Scooby Doo: Witch's Ghost VHS

I use to watch this as a kid love Scooby-Doo!!! Introduced it to my son and he loves it to... he is 8 yrs old

a classic. love it

A fairly short Scooby-Doo movie, clocking in at a little more than a hour. Starts to feel like an extended episode, but it goes further. But hey, you're just here for the Hex Girls, aren't you?

In the summer of 1999 my wife was pregnant with our son. Thinking of all of the time I would soon be spending with my little dude, I started watching some of the cartoons I loved as a kid. Scooby was at the top of the list ! In those days people still rented movies from video stores. VHS tapes no less. Just after our son was born in the fall, the Witch's Ghost was released. I rented it the first week it was out in October of '99. I can't tell you how thrilled I was to watch this movie for the first time. This was the Scooby-Doo story us fans deserved.A haunted New England village in fall. A Stephen King-ish horror writer. A Salem type witch story. A group of hot, goth, girl rockers ! I watched it twice before I returned it to the rental shop. It's the perfect Halloween Scooby movie.Fast forward a few years and DVD is all the rage and movie fans are building their own home libraries instead of driving to the video rental store. I bought this title, Zombie Island from 1998, and Alien Invaders from 2000. My son and I have watched them many times. I have had to repurchase them a few times. One of the best things about these three movies is the voice of Shaggy. Scott Innes voices him in the latter two and Billy West does Shaggy for Zombie Island. I like Innes better but the change is seamless and young kids would not notice the acting switch. Innes also voices Scoobert for these movies as well but it's Shaggy that is the stand out. It is my favorite Shaggy voice since Casey Kasem in the original series. When Kasem was younger his voice was also perfect for Shaggy. The first Scooby episode , What a Night for a Knight (also called the Black Knight episode), from 1969, introduces a great Shaggy character voiced to perfection by the mid-thirtyish Kasem. Innes' voice fits Shaggy's personality wonderfully and is a big part of why I love this movie. I think his Scooby is a bit too high pitched but...small issue.Also lending his considerable voice to this movie is Tim Curry. I can't remember ever meeting anyone who doesn't love Curry. He's a great Ben Ravencroft. Daphne is played here by the late Mary Kay Bergman. She too is great and gives Daphne a cutesy, confident, playful voice that works well with the ubiquitous Frank Welker's Fred. My son doesn't like Velma's voice in this movie. BJ Ward is Velma in this, the two movies listed above, and in Cyber Chase from 2001. I like her and think she has the right raspiness and know-it-all attitude to be Velma. The Mayor of Oakhaven is awesome. He sounds like a kind of country-bumpkin Kennedy and instantly alerts you to the New Enlgand location.And then there are the Hex Girls. Ah...if only I were a young, single, Eco-goth, cartoon me...oops. My wife might read this. The Hex girls are wonderful and make more appearances in future Scooby episodes. All three of them are great but like Freddy, I'm stuck on Thorn, the Wiccan (1/16th on her mother's side).I won't go into the plot of the movie because I don't want to spoil it for those who have yet to see it. Needless to say, I am a big Scooby fan ! I am thrilled my now 16 yr old son has watched lots of Scooby-Doo and likes it almost as much as his dad. If you or your kids only watch a few of the Scooby movies this one and Zombie Island are tops for sure. Zombie Island is actually a bit scary for kids though...just a warning. I once came across a thread on Reddit about how scary the now 20-something posters found Zombie Island when they were 8 or 10 yrs old and watched it. So maybe watch that one with your kids just in case. Even if it doesn't scare them, you'll get to watch one of the two best Scooby movies ever made ! Zoinks!!

This is one of my favorite movies from when I was a kid and I wanted my kids to love it too, which they did. I will always love Scooby doo

Before viewing this masterpiece of cinematic magic (`cinemagic', if you will), my best friend and I had assumed we were sitting down for an easy-to-digest animated feature. We had grown up watching "Scooby-Doo!", and suspected the film to be something along the lines of a happy-go-lucky mystery where a biblical moral ending was sure to be its conclusion. We couldn't have been more wrong.The film is based on a true story that took place in the historic town of Oakhaven, Massachusetts. After viewing "...the Witch's Ghost", my best friend and I made a pilgrimage to the famous Salem Trials site- and may I just say, walking on the same grounds that Ben Ravencroft roamed sent shivers down our spines.The filmmakers' depictions of the real life Ben Ravencroft- though at times teetering on the edge of fiction- truly did an overall fantastic job of displaying the historic character as he factually was- a brilliant academic.Scooby and the gang were portrayed very accurately. I was blown away at how the dog actor truly understood and embodied the juxtaposition of his character's plight: how to manage his fear and bravery. How he wasn't even considered for an Academy Award nomination I feel was a crime- though I suppose it has something to do with the Academy's apparent prejudice against animated documentary. But don't get me started.Where do I even begin with the spectacular sonic experience that is Hex Girls? That I had never heard of this all-female-trio with their contrapuntal mastery of a Baroque composer is a crime to my iTunes library. To get my hands on their sheet music would be heavenly. One can tell the three members of Hex Girls come from prestigious musical upbringings. I have never before heard such ambiguous, Romantic-era chordal progressions executed so effectively in rock music. Thorn, the lead singer and guitarist, pulls from her roots of Gospel Chant and applies her lyrical timbre to the eloquent lexicon that is Hex Girls storytelling. I found the filmmakers' choice to not line up the image with what the audience is actually hearing in real time (i.e., the drummer- Dusk- shown not playing on beat, or even playing the wrong drum) genius; such subtlety in their use of desyncronization. How very avant-garde! "Earth, Wind, Fire, and Air" and their self titled hit single, "Hex Girl", both made it to the Top 40 in Canada, Poland, and England.The mise-en-scene in this film is breathtaking. The director of photography should be lauded for his use of chiaroscuro to subtly indicate the psychological angst the characters experience. This is especially poignant in regards to the muted allusions of substance abuse (Scooby Snacks). Also tackled is the prejudice against Wiccans and the bigotry they face throughout the age-old persecution suffered under the colonial tyranny brought on by more widely accepted religious institutions.This film is a cinematic tour de force. I'm glad I bought the DVD from Amazon.com.

Just love Scooby

By far my favorite Scooby-doo movie! I watch it every halloween! I was so sad last year when I realized I wasn’t going to be able to watch it, so of course I had to run to amazon and purchase it to keep the tradition strong! Love this buy, it is truly a must watch for you and your family!

It is a very good animated film. The characters were believable and I liked especially the ghost of Sarah Ravencroft because it was a tiny bit silly. The music was excellent and I liked the song of the Hex girls. The tunes were really, really musical.

Haven't seen this movie since I was a kid and it's still great! Bought a copy for a bit of sentimental watching, came a bit earlier than was estimated which was great. The cover art is a bit thinner than some others so it wrinkles and waves easily. No noticeable damage though so I'm happy.

Junto a "La isla de los zombies", esta película está considerada lo mejor de la franquicia, vueltas de tuerca que revitalizaron sus claves. Para los seguidores de la saga este dvd precisamente (con la franja superior naranja) es una buena opción (si adquieren películas de Zona 1) ya que contiene el doblaje español latino que reconocemos de siempre en este tipo de películas.Aunque pongan Reino Unido, son importaciones del mercado USA.

I am a scooby doo fan and I collect as many scooby doo movies as I can. I am trying to get them all. I loved watching the movie. Will watch it over and over again.

The product came but the delivery person just droped the package in the middle of my deck. He didn't knock or ring bell. But over all love the product.