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"All the trees begin to moan
And the monsters grunt and groan
Rotting faces full of slime
Don't yous know it'southward terror fourth dimension?
And information technology'due south terror time again
They've got you running through the night
Yep, information technology's terror time once more
Oh, you just might die of fright!
Information technology'southward a terrifying fourth dimension!"

— "Information technology'southward Terror Time Again" by Skycycle

In 1997, the Scooby-Doo franchise seemed to have run its course. It had been 6 years since A Pup Named Scooby-Doo was cancelled, the only sign of life in the franchise being a made-for-Television set-movie in 1994 called Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights in which Scooby barely appeared, and the always-present reruns of previous series. Then, trailers on VHS tapes of several Warner Bros. family films began to circulate. It had sleek animation, dark colors, and featured a seemingly dark and potentially scary movie, and information technology featured Scooby-Doo and Shaggy running for their lives.

With a journey into relatively mature writing by Glenn Leopold, Zombie Isle marked a high point in the Scooby-Doo franchise and a venture in the opposite direction most Scooby-Doo movies took. Directed by Jim Stenstrum and released on September 22, 1998, the film is animated with a more nighttime and realistic feel to it, and featured a somewhat cynical/mature wait at what happened to Mystery Inc. later their adventures were done, which would be touched on over again in The Picture show, but with less success. Characters were more fleshed out and three-dimensional, especially the newly empowered Daphne. The popular songs of past cartoons gave mode to Alternative and Metal music. The story appealed to older viewers with death as part of the backstory, and the finish result for the gang if they didn't win. note Although the back cover mentioned that they exercise make it out alive. And there was no contrived story with a guy in a mask, there were real zombies.

The picture's success led to the cosmos of three more direct-to-video movies roofing mysteries Scooby and the gang would solve equally adults, starting with Scooby-Doo! and the Witch'south Ghost. The success of those acquired a wholesale revival of the franchise, culminating in a live-action film and the first new Tv series in over a decade, What'due south New, Scooby-Doo?. The Straight-to-Video movies would also keep, even if the blitheness quality was non often upward to the high standards prepare by Zombie Island.

Production started at Hanna-Barbera, but information technology was completed by its then-new parent visitor, Warner Bros. Animation after the buyout. WB has produced all subsequent Scooby-Doo films.

The movie starts with Fred inviting Daphne, Scooby, Shaggy, and Velma to a long-awaited Mystery Inc. reunion, held in honor of Daphne's birthday. The 5 of them travel to New Orleans in order to observe existent monsters to hash out on Daphne's talk show. After effortlessly exposing several creature impostors, the gang accepts an offer to visit Moonscar Isle. The island is home to a French chili pepper plantation owner named Simone Lenoir, and has become the site of several disappearances over the years. While there, our heroes grapple with zombies and voodoo, death becomes a real threat, and the adventure grows legitimately dark and scary. Information technology remains one of the darkest and most dramatic installments in the entire franchise, with only the possible exception of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and Scooby Apocalypse matching it or coming close.

Zombie Island is also notable for having the outset permanent shakeup of the franchise's vocal bandage. ± Prior to this, the only master graphic symbol to have been permanently recast since Where Are Y'all concluded in 1970 had been Velma (although A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, being a Spinoff Babies series, necessarily replaced the unabridged voice cast except for Shaggy and Scooby). Don Messick, Scooby-Doo's long-fourth dimension vocalization, retired in 1996 and died in 1997 before long before recording could begin – the motion picture is dedicated to his memory; Scooby himself is played by Scott Innes instead. Casey Kasem, who had played Shaggy in every incarnation of the franchise upwards to this indicate, declined to reprise his function here after refusing to phonation the character in a Burger King commercial (though he would return 4 years later after he successfully fought for the character to be a vegetarian), so Shaggy is played – for the first and only time – past Billy W ± though Billy did voice the Large Eater 1 additional time in a Kids' WB! commercial. Daphne and Velma are played hither past Mary Kay Bergman and BJ Ward respectively, replacing original VA's Heather Northward and Nicole Jaffe (likewise respectively; both original voices would briefly return four years after). Frank Welker, reprising his role of Fred, was the only original bandage member to return.

In 2019, a sequel, Scooby-Doo: Return to Zombie Island, was announced.

Zombie Island provides examples of:

  • Accidental Hero: In an ambiguous case, Simone'due south cats, who bother Shaggy and Scooby into driving away from the plantation, encountering the zombies and leading to everyone looking for them, when they might have been easy casualty for the cat creatures to snatch one past one if they'd stayed in the mansion.
  • Actor Allusion: Adrienne Barbeau voices Simone Lenoir, who has several cats and turns out to be a cat-monster herself. Barbeau'south all-time-known animated role is Catwoman from Batman: The Blithe Series. Likewise, as with Swamp Thing, Barbeau's graphic symbol is involved with strange things in the Louisiana swamps.
  • Amanuensis Mulder: Daphne clearly believes that there is some existent paranormal stuff out there somewhere, is eager to find information technology and is annoyed whenever Fred and Velma propose a more mundane solution.
  • Agent Scully: Fred takes his sweet time accepting the possibility that existent zombies and ghosts are pursuing them. In his defense, he'due south spent at least a decade of every monster and ghost he encountered existence frauds and fakes.
  • Ambiguously Evil: The "cat god". On ane hand, he seemed benevolent and generous towards Lena's and Simone's settler grouping... but on the other hand, when the two asked him for revenge on Moonscar's crew, his response was to turn them into life draining werecats, and withhold the cost from them until subsequently the fact.
  • And I Must Scream: The existence of the zombies. They were once normal people who had their life forcefulness drained by the cat people. Consequently this turned them into aware merely immortal zombie monsters.
  • Creature Jingoism: Scooby, for some reason, hates cats and angrily chases them whenever he sees them. The cats, too, don't like him and taunt him when something bad happens to him. They seem to brand amends in The Stinger, which shows Scooby giving the cats milk.
  • Anti-Villain: Simone and Lena turn out to exist werecats who drain life from others due to the fact that they were cursed as part of a ritual to get revenge on those who slaughtered their townspeople.
  • The Atoner: Morgan Moonscar and his pirate crew, Simone and Lena's first victims, and the only ones who were non innocent. In life, they were roughshod killers who slaughtered an entire colony of innocent settlers for no adept reason, only in undeath, they are apparently remorseful for their actions, and have washed a Heel–Face Turn in trying to save others from being killed past the werecats.
  • Bad Liar: Shaggy tells Lena that Scooby is "groovy" with cats when she expresses concern that he'll disturb Simone'southward pets. She speedily calls him out on this when Scooby goes on a binge against them.
  • Balloon Belly: Scooby and Shaggy become comedically obese after eating a ton of contraband food (or more likely just food they've been stealing from people).
  • Be Careful What You Wish For:
    • Simone and her servant Lena prayed to true cat gods for the power to protect their isle from pirates. The gods granted them such power, but also cursed them to drain the lives of others during the harvest moon.
    • Scooby and the gang also suffered this trope after Daphne expressed desires to run into real monsters.

