[intense music]
[both whimpering]
Head for the swamp boat, Scoob!
(both) Whoa!
Now!
We got him!
So after Oldsy pulled the bank heist
he hid the money in the swap
till he could come back and claim it.
(Velma) 'He invented the myth of the swamp creature'
'in order to scare people away.'
[whimpering]
'That way, he could search for the money'
'without anyone interfering.'
And I would have gotten away with it, too, if--
If it hadn't been for us meddling kids, right?
Got it. Thanks.
Ow! My arm!
Like, nice meeting you. Take care.
Keep it real. We'll do lunch.
[slurps] Reah, runch.
[tires screech]
Shaggy, Scooby, we weren't done with our wrap-up.
I know, but if we don't hurry, we'll never make it
to Velma's aunt and uncle's in time for Halloween.
Wow. So this is what it's like
to be in the backseat. It's cool.
Uh, Halloween's not until tomorrow night.
Yeah, but your aunt and uncle live in Banning Junction.
It's like the place to spend the holiday.
We have to get there early if we want to beat the crowd.
Uh, speaking of driving, Shaggy
it looks like you're kind of riding the clutch
a bit hard there.
Candy, rockin' with Kiss, more candy.
- Ha ha ha! - Kiss?
You might want to just put it in third.
She's kind of a delicate piece of machinery, Shag.
They're playing at the big masquerade ball tomorrow night.
I'm gonna ask Paul Stanley to sign my forehead.
Reah, me, too!
[gears grinding]
You're killing my mystery machine!
Who's a good mystery machine? Who's a good girl?
Yes, you are. Yes, you are.
Jeepers! It sure is spooky out there.
(Shaggy) 'Yeah, isn't it great?'
(Velma) Shaggy, you think it's great?
Yeah, 'cause it's not regular scary.
It's Halloween scary.
I bet they've been working on these creepy fields for weeks.
And...synchronize watches.
- Roger. - The official countdown begins.
Only 23 hours and 59 minutes until Halloween night.
Well, I'm looking forward to spending time
with my Aunt Meg and Uncle Evan.
They're so excited we're coming.
They said they can't wait to see us.
Freeze, you trespassing cowards!
Velma! Oh, my goodness! We're so sorry!
It's alright, just our niece and her friends.
Hi. Nice to meet you and all your pointy farm tools.
Aunt Meg, Uncle Evan, what's going on?
(Meg) Someone has been slashing and burning
the cornfields at night.
The police have no clue who's doing it or why.
Huh. Probably some dumb teenagers
who think it's funny to mess with folks' livelihood.
[laughs] Yeah, dumb teenagers.
Dumb, dumb, dumb teenagers.
Know who's dumb? Ha ha. Teenagers.
Reah. Rumb reenagers.
Velma, you rember your cousin Marcy.
Jinkies, Marcy!
It's been so long. Look at you.
And look at you! You haven't changed at all.
In fact, are you wearing the exact same outfit?
Well, you kids sure picked a great year to be here.
Banning Junction is celebrating
its 100 years of Halloween anniversary.
That's right, and legend has it
Hank Banning's ghost is due to show up, too.
Hank Banning? The founder of the town?
Yep. He ran it as mayor for over 30 years
until his wits got the best of him.
(Meg) 'Hank became paranoid'
'started hearing voices, seeing things.'
He became unfit to serve in office
so the townspeople voted him out.
[whimpers]
[crash]
[electronic laugh]
Before he died on Halloween night
he put a curse on the town.
His spirit would return after 100 years
to seek revenge on the town that wronged him.
[thunder rumbling]
[all gasp]
Of course, most people don't believe that
but we have a record turnout this year.
Folks want to say they were here the night
the legend was supposed to come true.
Yeah, and to see Kiss play the masquerade ball.
Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!
[thunder rumbling]
[gasps] There's something out there!
I could have sworn I saw something
big and creepy in the window.
It was probably your own reflection.
And there's another reason this year is special.
Come on, Marcy, don't be shy. Tell them.
She's been crowned this year's corn princess.
She'll be queen of the masquerade ball.
- Marcy, that's so exciting. - Congrats.
Wow. That is so neat, Marcy.
Neat? How very retro of you, blondie.
I like that.
Well, I suppose we should all turn in.
- Got a big day tomorrow. - Good idea, dad.
I'll show everyone to their rooms.
The corn princess needs her sleep. Hmm-m.
Can you get the bags, Daisy? Thanks.
Wow. Looks like you can bench 220. Am I right?
Umph!
[growls]
[hisses]
Aah!
[dramatic music]
[both gasp]
Aah!
[tires screech]
Ah.
[laughs]
[gasps]
Pretty cool, huh? Ha ha.
I got it at Ye Old Costume Shoppe.
Raggy.
I can't wait to go trick-or-treating.
Think of all the candy we'll get
in eight hours and forty-seven minutes.
[slurps]
I just love Halloween, don't you, Daphne?
I remember our first like it was yesterday.
'Evan and I didn't have much money'
'so our jack-o'-lantern was used. Ha ha ha.'
Then you just gently dip and turn.
Oops. You got a little caramel on your cheek.
[pop]
- Huh! - Oops. My bad.
Jinkies. This is incredible, Uncle Evan.
I can't believe how crowded Banning Junction is.
Amazing, isn't it?
The legend has made this the best turnout in years.
Ha! Too bad it can't happen every year.
Mayor Green, Eldon Reed, this is my niece Velma.
She and her friends are spending the holiday with us.
Everyone come quick! It happened again!
(Meg) Who would do something like this?
Now, that's strange.
'The only tracks here are the ones we just made.'
But that's impossible.
Everything leaves tracks in a cornfield, even animals.
It's like something just dropped down from the sky.
(Shaggy) 'Kind of freaky out here, huh, Scoob?'
Reah.
Hey.
Like, stop, you cat burglar.
Hey, like, where'd he go?
[gulps] Yikes!
Shaggy, what's the matter?
(Velma) 'You can't tell from the ground, but from up here, it's obvious.'
'They're all different patterns'
and each one is a traditional symbol of Halloween.
What's this? That's odd.
What's a glove doing up here?
From the looks of it
this water tower hasn't been used in years.
Forget about the glove.
What could have made those freaky patterns?
It's obvious, isn't it?
Hank Banning made those patterns.
You-you mean as in the guy
who's been dead for a hundred years?
- That Hank Banning? - The same.
He made a prophecy that there would be signs
in the fields foretelling his return.
Agnes, that's ridiculous. It's just an old legend.
That's right.
Nothing more than an old wives' tale
invented to scare little kids.
You didn't call it an old wives' tale
when you were encouraging tourists
to spend their money to come here, Mr. Mayor.
The only ones who will survive are those who have prepared.
Lock yourselves in your basements
with canned goods and water.
It's your only hope.
Oh, Agnes, stop. You're just trying to scare everyone.
And it's, like, totally working.
This is going from good Halloween scary
to bad old regular scary.
Heed the warnings in the fields.
The end is near.
Tonight, