghost of the pirate Morgan Moonscar. Although skeptical, the gang decides to become with Lena. On the island, they meet Lena'due south employer Simone Lenoir, who lives in a big Southern home on a pepper plantation. They also meet the ferryman Jacques and Simone's gardener Fellow. Shaggy and Scooby come across the ghost of Moonscar, who becomes a reanimated corpse, and the gang gets several ghostly warnings to leave. Despite this, they stay overnight, nevertheless skeptical. Shaggy sees some other ghost, one of a Confederate colonel warning them to leave.

That night, Shaggy and Scooby are chased by a horde of zombies. Velma suspects Beau while Fred and Daphne capture a zombie. They believe it is a mask until Fred pulls its head off, revealing that the zombies are real. Equally the horde chases them, the gang gets split in the chaos and Daphne accidentally causes Fred to drop his video camera in the quicksand, losing movie evidence for their show. In a cavern, Shaggy and Scooby notice wax voodoo dolls resembling Fred, Velma, and Daphne. Playing with the dolls, they involuntarily control the gang'south deportment with the things they make the dolls do, leaving the gang confused. Shaggy and Scooby driblet the dolls and flee when they disturb a nest of bats.

The rest of the gang and Swain discover a secret passageway in the house. Lena tells them that the zombies dragged Simone away. The passageway leads to a secret bedchamber for voodoo rituals, where Velma confronts Lena nigh her prevarication: the footprints in the passageway were Simone's, as she had walked to the chamber as opposed to beingness dragged away. Afterwards trapping the gang with the voodoo dolls, Simone and Lena reveal themselves, along with Jacques, to be evil werecats. Simone tells them that 200 years ago, she and Lena were part of a grouping of settlers on the island who worshiped a cat god. When Moonscar and his crew invaded the island, they chased the settlers into the bayou, leading them to exist eaten alive by alligators, but Simone and Lena escaped the carnage. They prayed to their cat god to curse Moonscar. Their wish was granted and they were transformed into werecats. They killed the pirates, only later realized that invoking the cat god'south power had also cursed them, so every harvest moon, they lure and exploit all victims by draining their lives to preserve their immortality. Jacques became their ferryman to bring them more than victims as he wanted to accept immortality. The zombies are actually their previous victims who awaken every harvest moon and endeavour to scare people abroad in order to prevent them from suffering the same fate.

Shaggy and Scooby disrupt the werecats' draining ceremony. The gang costless themselves but the werecats environs them. However, it is too late; the time for the anniversary has passed. The werecats crumble into dust, allowing the zombies' souls to finally residual in peace. Swain reveals himself to be an undercover police officer who was sent to investigate the numerous disappearances on the island. Daphne asks Beau to guest-star on her show, and they all go out the island in the morn.

Vocalisation cast [edit]

• Scott Innes as Scooby-Doo
• Billy Due west as Shaggy Rogers
• Mary Kay Bergman equally Daphne Blake
• Frank Welker every bit Fred Jones, Simone Lenoir's Cats, Owl, Zombie
• B. J. Ward as Velma Dinkley
• Adrienne Barbeau equally Simone Lenoir
• Tara Potent every bit Lena Dupree (Credited as Tara Charendoff)
• Cam Clarke as Detective Beau Neville
• Jim Cummings as Jacques, Morgan Moonscar, Plantationer
• Marker Hamill every bit Snakebite Scruggs, Airport manager
• Jennifer Leigh Warren as Chris
• Ed Gilbert as Mr. Beeman

Production [edit]

Origins and story [edit]

The Scooby-Doo franchise, which past the fourth dimension of the film's release was nearing its 30-yr mark, had entered into a period of diminishing returns in the early on 1990s. After the decision of the 6th iteration of the series, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, the character became absent from Saturday-morning lineups. In 1991, Turner Dissemination System purchased Hanna-Barbera, the animation studio behind Scooby, largely to fill programming at a new, 24/7 cablevision channel centered on animated properties: Drawing Network.^[i] The advent of cable gave the franchise renewed popularity: rapidly, Scooby reruns attracted top ratings.^[ii] Zombie Isle was not the first attempt at a feature-length Scooby risk; several television films were produced in the late 1980s starring the grapheme, such as Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School. In 1996, Turner merged with Time Warner.^[3] Davis Doi, in charge at Hanna-Barbera, was tasked with developing projects based on the studio's existing property. Warner executives suggested Scooby, given that the belongings held a high Q Score, and proposed information technology could be a direct-to-video feature motion-picture show.^[4]