    "This is more haunted stuff than I actually wanted..."

  • Berserk Button: If Scooby Ever sees cats, he'll go off. And Simone clearly does Not take kindly to dogs on the premises, peculiarly ones that go after her cats.
  • Large Bad: Simone is the main villain of the film, since Lena and Jacques are subservient to her, though to a nominal degree in Lena'south example.
  • Big Damn Heroes:
    • Just as Jacques has Shaggy and Scooby in his grasp, the zombies appear and gang up on him, allowing the two to escape.
    • Something similar happens in the climax. When Simone and Lena catch ahold of Shaggy and Scooby, a pair of Confederate zombies jump on them and make the werecats let Shaggy and Scooby become.
  • Big Damn Picture: The offset moving picture in the franchise to have truly dramatic and serious stakes, equally Scooby Goes Hollywood had No Antagonist and had the conflict circumduct around Shaggy and Scooby quitting their roles as television stars to pursue careers in Hollywood movies, while Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul Schoolhouse, and Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf had villains causing the conflict, but were nonetheless as lighthearted every bit your standard Scooby-Doo fare.
  • Big Eater: Scooby and Shaggy as usual take enormous appetites.
  • Birthday Episode: The Mystery Inc. reunion begins on Daphne's birthday. Ironically, she gets so caught upwardly in her work beforehand, that she loses track of her birthday until anybody else greets her.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Article of clothing: Simone, Lena, and Jacques all offset out the film equally decent and friendly people, especially the jovial Jacques. Then they reveal themselves to be werecats who have been murdering people en masse for centuries.
  • Bittersweet Ending: The gang realizes that they really were out of their depth and barely survived Lena and Simone trying to bleed them. Daphne laments at that place's no proof about what happened due to quicksand swallowing up the photographic camera, and they only survived past dumb luck, not by working as a team. Swain and so reveals he's a cop investigating the mysterious disappearances on the island and volition write up his written report. Though he admits information technology will be difficult for his superiors to believe the truth, Swain tells everyone at least they're live to tell the tale.
  • The Creature: Jacques turns out to be in league with Simone and Lena in their program to drain their victims of their life strength, and is a much larger physical threat to the gang every bit a werecat.
  • Casting Gag: Possibly the casting of Adrienne Barbeau (Catwoman from Batman: The Animated Series) every bit Simone Lenoir and Jim Cummings (both Fat True cat from Fleck 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers and, since 1992, classic Disney ruffian Pete) equally Jacques.
  • Coincidental Danger Dialogue: When they're tied up via voodoo doll, and Velma realizes that she pegged Young man all wrong, that he was trying to protect the gang, she takes the fourth dimension to apologize to him. Swain says apology accepted because he understands why she was suspicious. That and being sacrificed to a cat god takes bigger priority.
  • The Catfish: A minor character fisherman introduced at the beginning is constantly trying to catch a massive catfish named "Big Mona". Big Mona sprays Scooby's face up with water and is a large, mean fish.
  • Cats Are Hateful: Played with. Scooby has an ongoing rivalry with Simone's cats, though the cats themselves are ultimately neutral characters, with no good or evil intentions towards the protagonists. Played direct with Simone and Lena, who are very legitimately evil Cat Girls who gain immortality by stealing visitors' souls. In The Stinger, Scooby and Simone's cats eventually fabricated peace.
  • Cats Have 9 Lives: As pointed out by Velma when the cat creatures' fail to drain the gang'south lives in time.

    "Looks like your ix lives are up!"

