Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire

Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire is the fifth in a series of direct-to-video films based upon Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on VHS and DVD on March 4, 2003.
== Premise ==
Mystery Inc. infiltrates an Australian rock music festival after the Yowie Yahoo kidnaps the contestants.
== Synopsis ==
There is a legend of a vampire named the Yowie Yahoo, who lives in Vampire Rock in the Australian outback where the "Vampire Rock Music Festival" is being set up. Many people are excited for it, but some don't think it should take place because it would anger the Yowie Yahoo. One such person is Malcolm Illiwara, but the problem is, his own grandson Daniel is the manager of the contest! One night, as Malcolm and his grandson watch a sure-to-win performer named Matt Marvelous, the Yowie Yahoo appears! The Yowie Yahoo and its three vampire minions capture Matt Marvelous and take him away. Everybody is scared, and Malcolm blames the contest for what happened.
Mystery Inc. are in Australia for vacation, after sightseeing in Sydney they decided to go to Vampire Rock and see the music festival. On the way, Scooby-Doo saw some red eyes through bushes and the gang encounters dingoes. When they get to the festival, they are excited to reunite with the Hex Girls.(A band that they previously encountered in Oak Haven) Having heard them stop playing, Daniel and his partner Russell arrive and explain that more performers are quitting after others keep disappearing. They explained that last year, a band named Wildwind disappeared, Malcolm believed they were kidnapped by the Yowie Yahoo and turned into vampires. Fred decides that the gang should go undercover as a band so that they will get kidnapped too.
The next day, they meet Jasper Ridgeway, the former manager of Wildwind. Now he manages the arrogant Bad Omens, Mystery Inc. believes they are the vampires hoping to win the competition. This theory is further supported when Velma found Wildwind stage costumes in Jasper's trailer. Meanwhile, Shaggy and Scooby checked out the concession stands and were attacked by the vampire minions. During the chase, the minions eat garlic, gets covered in jewelry, and appear in mirrors. Eventually, they head towards the stage where the Bad Omens were performing, soon the Yowie Yahoo appeared as well. This proved that the Bad Omens were innocent.
Later that night, the gang met another competing band, Two Skinny Dudes, Barry and Harry. They were apparently exploring Vampire Rock but didn't see any vampires there. Malcom says the Yowie Yahoo could only be defeated with light and insists that they cancel the music festival. Soon the Hex Girls get kidnapped, leading the gang to the caves of Vampire Rock where they discover a hidden passage leading to a secret warehouse filled with special effects equipment. Outside, Shaggy and Scooby are attacked by the dingoes, the rest are ambushed by the vampire minions. The Yowie Yahoo then appeared shooting fireballs at them. When the sun was coming up, the light reflected off of Scooby's dog tag and destroyed the Yowie Yahoo. The dingoes howled making Scooby an honorary dingo. However, the minions were still alive, but with the help of Daniel they were caught in a trap.
The vampire minions were Two Skinny Dudes and Russell, who were actually Wildwind in masks. They wanted to make a comeback but it was against rules for a band to enter the competition twice, so they faked they're disappearances and "became" vampires. They wanted to make Two Skinny Dudes the winner then perform themselves. The other competitors were sent to a scuba diving trip to the Great Barrier Reef, except the Hex Girls who were found by Malcolm in the outback. It was also revealed that the Yowie Yahoo was just a hologram projection they created. Since all the other competitors were technically out, Daniel says that Mystery Inc. wins the competition by default, so they perform at the festival with the Hex Girls.
== Characters ==
Main characters:
* Mystery Inc.
** Scooby-Doo
** Shaggy Rogers
** Fred Jones
** Velma Dinkley
** Daphne Blake
Supporting characters:
* Malcolm Illiwara (only appearance)
* Daniel Illiwara (only appearance)
* Hex Girls
** Thorn
** Luna
** Dusk
* Jasper Ridgeway (only appearance)
* Bad Omens (only appearance)
** Jack (only appearance)
** Queen (only appearance)
** King (only appearance)
Villains:
* Yowie Yahoo (only appearance)(no lines)(projection)
* Yowie Yahoo's minions (only appearance)(no lines)(Wildwind's disguises)
** Wildwind (only appearance)
*** Dark Skull (only appearance)(Russell's disguise)
*** Russell (only appearance)
*** Stormy Weathers (only appearance)(Harry's disguise)
*** Harry (only appearance)
*** Lightning Strikes (only appearance)(Barry's disguise)
*** Barry (only appearance)
* Sea Serpent Smugglers (only appearance)(no lines)(disguise)
** Shark creature/man in costume (only appearance)(no lines)(disguise)
** Peg leg captain/man in costume (only appearance)(no lines)
** Kelp monster/man in costume (only appearance)(no lines)
** Sea Serpent
Other characters:
* Matt Marvelous (only appearance)
* Bondi Beach lifeguards (only appearance)(miscellaneous speaking)
* Great white shark (only appearance)(no lines)
* Australian king parrot (only appearance)(no lines)
* Emu (only appearance)(no lines)
* Frill-necked lizard (only appearance)(no lines)
* Koala (only appearance)(no lines)
* Wombat (only appearance)(no lines)
* Crocodile (only appearance)(no lines)
* Dingoes (only appearance)(no lines)
== Locations ==
* Australia
** Vampire Rock
*** Vampire Rock Music Festival
** Sydney
*** Sydney Harbour
**** Sydney Harbour Bridge
**** Sydney Opera House
*** Bondi Beach
*** Malcolm Illiwara's home
** Great Barrier Reef (mentioned)
* United States (mentioned)
== Objects ==
* Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase
* Pizza
* Doggie bag
* Shaggy's binoculars
* Scooby's binoculars
== Vehicles ==
* Cruise ship
* The Mystery Machine
== Suspects ==
Suspect 	Motive/Reason
Malcolm Illiwara	He warned his grandson against angering the Yowie Yahoo with the music festival.