The team assembled, to work on the production were veterans of the animation business, and had virtually recently worked on SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron and The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.^[4] Screenwriter Glenn Leopold had been with the franchise since 1979's Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo. The picture was directed by Jim Stenstrum, who had worked on Scooby projects showtime in 1983 The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show. As the film was considered a one-off experiment by studio contumely, the coiffure worked with little oversight and complete artistic freedom. Doi and Leopold developed the film's story, with Leopold receiving sole credit for the screenplay.^[v] Much of the script is recycled from Leopold's script for the unfinished SWAT Kats episode, "The Expletive of Kataluna".^[6] Stenstrum and Doi suggested in early on story meetings that the monsters in the pic be real, (previous Scooby outings were about ever "bad guys" in safety masks) feeling it worked for a half-60 minutes television episode, but might grow boring over a characteristic length pic. Leopold disagreed, noting that throughout the franchise'southward history, it always remained a elementary, solvable mystery. Lance Falk, who worked as model coordinator on the film, suggested they combine both ideas.^{[half dozen]}

Casting [edit]

Casey Kasem was originally prepare to reprise his role as Shaggy, but Kasem, a vegetarian, had refused to voice Shaggy in a 1995 Burger King commercial and went on to demand that Shaggy also surrender eating meat in future productions.^[7] The creative team rejected this, as eating anything was a hallmark of the character. Additionally, product on Zombie Island had already begun, with the film featuring a scene with Shaggy eating crawfish. Shaggy was recast with phonation actor Baton West. Kasem was given a final-minute opportunity to fill the role and redub over West, only he once again refused.^[4] Radio personality Scott Innes voiced Scooby-Doo, every bit Don Messick, the grapheme'south original voice actor, retired in 1996 and died in 1997; Zombie Island was dedicated to his memory. Heather Northward was fix to reprise her role every bit Daphne, only after a mean solar day of recording, Mary Kay Bergman replaced her, while B.J. Ward, who played Velma in a Johnny Bravo crossover episode, reprised her role for this film.

Frank Welker is the simply actor from the original series to reprise his part, equally Fred Jones. He had initially worried that the producers would supplant him equally well, given that the producers believed his phonation had gone downward an octave. The voice managing director kept requesting Welker perform the voice at a higher pitch. Welker insisted his voice was the same, as Fred's vocalization is shut to his natural speaking voice. The team went back and viewed early Scooby-Doo episodes and found that Welker's impression was more than or less the same. Bob Miller, of Animation Earth Network, suggested that the reruns of Scooby-Doo aired on Drawing Network possibly gave them a faux idea of the character's voice, equally the episodes were typically time-compressed (or sped-up) to allow more room for commercials, thus giving all of the show'due south soundtrack a college pitch.^[eight]

Animation [edit]

Japanese animation studio Mook Blitheness were contracted to work on the motion picture; Doi had a relationship with the team at Mook as they had previously collaborated on Swat Kats and Jonny Quest. Hiroshi Aoyama and Kazumi Fukushima directed the overseas blitheness, but are not credited on the picture. The moving picture was blithe and is presented in standard 1.33:i total frame format.^[5] The team were immune more time to work on the movie, as there was no real set schedule—just delivery to the home video department upon completion. The American coiffure re-designed the series cast for the film, giving them a fashion update. The squad felt Fred and Daphne, with their ascots and Fred'south bell-bottoms, felt very dated to the 60'south (although the original designs were used in the opening scene). They briefly changed Shaggy's shirt color to red and gave him sneakers, though they quickly relented, as they viewed his original outfit as more timeless.^[half-dozen]

