I hadn't seen much of the Scooby-Doo movies compared to the animated TV series ("Where Are You?", "Scooby-Doo Show", "What's New Scooby-Doo)
I would consider this to be my favourite Scooby-Doo movie currently, even as I've seen it multiple more times than the others (seen the VHS Monster of Mexico movie several times before), and the movie from previous year "Zombie Island", only once or twice.
Like clown Pennywise in It miniseries, this is one movie where Tim Curry does one of the best villainous roles in his filmography. In this movie, he voices Ben Ravencroft who's a famous horror writer (much Stephen King). He, by coincidence, meets up with the gang and invites them to his hometown of Oakhaven where he's angered that his ancestress Sarah had gained publicity for being as an evil witch, yet Ben wants to prove she's a wiccan who heals people, and some diary she lost as proof.
So, Scooby and Shaggy get up to chowing down in chef Jack's restaurant and later follow the town's mayor Corey who makes suspicious errands of going to a hardware store then some lady's bed and breakfast in middle of night yet attacked by Witch's Ghost when it attacked them in dark desolated warehouse that used to creep me out.
The last third of the movie gets interesting when in finding Sarah's book only find some unexpected twist, when Ben reveals his true nature: he was even clever in using Mystery Gang to his advantage, and setting up the Babylonian Museum incident at start of the movie.
Some may feel for sympathy for Velma that her idol has betrayed her and is then her archenemy. As Sarah was released and refuses Ben's desire to rule the world with her, he gets trapped temporarily and permanently destroyed after Sarah drags him into her book before it's disintegrated by burning branch.
Like how the Mystery Gang keep passing the spellbook around to each other when they get caught.
Somewhat a hilarious gag in this movie when Fred dislikes villains call them kids.
The Witch's Ghost movie also introducing the all-female gothic rock band of chicks named "The Hex Girls". Not to mention, they perform two of their soundtracks which I really like: "Hex Girl" and "Earth, Wind, Fire and Air". There's some other soundtrack, same name as this movie, played in ending credits.
And there's also the "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" theme tune played at start of episode (museum chase scene Shaggy and Scooby with the Babylonian archeologists), by Billy Ray Cyrus - certainly adore it prefer this over series' season 1 (when performed by Larry Marks), which was better than season 2 by George A. Robertson which didn't sound as great.
I would consider this to be my favourite Scooby-Doo movie currently, even as I've seen it multiple more times than the others (seen the VHS Monster of Mexico movie several times before), and the movie from previous year "Zombie Island", only once or twice.
Like clown Pennywise in It miniseries, this is one movie where Tim Curry does one of the best villainous roles in his filmography. In this movie, he voices Ben Ravencroft who's a famous horror writer (much Stephen King). He, by coincidence, meets up with the gang and invites them to his hometown of Oakhaven where he's angered that his ancestress Sarah had gained publicity for being as an evil witch, yet Ben wants to prove she's a wiccan who heals people, and some diary she lost as proof.
So, Scooby and Shaggy get up to chowing down in chef Jack's restaurant and later follow the town's mayor Corey who makes suspicious errands of going to a hardware store then some lady's bed and breakfast in middle of night yet attacked by Witch's Ghost when it attacked them in dark desolated warehouse that used to creep me out.
The last third of the movie gets interesting when in finding Sarah's book only find some unexpected twist, when Ben reveals his true nature: he was even clever in using Mystery Gang to his advantage, and setting up the Babylonian Museum incident at start of the movie.
Some may feel for sympathy for Velma that her idol has betrayed her and is then her archenemy. As Sarah was released and refuses Ben's desire to rule the world with her, he gets trapped temporarily and permanently destroyed after Sarah drags him into her book before it's disintegrated by burning branch.
Like how the Mystery Gang keep passing the spellbook around to each other when they get caught.
Somewhat a hilarious gag in this movie when Fred dislikes villains call them kids.
The Witch's Ghost movie also introducing the all-female gothic rock band of chicks named "The Hex Girls". Not to mention, they perform two of their soundtracks which I really like: "Hex Girl" and "Earth, Wind, Fire and Air". There's some other soundtrack, same name as this movie, played in ending credits.
And there's also the "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" theme tune played at start of episode (museum chase scene Shaggy and Scooby with the Babylonian archeologists), by Billy Ray Cyrus - certainly adore it prefer this over series' season 1 (when performed by Larry Marks), which was better than season 2 by George A. Robertson which didn't sound as great.