  • Angelic Deadline: The cat creatures have to drain visitors' life forces every midnight on a harvest moon and so they can alive forever.
  • Cerebus Syndrome: Mystery Inc.'s wacky pursuits of existent monsters e'er plow out to be criminals and con artists in disguise. Then things accept a nighttime turn when the zombies of Moonscar Island turn out to exist the real deal .
  • Character Development: Daphne retains her more proactive personality from The xiii Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, and takes it a pace farther past never once actually being a Damsel in Distress (at to the lowest degree, non when others weren't in as much trouble as she).
  • Chekhov'due south Gag: During the "It's Terror Time Again" scene, Shaggy accepts a vine from a zombie to pull Scooby out of some quicksand. It seems similar a classic Double Take gag. It'southward really foreshadowing that the zombies don't mean any harm.
  • Chekhov'due south Gun: The textile Velma uses to clean her glasses. Afterwards, Simone and Lena use the cloth to ability a Velma voodoo doll. Fred's ascot serves a like purpose in this movie.
    • Midway through the movie, when Shaggy is chasing Scooby, he stops for a moment to stuff his pockets with hot peppers grown on the isle. Near the terminate of the movie, they are used as a mean of cocky-defence when Scooby sprays Jacques' optics with one of them.
  • Clothing Harm: Actually a minor plot point. Lena and Simone transforming into cat creatures results in their clothes ripping. Velma is then able to utilise some of the clothing fragments to alter the voodoo dolls so they now target Simone and Lena.
  • Counterfeit Cash: Counterfeiting is the scheme the 'Moat Monster' at the first of the movie is attempting to cover up.
  • Covers Ever Lie:
    • The castle on the poster only appears briefly at the outset of the movie. Well-nigh of the motion picture takes place on a plantation.
    • An before cover blueprint ◊ (also used for the Scholastic children's book adaptation) depicts zombies that look naught like those seen in the movie.
  • Crazy True cat Lady: Not only does Simone have so many cats for pets on the premises, but she is after revealed to exist a werecat herself.
  • Darker and Edgier: When it first came out, this was the darkest interpretation of Scooby Doo in existence. Information technology'south all the same one of the scariest with Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated being the only interpretation that could match information technology in darkness (and that's maxim something!). Plus, this is the first fourth dimension in Scooby-Doo where characters really die on-screen.
  • Dark and Troubled By: Simone and Lena were part of a grouping of settlers who were devoted to a cat god, until Morgan Moonscar and his pirates showed up, and chased the settlers into the water where they were later eaten. Simone and Lena, the simply ii survivors, prayed to the cat god for revenge confronting the pirates. The cat god responded by transforming the two of them into cat creatures with the power to destroy Moonscar and his crew. Unfortunately, this approval came with a curse of its own, requiring them to drain people'southward life forces every harvest moon to preserve their immortality.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: The zombies. They are scary undead monsters... that are simply trying to salvage others from suffering their fate.
  • Deal with the Devil: Simone and Lena fabricated a pact with their true cat-god to get revenge on Morgan Moonscar and his pirates, simply were cursed to get werecats that had to feed on other living beings to stay alive. Jacques made the same bargain to go immortal.
  • Death Equals Redemption: Morgan Moonscar and his fellow pirates come up back as zombies and successfully manage to hold off the villains long enough for the spell to be cleaved.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Simone is very cold to the gang at start, coming across as a bit snooty, and unhappy that they were invited out by Lena, merely (aside from her annoyance at Scooby) gets warmer, laughing agreeably after Shaggy and Scooby accept the hot peppers, and telling the gang to call her by her first name and showing interest in their investigation. It'due south all an human activity though.
  • Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Fred whistles the theme vocal to Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? at one role.
  • Destroy the Show: Fred's camera which was used to capture footage of all the haunted goings on at Moonscar Isle is lost in quicksand, causing information technology to sink and lose all the show.
  • Dolled-Upwardly Installment: The moving picture was adapted from the story of an unmade episode of SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, "Succubus!" (a.chiliad.a. "The Expletive of Kataluna"); the original story was supposed to have a Succubus.
  • The Dragon: Lena is Simone's height lackey.
  • Eat the Testify: While searching for contraband food in airport luggage, Shaggy and Scooby manage to eat it. This results in their dismissal from their job.
  • Emerging from the Shadows: Lena is introduced coming out of the shadows. Simone later does this when the gang finds her in the voodoo bedroom and her and Lena'southward true colors are revealed.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Morgan Moonscar and his pirates were cruel killers in life, but even in their undead land, they try to scare people away from the expanse so innocents don't suffer the same fate equally they did.
  • Evil All Forth: Simone, Lena and Jacques human activity equally kind and hospitable people to lure their victims to their isle, so they can drain their life force and accomplish immortality.
  • Exact Words: Lena wasn't kidding when she said the peppers on Moonscar Island were the hottest ones in Louisiana, much to Shaggy and Scooby's detriment when they tried the peppers. The latter ii employ this to their advantage when they use one of the peppers to blind Jacques in the optics.
  • Extremely Short Timespan: Non counting the prologue, the movie is set up over a timeframe of two 1/2 days.
  • Middle Scream: Scooby uses one of the island's peppers to blind Jacques towards the finish of the film.
  • Face–Heel Turn: Simone and Lena were originally simply trying to get even with the Pirates that wronged them, but in one case they were cursed, they remorselessly murdered countless people who did goose egg to wrong them.
  • Fair Cop: Beau turns out to be an undercover cop, and Daphne takes the time to talk about his bewitchery.
  • Family-Unfriendly Expiry:
    • In the flashback, when the pirates force the villagers into alligator-infested waters. Their deaths occur offscreen, just y'all withal hear the screams and other horrible sounds, as the camera shows the horrified faces of the two girls that survived because they hid behind a tree.
    • Simone, Lena and Jacques after they miss their deadline for feeding on souls. They disintegrate horrifically - you can actually see the pare being stripped from their bones as they screech in apple-polishing terror.