The group were trusted by the studio'due south management as they had worked together for a long fourth dimension, and all involved on the film had a existent passion for the projection. Drew Gentle was the primary groundwork designer for the project, with Falk contributing to the pic's colour fundamental. Occasionally, the crew would hire freelance artists to contribute to coincident designs. In add-on, the group enlisted the assist of Iwao Takamoto, the original designer of Scooby-Doo, still on salary at Hanna-Barbera, for advising on scenes. Takamoto chosen the film "a practiced solid mystery", and storyboarded several sequences of coaction between Shaggy and Scooby.^[nine]

Music [edit]

Composer Steven Bramson, who is known for Tiny Toon Adventures, JAG and the Lost in Space picture, scored and conducted the moving picture. The soundtrack for the film features three songs equanimous specifically for the film. "The Ghost Is Here" and "It's Terror Fourth dimension Again", both written by Glenn Leopold, were performed past Skycycle. The championship track, "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!", was performed past 3rd Eye Blind.

All lyrics are written past Glenn Leopold; all music is composed by Tom Snow, except track 1 written past David Mook and Ben Raleigh.

No.	Title	Performer(due south)	Length
i.	"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"	Third Centre Blind
2.	"The Ghost Is Here"	Skycycle
3.	"Information technology'due south Terror Fourth dimension Once again"	Skycycle

Release [edit]

Originally, the film was planned to exist released theatrically, but when Warner Bros noticed the strong marketplace on home media, particularly their successful directly-to-video animated Batman films, it was later decided to release it on VHS on September 22, 1998, through Warner Abode Video.^{[10] [11]} Because of the cost of production, the tape retailed at $19.95, which was college than other direct-to-video titles of that era.^[12] Sales for the picture show exceeded the studio's expectations, according to a 1999 Billboard article.^[13] It was released on DVD on March 6, 2001, and afterward re-released in 2008 as a double-feature on DVD alongside the third directly-to-video Scooby picture show, Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000).^[14]

The moving-picture show was aided by a reportedly $50 million promotional button, as advertisers believed the grapheme's iconic nature would generate stiff sales, and deserved "equal visibility to a theatrical release."^[15] Tie-ins included the Campbell Soup Company,^[16] SpaghettiOs,^[17] i-800-COLLECT, Wendy's, LEGO, and Cartoon Network,^[15] who debuted the film on television on October 31, 1998, after a month themed subsequently the serial.^{[eighteen] [19]} It was also promoted as part of the network'southward "Wacky Racing" sponsorship bargain with Melling Racing in 1998, as the third of 4 paint schemes featured on the NASCAR Winston Cup Serial #ix Ford Taurus driven by then-rookie Jerry Nadeau. The paint scheme debuted at Richmond International Raceway in the Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400 on September 12, 1998, and was featured on the car through the Dura Lube Kmart 500 at Phoenix International Raceway on October 25, 1998, for a total of seven races out of the thirty-3 race schedule.^[20] The promotional push button was, at the time, the biggest marketing back up in Warner Bros. Family unit Amusement's history.^[xv]

Reception [edit]

The film received positive reviews from critics, and currently holds a "Fresh" rating of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.^[21] Donald Liebenson of the Chicago Tribune described the moving picture equally "ambitious" and calls it "a nostalgic hoot [that] resurrects all the touchstones of the original cartoons."^[22] Entertainment Weekly 'southward Joe Neumaier praised the film every bit "Fast, fun, and filled with knowing winks, the mystery honors the show'southward love structure, but writ large."^[23] A 1998 New York Times article by Peter Thou. Nichols complimented the flick as "well-made."^[12] Lynne Heffley at the Los Angeles Times called the moving picture "more entertaining than you lot'd wait, despite the familiar Saturday morning-type animation."^[24]

Later assessments of the motion picture have been similarly positive. Michael Mallory at the Los Angeles Times credited it and its subsequent features for "[spinning] the characters into more modern treatments of action and horror, and toyed with [a] self-spoofing quality."^[25]

In 2011-12, British comedian Stewart Lee defended an extensive section of his alive bear witness Carpet Remnant Earth to the 'jungle canyon rope bridges' in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island,^[26] linking what he described as the parlous state of such bridges with the austerity government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.^[27]

Sequel [edit]

A straight sequel, titled Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island, had its world premiere at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, 2019, followed by a digital release on September 3, 2019, and a DVD release on October i, 2019.^[28]

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External links [edit]

• Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island at IMDb
• Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island at AllMovie

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