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Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost

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This article is about the film. For the DVD, see Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (Home Media).

Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost is the twenty-ninth in a series of direct-to-video films based upon Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on Digital HD and DVD on February 5, 2019.

It serves as a quasi-conclusion to the short-lived 1985 TV series The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.

Premise[]

Mystery Inc. are put into retirement when they accidentally capture the wrong guy. Just when they think their mystery solving days are over, Vincent Van Ghoul reconnects with them to finish an unfinished case of Scooby, Shaggy, and Daphne's years ago.

Synopsis[]

The movie opens with a flashback of a young Vincent Van Ghoul and his partner, Mortifer Quinch successfully hunting down and sealing the 13th Ghost in the Chest of Demons. However, Mortifer was attacked and seemingly killed by minion ghosts as a tearful Van Ghoul makes his escape. In the opening credits of the movie, Van Ghoul recaps the events of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo in which Scooby-Doo set the 13 Ghosts free once more by accident, but would catch all but one with the help of Shaggy Rogers, Daphne Blake, Flim-Flam and his nephew, Scrappy-Doo.

In the present day, Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, Fred Jones and Velma Dinkley chased Farmer Morgan through the shopping mall and eventually captured him in Old Timey Toys. When the gang tried to unmask him, Morgan appears to be the real deal. Just then, the sheriff arrives with the real culprit, Mrs. Malveaux who stopped a deal with Morgan. The sheriff chastises the gang for capturing the wrong suspect, and he threatens them that if he ever sees them driving around in the Mystery Machine, he will put them in jail and also reminds them of the new leash law for dogs. With that, he tells the gang to stop solving mysteries.

The next day, the gang had a garage sale, selling all the monster costumes from their previous mysteries, as well as the Mystery Machine, much to Fred's misery. While Shaggy and Scooby relax in deckchairs, a customer named Bernie Alan discovers the crystal ball amongst their old mystery stuff, making Shaggy and Scooby recognize it from their 13 Ghosts adventures. Just then, Van Ghoul contacts Daphne, Shaggy and Scooby about the 13th and final Ghost. When Fred and Velma enquire what is going on, Daphne fills them in on her 13 Ghosts mysteries with Shaggy and Scooby while Fred and Velma were away from the gang after the events of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo.

After changing into her old 13 Ghosts outfit, Daphne unveils her old red van, the Miss-tery Machine to Fred and Velma, and the gang start on their journey to meet Van Ghoul at his castle. On their way, the gang were chased by a phantom car, but Daphne managed to outmaneuver it skillfully. When Fred saw Daphne took charge, it furthers Fred's existential crisis as he feels he is without a role. When the gang meet Van Ghoul, they were attacked by the 13th Ghost; a winged demon named Asmodeus. Shaggy sheepishly reveals that he sent the chest to Van Ghoul's residence in the Himalayas, and the gang heads over there using a flying boat.

When they arrived, the gang encounters Bernie Alan who inquired about the crystal ball at their garage sale, and Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby and Van Ghoul trailed him, but then get attacked by the phantom car and it revs its engine to cause an avalanche. Van Ghoul reveals that he is unable to use his magic powers and the four crash into a temple. Meanwhile, Fred and Velma search a seemingly abandoned post-office in a village, and they meet Flim Flam now an adult and he tries to sell them his Chest of Demons merchandise and ghost-catching equipment. When Fred and Velma leave the shop, they were suddenly snatched up by something even Velma cannot explain.

At the temple, Asmodeus had been waiting for Van Ghoul and he chases the four when they find the chest. While running, Van Ghoul destroys his crystal ball and transports Shaggy, Scooby and Daphne outside the temple where they meet Fred and Velma. As the gang fell into despondence, Fred reveals that he actually went to a cheerleading school during his time away from his friends. As Fred cheers for his despondent gang, a restored Daphne concocts a plan.

Velma visits Flim Flam's store and takes everything. Suddenly, the phantom car pursues Fred, Velma and Flim Flam, but they evade with the Miss-tery Machine's installed upgrades. Meanwhile, Shaggy, Scooby and Daphne infiltrate the castle to rescue Van Ghoul, and they reunite with Fred and Velma and Flim Flam who asked about Scrappy, which confuses the gang for a moment. Going into the castle, they find Van Ghoul defeated. He reveals to the gang that Asmodeus is really the demon form of his magically powerful ancestor, Asamad Van Ghoul and blames the impending doom on himself.