  • Family-Unfriendly Violence: One zombie has his caput ripped off, and two others get cut in half by a tree branch.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Simone and Lena's tragic backstory can elicit some sympathy for them both. However, it doesn't change the fact that they have been draining innocents of their life force for centuries in order to maintain their immortality, and intend to do the same to Scooby and the gang.
  • Fire-Breathing Diner: Scooby and Shaggy exhale flames after eating the Moonscar Island peppers.
  • V-Second Foreshadowing: Jacques arrives at the dock right as Shaggy and Scooby are badly trying to escape, after it had been earlier said the ferry didn't run at night. This makes him suspicious, which is immediately confirmed, as he transforms into a werecat every bit soon every bit he steps out of the boat.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • Zombie Island has several hints linking to the nature of the zombies: they generally don't attempt to physically harm the gang, and one of them fifty-fifty helps Shaggy save Scooby in the chase sequence.
    • The cats in Simone and Lena's house, coupled with the numerous shots and references to the Moon all across the movie, foreshadow that the 2 women are actually werecats.
    • The message that Morgan Moonscar carves into the kitchen wall early on in the film ("Get out" and "Beware") is interpreted as a threat past the primary characters. Equally the film progresses, information technology becomes very clear that information technology was actually a warning, and the pirate was really trying to warn the gang that Simone and Lena were not to be trusted.
    • Simone mentions that the zombies get more restless in one case night falls. During the daytime, only Morgan Moonscar shows up, while a confederate colonel and an unabridged horde of zombies spring to life at nightfall. It'due south a hint that the cat-creatures' ritual only happens at night, as that'southward when the living need the zombies' protection from being sacrificed.
    • Simone and Lena'south true nature was vaguely hinted when Lena opens the curtains in Fred's room to give him a view of the harvest moon. Every bit she turns to walk abroad, her entire front end side is darkly shadowed.
    • Information technology's just visible for a second, merely the look in Jacques eyes get a bit creepier as he laughs and says that if they want a haunted house, they've come to the right place.
    • Note how Lena has a sly expression when the gang kickoff encounters her, foreshadowing she'south going to lure them to Moonscar Island as part of Simone's program to drain their life forces. Besides, she sounds smug almost the whole fourth dimension.
  • Forgot Their Ain Birthday: Patently, Daphne forgot her own altogether during production of her show, and she'due south excited when Shaggy, Scooby and Velma surprise her with a late one during the gang'southward reunion.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Lena and Simone were colonists of Louisiana who lost everything due to Morgan Moonscar. Their revenge turned them into life draining cat monsters.
  • Game Face: Lena and Simone reveal their cat-fauna faces when they're preparing to cede Velma, Daphne, Fred and Beau. Possibly simply to mess with their heads, and their victims are already helpless.
  • Gave Up Likewise Soon: As revealed by Shaggy and Scooby knocking some dirt off the side, the skeleton of one zombie is in the pit Beau dug, just a few inches from being exposed. The reveal that he was actively searching for dead bodies due to investigating the disappearances when he dug that pit makes this even more than pronounced.
  • Genre Shift: From a straight Scooby-Doo story, to a supernatural horror mystery film.
  • Become Out!: The ghost of Moonscar carves this phrase into the wall equally a threat to Mystery Inc. It later turns out to actually be a warning, so that the gang avoid the same fate Moonscar and his crew faced.
  • Glowing Optics: At the end of the pic, Simone's cats somehow got aboard the ferry and their optics start glowing every bit they meow at Scooby.
  • God of Evil: Simone and Lena's cat god that gave them the power to murder the pirates so drain the life of innocent souls.
  • Gone Horribly Right: Daphne laments that her search for real, dangerous monsters has succeeded all likewise well. Additionally, Simone and Lena pray to their cat god and then that they can get revenge on the pirates that murdered their friends and family. They succeed, only to go true cat monsters that suck the life out of others.
  • Greater-Scope Villain:
    • Morgan Moonscar attacked Lena and Simone's village, causing the villagers to be eaten by crocodiles. This drove them to become cat monsters. Even so, he is now trying to relieve the gang from his fate.
    • The seemingly malevolent true cat god is an actual deity who gave Simone and Lena their powers to drain innocent people, but otherwise isn't directly involved in the plot.
  • The Greatest Story Never Told: After Fred inadvertently drops the photographic camera into quicksand and the zombies disappear along with Lena, Simone and Jacques, the gang laments that no one volition believe their adventure occurred. They realize Simone's just surviving servant Beau can human action as a witness, just even he doubts anyone will believe them.
  • Hairstyle Inertia: Lena keeps her hair the same manner in the nowadays as she did two hundred years ago, complete with a headband. Simone by dissimilarity had long pilus in the by but wears it brusque now.
  • Heel–Confront Plough: Information technology happened to Morgan Moonscar and his coiffure after their deaths. The above Foreshadowing entry makes articulate that they don't desire to kill the gang: in spite of being real zombies, they want to scare them away from the area (which was ironically a much more noble version of what nearly of the series' previous villains wanted to do).
  • High-Pressure Emotion: At one signal when Scooby and Shaggy eat the peppers, their entire bodies turn red and red smoke bursts out of their ears and noses.
  • Hoist by Their Own Petard: Scooby uses one of Moonscar Island's ain chili peppers to blind Jacques and Velma and Daphne plough Simone and Lena'south love of dolls against them past using their own dolls with their likenesses.
  • Hollywood Voodoo: A textbook instance among children'due south media, with the villains making voodoo dolls of well-nigh of the heroes to immobilize them. They exercise at to the lowest degree say it's washed with "magic wax".
  • Hope Spot: Shaggy and Scooby are out among swarming zombies, as the others get captured. The duo call up they're safe when they see Jacques's boat dock, but then Jacques turns into a true cat person.
  • Human Sacrifice: In a Hold the Line moment, the zombies continue the real villains at bay then Scooby'southward gang tin go permanently rid of them.
  • Hypocritical Sense of humour:
