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Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island promotional poster
Directed by	Hiroshi Aoyama Kazumi Fukushima Jim Stenstrum
Produced by	Davis Doi
Written by	Davis Doi Glenn Leopold
Starring	Scott Innes Billy West Frank Welker Mary Kay Bergman B.J. Ward Adrienne Barbeau Tara Strong
Music by	Steven Bramson Glenn Leopold
Editing by	Paul Douglas
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Home Video
Release date(s)	September 22, 1998
Running time	77 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Followed by	Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost (1999)
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Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is the first of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on September 22, 1998, and it was the first Scooby-Doo movie to be produced by Warner Bros. Animation, with Hanna-Barbera Cartoons distributing the film. The Mystery, Inc. gang, which includes Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma, travel to Moonscar Island which is located in the Louisiana bayou. The film was directed by Hiroshi Aoyama, Kazumi Fukushima, and Jim Stenstrum, based on Glenn Leopold's unfinished Swat Kats episode "The Curse of Kataluna", and written by Leopold and Davis Doi. The song "It's Terror Time Again", sung by Skycycle, played after Scooby Doo and the others found out that zombies were real.

At the opening of the movie's first musical number "The Ghost is Here", the gang is shown unmasking several "old-time" style criminals:

• A nerdy-looking guy in a lobster-man suit, fought in an old tinned crustacean factory.(There's a poster on the factory with the Nerd on it)
• An old man in a man-vampire bat suit, fought in a graveyard.
• A "witch's ghost" that turns out to be a hologram.
• A zombie policeman, that turns out to be a middle-aged woman.

After years of unmasking phony ghosts, the Mystery Inc. gang go their separate ways. Daphne and Fred go off to start a successful investigative TV series (Coast to Coast with Daphne Blake), Velma opens a mystery bookstore, and Scooby and Shaggy bounce from job to job, including work as customs officers at an airport. However, when Fred decides that the next episode of Daphne's show should be about tracking down real ghosts, he reassembles the gang and brings them all to Louisiana. After encountering many "men in masks" ("just like the old days"), the gang arrives in New Orleans, and are invited by a cook named Lena to visit Moonscar Island, the home of her employer. The island, Lena claims, is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of a pirate named Morgan Moonscar. Although the gang is skeptical, they decide to go along with Lena and visit the island.

The gang arrives on the island and meets Lena's employer, Simone Lenoir, a beautiful Cajun woman with a love for felines, who explains about the hauntings. En route to the island, the gang also meet Jacques, who runs the ferry from the island to the mainland, and Snakebite Scruggs, a grungy fisherman.

The first two-thirds of the film play out like a regular Scooby-Doo cartoon, with the gang checking out clues and working to prove that the "ghost" is just a person in a mask. During the third act, however, it turns out that the island is home to real zombies. The zombies, however, turn out to be the good guys: Simone, Lena, and Jacques are revealed to actually be werecats who drain the life force out of people to preserve their immortality and the zombies were their many victims. The gang, along with Simone's gardener Beau, (who is revealed to be an undercover police officer) defeat the cat-creatures and free the zombies' souls to rest in peace.

• Scott Innes as Scooby-Doo
• Billy West as Shaggy
• Mary Kay Bergman as Daphne Blake
• B.J. Ward as Velma Dinkley
• Adrienne Barbeau as Simone
• Tara Strong as Lena
• Cam Clarke as Beau Neville
• Jim Cummings as Jacques
• Mark Hamill as Snakebite Scruggs

Like a number of direct-to-video Scooby-Doo animated films released in the late-1990s and early-2000s, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island featured real monsters instead of simple bad guys in masks. This was heavily promoted before its release including a tagline used during commercials saying "This time, the monsters are real". While some viewers disliked this aspect of these films' plots, others welcomed the change. The videos sold well and received generally positive reviews in the press, leading to a series of future direct-to-video Scooby-Doo feature films, and a new television series, What's New, Scooby-Doo?.

Scooby-Doo characters
Scooby-Doo • Norville "Shaggy" Rogers • Fred "Freddie" Jones • Daphne Blake • Velma Dinkley • Scrappy-Doo • Scooby-Dum
Scooby-Doo series
Scooby-Doo, Where are You! (1969–1970) • The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–1973) • The Scooby-Doo Show (1976–1978) • Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–1980) • Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo / Scrappy-Doo and Yabba-Doo (1980–1982) • The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show / The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1983–1984) • The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985) • A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988–1991) • What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002–2006) • Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! (2006– )
Scooby-Doo movies
Television films: Scooby Goes Hollywood (TV special, 1979) • Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987) • Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988) • Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988) • Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights (1993)
Direct to video films: Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) • Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost (1999) • Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000) • Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001) • Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire (2003) • Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico (2003) • Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004) • Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005) • Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? (2005) • Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
Live-action theatrical films: Scooby-Doo (2002) • Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
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