Jasper Ridgeway 	So that his band win the contest.
Bad Omens 	To win the band contest.
Two Skinny Dudes	To win the band contest. At one point they were the only band left at the contest.
=== Culprits ===
Culprit	Motive/Reason
Russell as Dark Skull
Barry as Lightning Strikes
Harry as Stormy Weathers	To win the band contest.
== Cast ==
Frank Welker 	Scooby-Doo
Fred Jones
Dingoes
Casey Kasem 	Shaggy Rogers
Nicole Jaffe 	Velma Dinkley
Heather North Kenney 	Daphne Blake
Jeff Bennett 	Jasper Ridgeway
Jack
Lifeguard 1
Kimberly Brooks 	Luna
Jennifer Hale 	Thorn
Queen
Tom Kenny 	Harry
Stormy Weathers
Barry
Lightning Strikes
Lifeguard 2
Phil LaMarr 	Daniel Illiwara
King
Michael Neill 	Russell
Dark Skull
Matt Marvelous
Kevin Michael Richardson	Malcolm Illiwara
Yowie Yahoo
Crocodile
Jane Wiedlin 	Dusk
== Songs ==
Song 	Credits 	Performed by 	Character performance by
"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?"	Written by David Mook and Ben Raleigh 	Gigi Meroni and Rich Dickerson 	N/A
"Gotta Go" 	Written by Rich Dickerson 	Gigi Meroni and Rich Dickerson 	N/A
"Getaway Yeah" 	Written by Rich Dickerson, Gigi Meroni, and Carter Armstrong	Holland Greco 	N/A
"Hex Girl" 	Written by Bodie Chandler and Glenn Leopold
Produced by Gary Lionelli and Bodie Chandler	Kimberly Brooks, Jennifer Hale, and Jane Wiedlin	The Hex Girls
"Who Do Voodoo" 	Written by Jane Wiedlin 	Jane Wiedlin 	The Hex Girls
"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?"	Written by David Mook and Ben Raleigh 	Krystal Harris 	Velma Dinkley
== Continuity ==
* This is the second appearance of the Hex Girls; they previously appeared in another DTV Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost. Due to the lightened tone of this movie compared to the former, the exact details of their previous encounter isn't brought up. Their appearance and personalities have also been toned down dramatically to be less frightening for younger audiences (and likewise for the lightened tone of this movie).
* The scuba gear Shaggy and Scooby quickly changed into while Wildwind explained they gave all the kidnapped bands free trips to the Great Barrier Reef, were the same exact ones they used in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode A Clue for Scooby Doo.
* The bikini Daphne wore would later appear again in the What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode She Sees Sea Monsters by the Sea Shore. The bikini design would also appear in Reef Grief! However, the green in her bikini top and bottom was replaced with the same light purple as her headband.
== Production ==
== Notes/Trivia ==
* This film takes the series back to the original format in terms of the "just a guy in a mask" story (even though the bad guys used makeup this time). The old Hanna-Barbera sound effects (including "Castle Thunder" and remaking the 1969 background music of Ted Nichols) and the 1971 zooming HB logo at the end of the credits (but without the music) also return, and reunites the surviving cast (Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe, and Heather North Kenney) of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (season two) and The New Scooby-Doo Movies. Don Messick, Scooby's original voice, died in 1997.
* This is the 1st DTV to be animated in the What's New, Scooby-Doo? animation style. However, in Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster to Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword, the gang wear their clothes in What's New, Scooby Doo?
* Although the movie was released in 2003, it has a copyright year of 2002. This suggests the movie was produced and completed in 2002, but it was held over to spring 2003 due to the release of the live-action Scooby-Doo film on home video.
* On their way to Vampire Rock, Scooby & Shaggy are playing what appears to be a video game based on Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase from the previous film, Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase.