    • Early in the picture afterward they've been fired from their airport security job, Shaggy and Scooby worry nearly the prospect of going hungry and turning to peel and basic. This is after they've become obese from eating tons of contraband nutrient.
    • Daphne gets repeatedly bellyaching with Lena flirting with Fred, and the latter's playing forth with it. After, Daphne says that Beau is "kind of cute", and Fred can be seen looking very bellyaching.
  • Hypocrite: Despite being a werecat, Simone at i betoken refers to Scooby equally a brute.
  • Incongruously Dressed Zombie: A rare justified case of zombies having wardrobe that makes them stand out. The zombies are an eclectic agglomeration of victims taken at various points throughout history, then they range from 18th century pirates all the style up to modern tourists.
  • Irony: In the past Scooby-Doo media, people in costumes try to cover their crimes past dressing up as a monster and scare off whoever tries to investigate the area. Zombies on the other paw practise this intentionally so in that location would not exist any more victims and resurrect as a decades-quondam zombie.
  • Jerk with a Centre of Gold: Boyfriend. He was antagonistic towards the Mystery Inc. gang and was annoyed past Scooby and Shaggy messing upward his gardening, but he became protective of Mystery Inc. when the zombies came to life. Even when Velma made her suspicions of him clear, he kept her safe from walking into quicksand and tried to set on Lena when she and Simone reveal their true natures. He also forgave Velma when she apologized for suspecting him.
  • Karmic Death: Simone, Lena, and Jacques are killed by the very curse they possess when they are unable to bleed the lives of Mystery Inc. in time to survive the harvest moon.
  • Kick the Dog: In that location was no reason any for Morgan Moonscar to butcher the island settlers. This petty act of cruelty costs him, and hundreds of others for years afterward, very dearly indeed.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Lena, Simone and Jacques are not your usual Scooby Doo villains, given that their scheme is killing a agglomeration of people to remain immortal, and the fact that the are bonafide supernatural beings as opposed to crooks wearing masks.
  • Last-Minute Hookup: Velma and Swain show signs of becoming a couple once Beau is revealed to be an undercover agent investigating the disappearances.
  • Life Drinker: Simone and Lena were the only survivors of a group of settlers who worshipped a cat-god, the rest being slaughtered by the pirate Helm Morgan Moonscar. They prayed to the cat-god for the ability to accept revenge, and it was granted in the form of the power to transform into werecats and immortality, only only if they drain the life force of living people every harvest moon. By the fourth dimension Mystery, Inc. arrives at Moonscar Island, the bayou is littered with hundreds of undead corpses who accept fallen victim to Simone and Lena. In the climax, the gang nearly suffers this fate - and Scooby and Shaggy actually start to get their life drained from them and begin to dice on-screen.
  • Magic Skirt: Averted mostly, as Velma has to hold onto her skirt and keep it in identify each time she gets gently levitated. Though the trope happens when she and Daphne are both levitated and thrown virtually violently.
  • Master Actor: Boyfriend appears to be a Grumpy Bear snarling at the gang but it'south revealed he'south Southern Gentlemen Detective Young man Neville with Louisiana PD. The Jerkass persona was an act and so no one would get shut to him and potentially blow his cover. He breaks graphic symbol in the climax when Simone and Lena incapacitate Freddy, Velma and Daphne, shouting You Leave Him Lonely! and attempting to rescue them.
  • Mighty Glacier: In spite of their slowness, the zombies are patently physically strong enough to requite the werecats a run for their money - at 1 point, two zombies each manage to tackle and momentarily stun a werecat. Though, this could as well be justified by the zombies in question being Civil War soldiers.
  • Monochrome Past: Simone'south tragic backstory is depicted with old-fashioned sepia tone.
  • Mood Whiplash: This film goes back and along from the usual Hanna-Barbera cartoonish hijinks (generally surrounding around Shaggy and Scooby) that would brand children express joy to the dead-serious and scary situations that would give children nightmares.
  • Mythology Gag:
    • Fred tries on his orange ascot while getting ready for dinner at Simone's mansion, but tosses it bated afterwards realizing it looks ridiculous. Also see You lot Meddling Kids beneath.
    • Daphne existence the believer and Fred being the skeptic is a reversal of their roles from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
  • Near-Villain Victory: The werecats grab a hold of Shaggy and Scooby in the climax and virtually succeed in draining their life force as they historic period rapidly, until they get controlled by voodoo dolls of their ain that force them abroad from Shaggy and Scooby, both of whose youths are miraculously restored.
  • Never Say "Die": Zigzagged. Scooby and Shaggy repeatedly refer to the zombies as being "dead," but Simone points out during her tragic backstory that she and Lena "destroyed" the pirates upon granting their curse from the cat god. Although in the latter case, regular quondam expiry would have been preferable.
  • Never Grinning at a Crocodile: Alligators serve as a common danger for the film, including trying to eat Scooby later on he accidentally fell off the gunkhole. Morgan Moonscar and his men drove the other settlers from Simone and Lena's village into the swamp, where alligators surrounded and presumably ate them.
  • Prissy Task Fixing It, Villain: After subduing the others with Hollywood Voodoo, the villains say they didn't carp creating such dolls for Shaggy and Scooby, as they considered them hapless idiots not worth the effort. Those two running around in a blind panic instead of being restrained is a large reason why everything gets batty for the villains. Shaggy and Scooby even slam into Simone and Lena earlier the others tin can be drained, knocking the dolls to the ground and giving Velma a chance to go free. By the time the villains manage to grab Shaggy and Scooby for the ritual, the others have managed to perform a picayune voodoo trick of their ain.
  • Nightmare Face: Simone gives a terrifying face to the photographic camera when she partially undergoes her werecat transformation and again with Lena when they fully transform.
  • No Immortal Inertia: When they miss their deadline for feeding, the three villains all dissolve horrifically into puddles of rust-covered bio-affair within a few seconds.
  • No Ontological Inertia: When Simone and Lena are draining Shaggy and Scooby's life forces, they apace age upon contact, but once they are yanked away cheers to Daphne and Velma making voodoo dolls of them, Shaggy and Scooby immediately return to normal seconds later.