Asmodeus opens the Chest, something Velma points out as being possible, as the Chest can be only opened by a living person. Asmodeus tries to escape, but he gets intercepted Daphne. Asmodeus was unmasked as Mortifer, who reveals that he faked his own death by casting an illusion to fool Van Ghoul and he explains that he wanted to sell Flim Flam the Chest for $10 million. Bernie Alan arrives, and he reveals himself to be an Interpol agent named Vance Linklater and he arrests Mortifer. Just as Mortifer was taken into custody, he escapes in the phantom car but gets recaptured.

A visage of the real Asmodeus and Asamad briefly appears before the gang, and Velma deduces a tome that the real Asmodeus was really watching over Van Ghoul, and he has achieved redemption. She however fabricated the story to give Van Ghoul closure and debunks that the 12 Ghosts as hallucinations due to the Himalayan thin air and teases opening the real Chest, but after seeing everyone's fearful faces, she decides not to.

As the gang get ready to depart for home, Daphne kisses Flim Flam as a thank you for his help, and Van Ghoul warns Flim Flam to stay out of trouble. As they fly back home, Daphne decides the gang should continue solving mysteries and gives the leadership job back to Fred.

Characters[]

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

  • Mortifer Quinch (only appearance)(main story and flashback)
  • Mrs. Malveaux (only appearance)
  • Asmodeus (only appearance)(Mortifer's disguise)
  • Asamad Van Ghoul (only appearance)(no lines)(flashback only)
  • Minion Ghosts (only appearance)(flashback only)(illusions by Mortifer)

Other characters:

Locations[]

Objects[]

Vehicles[]

Suspects[]

Suspect Motive/Reason
Opening case
Farmer Morgan Ran away from the gang.
Main case
Bernie Alan He popped up in the Himalayas, after his check had bounced.

Culprits[]

Culprit Motive/Reason
Opening case
Mrs. Malveaux She didn't want to pay Farmer Morgan.
Main case
Mortifer Quinch as Asmodeus He wanted to sell the Chest of Demons.

Cast[]

Frank Welker Scooby-Doo
Fred Jones
Matthew Lillard Shaggy Rogers
Grey Griffin Daphne Blake
Mrs. Malveaux
Kate Micucci Velma Dinkley
Maurice LaMarche Vincent Van Ghoul
Bernie Alan
Vance Linklater
Noshir Dalal Flim-Flam
Nolan North Asmodeus
Mortifer Quinch
Farmer Morgan
David Herman Sheriff

Songs[]

Song Credits Performed by Character performance by
"Scoobystition" Written by Tim Sheridan and Andy Sturmer Andy Sturmer N/A

Continuity[]

Production[]

In an interview with A Podcast Named Scooby-Doo!, Tim Sheridan confirmed that Warner Bros. requested Flim-Flam and Scrappy not be in the film. However, both were taken into consideration by Sheridan while writing the script, and Scrappy was ultimately cut from the film due to not fitting into the story Sheridan wanted to tell. They also requested toning down of any truly supernatural elements, making the movie's stance on the paranormal more ambiguous.[1]

Bogel and Weerd were supposed to have cameos as monks depicted in the Temple's artwork. It is unclear if this was implying they were living monks all along or monks who died and became ghosts.[2] A possible reference to them, however, was the dark spirits in the flashback of Asmodeus' imprisonment in the Chest of Demons by Vincent and Mortifer. The spirits tried to get their hands on the Chest of Demons and release the ghosts to serve them, but Mortifer sacrificed himself to them so Vincent can take the Chest away, although this was all revealed at the end to be an illusion by Mortifer himself.

Notes/Trivia[]

Miscellaneous[]

Adaptations[]

  • This movie inspired the seventh level of the game app Scooby-Doo! Mystery Cases, which is called The Mysterious Chest of Demons.