* The shark biting away at Scooby and Shaggy's surfboard is a reference to the opening to The Scooby-Doo Show (originally taken from There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark) when a shark bites away at Scooby's water skis, complete with identical sound effect.
* Velma's revealed to love singing (as well as having a beautiful singing voice) but claims that she doesn't like singing in front of so many people, as she suffers from stage fright.
* This is the next animated movie to make use of the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! theme song, so it seems befitting that the gang would be the ones to perform it. The song would later return in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Scoobynatural, and SCOOB!. Along with a short variation of the song as the theme song for Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
* Kasem and Welker did an audio commentary as Shaggy, Scooby, and Fred, for one of the DVD special features. (During the opening credits, Shaggy humorously remarks, "Who's this, Casey Kasem, as Shaggy; I'm me, and I play myself, and Scooby wants to know who this Frank Welker is.")
* The Yowie Yahoo is actually supposed to be a bipedal ape-like creature similar to Bigfoot and the Yeti.
* The previous film, Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, this film, and the next film, Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico were dedicated to Hanna-Barbera co-founder William Hanna.
* Velma has a problem with high-heels.
* The three Wildwind members are some of the few villains to use makeup instead of masks (although they did use rubber masks to alter their appearances outside their costumes).
=== Miscellaneous ===
* Disguises:
* Traps:
* Clues:
* Scooby Snacks bribe:
* "Ruh-roh" count:
* "Zoinks" count:
* "Jeepers" count:
* "Jinkies" count:
* Running gags: Each time Shaggy plays his guitar, a string breaks.
=== Cultural references ===
* At the end of the movie, where the dingoes are howling, one of them is holding it's leg in the air. This is an exact reference to the animated DTV Balto II: Wolf Quest, where Aleu would hold her leg in the air when she howled.
* Aboriginal folklore does tell of a hairy humanoid marsupial, more akin to Bigfoot or the Yeti. It is most commonly referred to in English as the Yowie (name first used in the 20th century), but there are claims it is more correctly called a Yahoo (name first used in the 19th century). Like Bigfoot, some have tried, unsuccessfully, to hunt it down. The creature is not normally associated with vampires.
* A creature from Aboriginal folklore with a similar name, which is vampiric, is the Yara-ma-yha-who.
=== Adaptations ===
* Scholastic published a novelization using the same name on March 1, 2003. It was adapted by Jesse Leon McCann.
=== Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches ===
* None known.
=== Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities ===
* The accents of Malcolm, Daniel, and Russell are that of New Zealanders and not of Australians.
* While you can pay to climb to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, there are no telescopes on the top, and you can't see Bondi Beach from there.
* Australia has no native cats (aside from domesticated and feral cats), and the dingos seen in this movie look more like wolves rather than what they truly should look like (large golden-yellow dogs with curved tails).
* It is never explained how the Yowie Yahoo could use lightning beams to pull the performers up to him when he would attack and kidnap the bands.
* Some scenes show cars driving on the right, but this is set in Australia, where cars drive on the left. Similarly, as the Mystery Machine is a left hand drive vehicle it needs special permission to drive on some Australian roads.
* Malcolm is shown sending smoke signals. This is a tradition of Native Americans, not indigenous Australians.
* It seems strange that Jasper wouldn't recognize Wildwind without their makeup, considering that he used to be their manager and should have at least one time seen the band without their makeup.
* In real life, female red kangaroos are bluish-gray, and have pouches. The males (which are reddish-orange) don't have a pouch.
* When Russell and the Two Skinny Dudes are unmasked and Daphne makes them up into their Wildwind look, she is shown doing so with a single small makeup brush, but it doesn't explain how she was able to make Stormy Weathers and Lightning Strikes's hair longer when making them up, as their true hairstyles were shown to be noticeably shorter.
* Dark Skull claims that Wildwind "didn't really kidnap anybody", but sending the Bad Omens and Matt Marvelous on free, consensual vacations doesn't erase taking the bands away against their will. They also abandoned the Hex Girls in the middle of nowhere, presumably without food or water, which could've endangered the latter's lives.
== In other languages ==
Language	Name 	Meaning
Russian 	Скуби-Ду! И легенда о Вампире 	Scooby Doo! And the Legend of the Vampire
Turkish 	Scooby Doo ve Vampir Efsanesi 	Scooby-Doo: And the Vampire Legend
Greek 	Ο Scooby-Doo και ο θρύλος του Βρικόλακα	Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire
Polish 	Scooby-Doo i Legenda Wampira 	Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire
== Home media ==
* Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire VHS released by Warner Home Video on March 4, 2003.
* Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire DVD released by Warner Home Video on March 4, 2003.
* Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire Blu-ray Disc released by Warner Home Video on March 12, 2013.
== Quotes ==
== Gallery ==
== References ==
# ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie
# ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yara-ma-yha-who
== External links ==
* Buy from Amazon Video (US)
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