    Shaggy: Like, I was starting time to feel like a raisin!

  • Not a Mask: Fred tries to remove a mask from a zombie. Instead he tears the zombie's head off.
  • Not a Zombie:
    • A rare example of not noticing the zombies are real undead beingness completely justified given the characters involved. All characters except Shaggy and Scooby are skeptical that the island is inhabited by real monsters, and then when the gang manages to knock out a zombie, Fred pulls on the creature's head to "unmask" it, but tears it from the body instead.
    • Averted when one of the mysteries the gang is solving involves a zombie ship captain (which happens to be a woman in the costume).
  • Not Evil, Just Misunderstood:
    • Beau, the gardener, seems like a shady guy and always gets annoyed when his flowerbeds are ruined. However, he'due south actually an underground police officer investigating the disappearances of missing tourists who ultimately learns the truth.
    • The zombies then very much. Yes, they're quite terrifying and they know it. That's the betoken. They're not trying to hurt or eat Scooby and his friends. They're trying to save them from being consumed past Simone and Lena.
  • Not Now, Kiddo: Swain while walking with Velma tries telling her to finish. She won't listen to him and says outright she suspects him of being backside the zombie happenings. Beau reaches down and grabs a huge rock...considering she was near to walk into quicksand and he tosses the rock to demonstrate.
  • Oh, Crap!: Several characters have horrified reactions to realizing they're screwed several times throughout the picture show. 1 in particular that stands out is Fred when he finally gets it that the zombies really are real, and really are trying to kill them ...Or not. The zombies are actually trying to scare them away, so the real villains won't sacrifice them to their true cat god.
  • Older Than They Look: Although Simone and Lena expect like regular young adults, they're really over two hundred years old, due to the true cat god'southward expletive rendering them immortal equally long as they drain a visitor's life force every harvest moon. The same goes for Jacques, who looks quondam merely is given immortality past them.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: The pirate helm, Morgan McReight, who received the nickname Morgan Moonscar considering of the moon-shaped scar on his face. He's the namesake of the island the gang visits.
  • Otherworldly Communication Failure: Moonscar and the other pirate ghosts aren't haunting the island to injure or harm humans. They are haunting the island to ward humans away and salve them from Simone, Lena, and Jacques who are soul sucking, nearly immortal, werebeasts.
  • Our Werebeasts Are Different: Specifically, this story gives u.s.a. werecats. The curse was brought on by invoking the ability of some vaguely described true cat god that was worshiped by the island's original inhabitants. The werecats transform entirely at will, but usually remain in their human forms. Information technology isn't clear if, or how, others can be turned into werecats in the typical werebeast fashion (bites, scratches, etc) - the ii original werecats have only ever turned one person, but it isn't explained how they did this. The curse also grants immortality, provided the werecats steal the life forces of others every harvest moon.
  • Our Zombies Are Dissimilar: Very dissimilar. Non the flesh eating kind or the brain eating kind. Or the evil kind. They're the completely sentient victims of the soul stealing magical cat people, and so they want only to endeavour and scare humans away, so they don't join their ranks. Likewise, they only seem to be active for a brusque time before the cat people'south "feeding time," and initially manifest every bit ghosts; it'due south only when the chosen night descends that they can physically manifest every bit zombies.
  • Outdated Outfit: During the opening sequence, the gang is seen in their classic outfits from the original show. For the residual of the motion-picture show — and for that matter the residuum of the serial up until Mystery Inc., they habiliment more than modern dress (salve for Shaggy). Fred fifty-fifty throws his prized ascot away.
  • Pet the Dog:
    • When Scooby gets trapped in quicksand, a Confederate zombie passes Shaggy a vine to help pull him out. So it turns out that they're not actually evil.
    • Lena expresses genuine concern for Jacques when she hears him existence attacked.
  • Police Are Useless: Subverted; Young man reveals that Louisiana PD took interest in the number of disappearances that happened effectually Moonscar Island at the same time every year, namely tourists and people with families. He went underground to investigate Simone and Lena since past Occam'southward Razor they were the well-nigh likely suspects for kidnapping or murder. Beau didn't factor in that the Scooby gang would visit, which meant he had to focus on protecting them as well while gathering evidence. While Simone and Lena ambush him in the climax, he does all he tin to shield Daphne, Velma and Freddy.
  • Pragmatic Adaptation: Many would fifty-fifty competition that this is the all-time Scooby-Doo story e'er. Hands downwards. And, equally stated, it started out as an episode of a completely different series which had the darkness as standard fare.
  • Punk: While The Ghost is Hither is of the Popular Punk variety, equally was pop at the fourth dimension, It'south Terror Time dives head first into direct-upwardly Horror Punk...and information technology's as spectacularly crawly and plumbing equipment as y'all'd await for one of the best, and genuinely horrifying, Scooby-Doo films ever.
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Velma says "Looks like your 9 lives are up!" when midnight has passed and the cat creatures have failed to drain the gang's life forces before and so, ending the curse and causing them to be destroyed.
  • Putting the Band Back Together: The story opens up afterward the gang have been separated for a number of years. Given how a few small-scale appearances aside this was the get-go new Scooby media in seven years, there's a bit of Reality Subtext to it. The film's success is most likely why the first live action movie used this to prepare upward the plot of that film.
  • Quicksand Sucks: Quicksand is a major hazard on the island. It likewise swallows upwards Freddy's camera, which had proof virtually the monsters.
  • Rapid Aging: This happens to Shaggy and Scooby when Simone and Lena are draining their life forces, but to return to normal later on they lose physical contact with them. Somewhen information technology occurs with Simone, Lena and Jacques, since they missed their Celestial Deadline and turn to grit instantly.
  • Real Afterward All: The chief theme of the film. After years of dealing with people in costumes trying to scare abroad people, the Scooby Gang embark on a new mystery and come across real monsters, and real dangerous villains with nefarious plots.
  • Real Life Writes the Plot: Casey Kasem refused to return to vocalization Shaggy unless the graphic symbol became vegetarian like him. Equally Shaggy eats crawfish in the pic, he is now voiced past Billy Westward.
  • Reasonable Dominance Figure: Boyfriend is revealed to exist this. He was beingness a jerk to the gang considering he was worried they would become the next group of people missing on the island, while he investigated Simone and Lena. As Velma says he's a doubtable, his response is to use a rock to warn her about quicksand right by her feet. In the finish, he says he plans to file a report of what he establish, fifty-fifty if his superiors won't believe him. What'south more than, Young man tells the gang that despite in that location existence no proof, they are nevertheless live and that's no small-scale deal.
  • Ruby-red Herring: This flick started a trend of an entire gallery of herrings.
    • Boyfriend seems pretty suspicious and is pretty hostile to the gang. He turns out to be an undercover cop investigating the disappearances on Moonscar Island and becomes the Sixth Ranger to the group.
    • Snakebite Scruggs is quickly shrugged off every bit a doubtable since while he'due south a nasty guy, he notwithstanding saved Shaggy and Scooby from alligators.
    • Morgan Moonscar is congenital upwards equally the chief antagonist, particularly after his ghost carves a warning into Simone's kitchen wall. Only he'south the Greater-Scope Villain who's pulled a Heel–Face Turn in death, and was the outset victim of Simone, the true Large Bad.
  • Reduced to Dust: At the end of the motion picture, the werecats and zombies turn into dust when the curse expires.
  • Rewatch Bonus: Those who've already seen the movie will know not to trust Simone and Lena, so information technology becomes noticeable that Lena is absent-minded when Velma randomly begins levitating in kitchen. This foreshadows not only the existence of the voodoo dolls but also the fact that her and Simone are the ones who made them.
  • Right for the Incorrect Reasons: Velma is correct to think Beau is doing more than simply gardening. However, he's only investigating the disappearances of the many people who came to Moonscar Isle and never returned rather than doing annihilation illegal similar Velma initially suspected.
  • Romantic False Pb: Daphne and Fred develop crushes on Fellow and Lena, respectively, invoking each other's jealousy.
  • Running Gag:
    • Scooby and Shaggy sampling some of Simone's spiciest peppers. They use it to fend off Jacques in the climax.
    • The gang unintentionally interfering with Snakebite's attempts to take hold of a catfish named Big Mona.
    • "Dog? Where?"
    • Scooby Doo has a trend to chase Simone's cats.
  • Scooby-Dooby Doors: Played with briefly at the start, where Shaggy and Scooby are running from a monster, and use a hallway with doors to this event while the monster just stands at the end of the hall and watches them.
  • "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Averted in the main villains' plan, simply played directly for all the "monsters" the gang encounters before Lena invites them to Moonscar Isle. It'southward why the gang disbanded.

