Why Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island Is Still Spooky and Fresh to This Day

What would SpookMonth be without a classic blast from the past? Am I right, Scoob? Sadly I don’t really have a talking dog but if I did he would’ve said “RATS RIGHT.” It’s time to remember one of the best Scooby-Doo movies of all time — and it might actually be the best one. It’s time to take a trip to Moonscar Island and remember why this movie is still spooky and fresh to this day. Even though I said “it’s time to remember why this movie is spooky and fresh,” I’m 99.99% sure that no one who has seen this movie has forgotten it. Also, there’s gonna be spoilers for this one because – come on now – it came out in 1998 so I think enough time has passed. Anyway, the plot of the movie goes a little something like this. The Mystery Inc. gang has broken up and are all doing their own thing. Daphne and Fred are running a T.V. show, Shaggy, and Scooby are bouncing from job to job since they just can’t stop eating confiscated food, and Velma is the owner of a Mystery book store. The gang gets together for Daphne’s birthday and takes a trip to Louisiana for her show to find real ghosts and monsters – and the spooking begins.

At first the trip is a bust with the standard crook in a suit/creep in the mask sort of thing but it also introduces us to one of the reasons why this movie is at the tippy-top of Scooby-Doo movies. The soundtrack. The song “The Ghost is Here” is used in a montage of fake monsters that breaks down the old school Scooby-Doo formula in a fresh way and the song is b…