Year Of The Vampire: Scooby-Doo And The Legend Of The Vampire Is Part Of An Excellent Horror Kid Starter Pack – /Film

Still, "Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire" is a fun-loving, original vampire story in a franchise that's known for introducing kids to the popular monster canon. The movie sees the Scooby Gang on vacation in Australia, where they decide to attend a music festival at a place called Vampire Rock. "Legend of the Vampire" marked a new, brighter era of Scooby animation that would carry the franchise through the next decade. It's a jarring change-up from the previous four films, but it fits the sun-soaked Australian outback landscape. It's also one of the only films to reunite the series' surviving original castmates, including Casey Kasem, Frank Welker, Nicole Jaffe, and Heather North.

Once they arrive in the outback, Mystery Inc. reunites with The Hex Girls, the beloved trio of Wiccan goth girl rockers (and unofficial queer icons) who were first introduced in "Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost." Their good times are cut short, though, when they become embroiled in a mystery involving a missing band called Wildwind and a local vampire. There are also some vague "Picnic At Hanging Rock" vibes, as Wildwind disappeared around the mysterious red-orange landscape of Vampire Rock.

For some reason, the movie calls its main vampire the Yowie Yahoo, a real name for a Sasquatch-like outback cryptid, despite the fact that the creature's vampiric tendencies more closely resemble the Aboriginal myth of the tree-dwelling bloodsucker Yara-ma-yha-who. This movie treats Aboriginal culture with too much levity, despite its earnest attempts to educate audiences and the Scooby gang on Indigenous culture. To this day, though, it remains the only take on these unique local myths I've ever seen or heard of on screen.

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