    Chris: Got a little boring, eh?

  • Ship Tease: There are scenes that imply some romantic tensions with Fred and Daphne. They stayed together when Mystery Inc. temporarily went their split up ways and Fred was part of Daphne's bear witness. There are also scenes where Fred expresses jealousy of Boyfriend and Daphne expressing jealousy of Lena considering of the implied allure betwixt Fred and Daphne. They're as well seen embracing each other and watching the sun ascent at the cease with Daphne stating that the island could be a romantic spot.
  • Shown Their Work: When Beau is revealed as an undercover cop and a police within man, given he was nearly killed by the cat creatures, it is stunning that the police, knowing people accept a tendency to vanish on the island, would put an inside human in such jeopardy, especially given there was no proof of foul play. However, this is normally how the cops investigate remote expanse crimes such equally disappearances with no business firm proof of criminal involvement. If in that location is a person, try to become them employed and have them investigate it. Either fashion, they accept a suspect or some idea of what happened. If Beau found some hints of what happened, he could tell his superiors, if he died, well then they have two or three suspects.
  • Sickly Green Glow: While the werecats are draining a victim's life forcefulness, as shown when Simone and Lena attempt to do this to Shaggy and Scooby, they and their victims glow an unhealthy green as the victims rapidly age.
  • Skeptic No Longer: Fred's denial of the supernatural vanishes very chop-chop.
  • Somewhere, a Herpetologist Is Crying: Alligators are as usual erroneously depicted with crocodile-like teeth.
  • Southern Gothic: The setting is a creepy Louisiana bayou.
  • Spanner in the Works:
    • Lena and Simone's decision not to make wax dolls out of Shaggy and Scooby ends up existence one of the deciding factors of them missing their deadline in the climax.
    • Beau explains that his plan was to assemble evidence behind the missing tourists as an undercover detective since Simone and Lena were the most likely suspects but had been good about roofing their tracks. The Scooby gang arriving forced him to adjust because he had to worry about their prophylactic during his investigation.
  • Stab the Scorpion: Subsequently much criticism from Velma, Beau picks upwards a large rock, and it looks like he'southward going to injure her with information technology. Instead, he throws it in front of her, revealing that she was about to step into quicksand. She thanks him, but she still sees him every bit a suspect. He takes it in stride.
  • Start of Darkness: As told via Flashback by Lena and Simone — they originally gained dark powers to get vengeance on the pirates that destroyed their home, but the toll of the ability turned them to evil.
  • Condition Quo Is God:
    • Mystery Inc. has broken up? Not for long.
    • Averted with the events of Zombie Isle, which saw the serial introducing more than real monsters for the gang in many of their time to come adventures to come.
  • The Stinger: At the finish of the film, Scooby Breaks the Fourth Wall by cutting open the blackness screen. Later on Scooby gives milk to Simone's cats as an human action of reconciliation, he lets out his "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!" Catchphrase.
  • Stock Audio Prune:
    • There's a particular audio clip of Shaggy struggling that'due south used about four or five times throughout the movie. Once you notice, it's very distracting.
    • In that location's some other clip of Scooby proverb "Yeah" that's used 3 times in succession and throughout the rest of the movie.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
    • The gang splits upwards because they got fed upwards with all the thought of fighting people in masks. Turns out no matter how good you are with people, when information technology comes to doing the same thing over and over again, the group will split considering someone wants something different. Given that Daphne was the 1 who split get-go, even if it isn't stated exactly on screen, it quickly led the other gang members to part ways, admitting reluctantly.
    • Simone and Lena were able to kill large amounts of people from several centuries in large office due to the fact the area was remote, the fourth dimension menstruation usually had people die from the illness, ships sinking, and war, and if it wasn't that, they were usually fugitives who no one would heed. Once information technology becomes obvious more modern tourist people outset disappearing on the isle, it doesn't take long for the cops to launch an investigation, and given Beau was The Mole for them working equally a gardener, it quickly becomes obvious they were considered prime suspects. Beau mentions this, that the number of disappearances in the area was unusual and he was sent to investigate.
    • Why are most of the zombies in the area of the swamp or almost them? Simone, Lena, and Jacques realized very rapidly that while pirates and colonists, along with soldiers could be washed away, large amounts of people from the modern era could not, then they threw the bodies in the swamp for several reasons. Number 1, the alligators are a massive deterrent. The quicksand, while the zombies seem to exist smart enough to move around information technology, force lengthily detours that are long plenty to filibuster from getting to the chamber. But thirdly, in the event the cops suspected them of murder or launched an investigation, they threw them into the swamp to ensure that it wouldn't be an surface area close plenty to the business firm to portray them as potential murderers.
    • The bayou alone is shown to exist much more than dangerous than the zombies, with Shaggy almost beingness eaten by a crocodile and Scooby well-nigh getting stuck in quicksand.
    • The Scooby Snax Velma has been saving for Shaggy and Scooby since the gang broke up accept gotten dried.
    • When Scooby and Shaggy both bound into Fred'due south arms, he can't actually concur both of them upwards and and then they fall over instead of having 1 of their usual carry-and-run scenes.
  • Time Skip: The movie begins with a flashback of a routine mystery, then progresses several years after the disbandment of Mystery Inc. Daphne hosts a popular talk testify, Fred produces her show, Scooby and Shaggy work as security at an airport, and Velma owns a shop selling mystery books.
  • Took a Level in Badass:
    • Sure, she would lose them in the next few movies, but Daphne. Now she's an investigative reporter, determined to find a genuine supernatural event. She goes toe to toe with three werecats, and helps end them, becoming a Damsel out of Distress in the process.
    • Really the entire gang. The Moat monster from the offset and the various fakes from "The Ghost is Here" scene are knocked out and captured through dumb luck and awkwardness. The villains at the end of the movie get fought by the gang with some existent resourcefulness and grit.
  • Likewise Impaired to Alive: Even if Simone and Lena were smart enough to make wax dolls of Shaggy and Scooby, they are shown to be fully enlightened that the zombies do get up a few hours earlier their angelic deadline to scare people off. First of all, they don't try to bar people from leaving the house, but more glaringly, they fail to put upwards some sort of doorway to the other entrance of their sleeping room, despite beingness enlightened that at least some of the zombies know exactly where their ceremonies occur. Needless to say, they air current upward disintegrating because of this.
  • Trailers Ever Spoil:
    • One of the alternating posters for the film features Jacques in his were-cat form.
    • In addition, the trailers promise "this time, the monsters are real", and at least one used the tagline during the scene of the vampire bat monster chasing Scooby and Shaggy... but simply a few moments before, it showed the monster beingness unmasked as a imitation.
  • Transformation Sequence: Simone and Lena have one as they transform into werecats and prepare to drain the gang's life forces.
  • Undercover Cop Reveal: Boyfriend, although non in a fashion that matters to the plot.
  • Used to Be a Sugariness Kid: Simone and Lena were part of a grouping of settlers who made Moonscar Island their home, until Morgan Moonscar and his pirates invaded the island and drove everyone into the swamp except for themselves. They begged their Cat God to put a curse on the pirates for what they did to them. The wish was granted, the two became true cat creatures and destroyed the pirates; only it wasn't until then did they realize that invoking the Cat God's power had cursed them equally well, requiring that they drain life forces of those lured to the island every harvest moon at midnight to preserve their immortality.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Despite not being the main villain, Morgan Moonscar and his pirate crew are the reason why the movie even happens in the first identify; When they raided the isle ii centuries ago and had nearly of the islanders eaten by alligators. As a result, the ii surviving settlers, Simone and Lena, prayed to their cat god for a gamble to get revenge, and they were transformed into life-draining cat creatures that ended up draining them of their life force, and then the life strength of several innocent victims simply to stay alive subsequently, turning all of them into zombies.
  • Villain of Some other Story: The various criminals unmasked during the "The Ghost is Here" montage.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: Simone and Lena invert wearing a monster costume like previous Scooby-Doo villains by being monstrous werecats underneath their human disguises.
  • Voodoo Doll: Used past Simone and Lena at one point. Daphne and Velma then plow this effectually, using the dolls on them.
  • Walk Into Camera Obstruction: With Lena as she is showing Fred to his room.
  • Alert Mistaken for Threat: The ghost of the pirate captain Morgan Moonscar carved the words "Become Out!" and "Beware" into the kitchen wall of the mansion. Mystery Inc later learns that he was simply trying to warn them almost Simone and Lena'south true nature as life-draining werecats.
  • Wham Line:
    • Earlier this, Velma makes an interesting ascertainment that foreshadows what Lena and Simone are planning.