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]

  • None known.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities[]

  • Scrappy was cut out of flashbacks in the opening credits, as if he never existed, only for Flim-Flam to contradict this retcon by still mentioning him, anyway, which is then followed by Velma not knowing who he was talking about.
  • In the opening sequence, Vincent only counts ten ghosts with one of them not even counting as a legitimate one, as it was a cyclone ghost in the episode Ship of Ghouls, which featured a combination of several ghosts captured from previous episodes.
  • Perhaps due to a misunderstanding, the Mystery Flying Machine is renamed to the "Flying Mystery Machine".
  • The gang are under the assumption that Farmer Morgan is wearing a mask, but don't think to try and unmask Mrs. Malveaux.
  • It's unknown why Mrs. Malveaux didn't want extra land for her mall, although it's presumably because she didn't have the millions of dollars to give to Farmer Morgan.
  • The gang are specified as being almost eighteen year olds, although they were clearly of age in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.
    • Fred and Velma were never at camp, as The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries, the previous series to The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, had Fred as an aspiring mystery writer and Velma as an assistant research scientist at NASA.
    • Shaggy mentions sending the Chest of Demons to Vincent before school started, but again, he was clearly past the age of going to any high school.
  • The Sheriff said Scooby should be on a leash, but the gang weren't so bothered by that law.
  • The Werewolf mask appears outside and inside the garage, with no time for anyone of the gang to have moved it.
  • It's implied the thirteen episodes of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo happened over one summer, when it went as far as winter.
  • Velma asks Daphne if the red van is also called the Mystery Machine, which she denies, but won't reveal its real name she has apparently given it. In reality, it was called the Mystery Machine in the episode Coast-to-Ghost.
  • Shaggy says the reason why him and Scooby are always afraid of fake monsters was because they've seen twelve real ones, but this wouldn't account for why they were afraid before that, evidenced by the keepsakes of past cases before The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.
  • The gang seem to be going back to the original mall case at the beginning of the film, although it isn't elaborated on.
  • Weerd and Bogel were the only prominent characters from the original show who were never seen or mentioned throughout the movie.
    • Also in the retelling of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo in the opening credits, Scooby and Shaggy accidentally opened the Chest of Demons by themselves instead of Weerd and Bogel tricking them into opening it.
    • A possible reference to Weerd and Bogel were the minion ghosts in Vincent and Mortimer's past.
  • It's unclear what really happened to the real Asmodeus, whether he could finally rest or just continued to roam the earth, especially since Velma admitted she made up the story of Asamad's redemption.
  • Velma's explanation of Himalayan hallucinations wouldn't explain the ghosts Shaggy, Daphne, and Scooby saw all over the world in the series, unless these hallucinations followed them. She also makes Vincent sound like a nutcase who's been on a lifelong quest of his own imagination.
  • The credits refer to Noshir Dalal as voicing Benny and Flim-Flam, when he was only voicing Flim-Flam. Benny was someone Flim-Flam was working for. The closed captions also refer to Flim-Flam as Benny.
  • Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is canon to this film (because Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island is a sequel to this movie), yet Velma and Fred say this is their first "real ghost" case.
  • On some TV providers , it says that the movie's original air date is February 5, 2019. Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost is a direct-to-video film, not a television film.

Home media[]

  • US Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost DVD released by Warner Home Video on February 5, 2019.
  • CAN Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost DVD released by Warner Home Video on February 5, 2019.
  • UK Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost DVD released by Warner Home Video on February 11, 2019.
  • AUS Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost DVD released by Warner Home Video on March 25, 2019.
  • AUS Scooby-Doo! 5 Film Collection DVD Box set released by Warner Home Video on November 25, 2020.[3]

Gallery[]

Videos[]

Images[]

Quotes[]

Vincent Van Ghoul: (Chanting):
Once upon a Demon Chest
Where evil spirits manifest,
The best of friends began a quest
And set out like a thing possessed.
In every corner of the land,
With a kid named Flim-Flam and a van,
And steely hearts at their command,
They faced their fears and made their stand.
They thwarted evil Maldor's thirst
And broke the Shadow Demon's curse,
And off to Marrakesh traversed
To rendezvous with something worse.
From witches quoting magic rhyme,
To speeding up the sands of time,
Into Demondo's comic crime,
They fought and caught the demon Slime.
Fantazmo, Rankor, Zimbulu,
Do these sound like good guys to you?
Well, thanks to our intrepid crew
Into the chest they each withdrew.
But now their hunt is nearly through,
Their final mystery pursue,
And capture one last bugaboo,
The 13th Ghost of Scooby-Doo!

References[]

  1. ↑ Jozic, Mike (May 6, 2019). "Curse of the 13th Ghost Interview with Tim Sheridan & Grey Griffin". A Podcast Named Scooby-Doo! Retrieved December 25, 2020.
  2. ↑ Sheridan, Tim (June 16, 2020). "Bogel & Weerd cameos". Twitter. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
  3. ↑ [1] 5 Film Collection

External links[]

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