No Hope November - Day 16 - "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island"

 The 16th entry for No Hope November is a movie I love and have watched many times. "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island" was released in the fall of 1998 and turned the world of Scooby on its ear. As this film begins we find that the gang is now a little older and are doing their own thing. Daphne has a Paranormal TV show that Fred helps with, Velma owns an occult bookstore, and Shaggy and Scooby are slackers (of course). Fred gets the gang back together to travel to the swamps of Louisiana to investigate what he believes to be a real haunting for Daphne's TV show, rather than a dude in a rubber mask like their mysteries have always turned out to be. Here's where this movie changed things in the Scoobyverse, the place they investigate actually IS haunted. Bam! Game changer. Scooby Doo on Zombie Island has a darker, more mature tone than the previous iterations, yet maintains all of the charm and fun that made Scooby Doo Where Are You so wonderful. This film was very popular and successful and was the beginning of a worthwhile string of movies that has continued to this day. The follow up to Zombie Island was Scooby Doo and The Witch's Ghost, which is equally incredible. If you have never seen this movie you should rectify that immediately! There are ghosts, skeletons, zombies, voodoo, Pirates,were-creatures, and tons of fun for the entire family.