      Velma: Her story about Simone getting dragged away by zombies wasn't truthful. I saw the footprints of Simone's heels. She wasn't dragged, she walked down that tunnel!

  • Wham Shot: Fred encounters a zombie, and attempts to remove its mask:

    Fred: It'southward the gardener!
    Daphne: No!
    Fred: It'southward the fisherman!
    Shaggy: No!
    Fred: It's the ferryman!
    Scooby: No!
    Fred: Mayhap it's... [Pulls the zombie'south caput off] Real?

    • Lena worriedly informs the group that Simone was kidnapped past the zombies and escorts them to where they had allegedly taken her. Velma has trouble believing Lena'southward story when she examines the footprints, and when she turns to interrogate her, Lena's expression has changed to a smug wait, revealing that it was indeed a lie and that they had been lured into a trap.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: A Running Gag throughout the flick is Scooby chasing Simone'southward cats every fourth dimension he sees them. The leader of Simone's cats is a white cat that torments Scooby more than the others, merely it suddenly disappears from the movie while the others are still constantly seen. Fifty-fifty during the ending where the cats are shown to take boarded the transport with Scooby and co., leaving the isle, the white true cat is nowhere to exist seen, not even in the post credits scene where Scooby makes peace with the cats.
  • When the Clock Strikes Twelve: Inside the midnight hr of a harvest moon, the cat creatures must drain the visitors' life forces to preserve their immortality.
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?: Simone and Lena do. Every harvest moon at midnight, they must drain the life forces of those lured to Moonscar Isle to stay alive.
  • With Cracking Power Comes Great Insanity: From Simone and Lena's flashback, they appeared to originally exist perfectly normal individuals, admitting ones who worshiped some pagan cat deity, and they just prayed to be transformed into werecats to get revenge on the pirates for slaughtering their hamlet. However it appears that the process drove them mad with power, and they continued to bleed the life-force of innocents for centuries even subsequently their vengeance was complete.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Simone and Lena were peaceful settlers until pirates ransacked their dwelling house and killed the other settlers in horrific fashion. They asked their god for a way to avenge them, and they got information technology.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Fred. All his theories and guesses about who could be faking the ghost and zombie appearances on Moonscar Island, and why they'd be doing it would probably exist right, if it wasn't for the fact that this film is a Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Scooby-Doo formula past showing what happens when the usual "Scooby-Doo" Hoax gets averted.
  • Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Simone, Lena and Jacques' eyes all turn into yellow cat's optics when they transform.
  • Y'all Meddling Kids:
  • Your Costume Needs Piece of work: When the gang captures a lone zombie, they initially believe information technology to exist an obvious false, an unusual example of savvy for this franchise. Unfortunately for them, in this instance they're Wrong Genre Savvy.

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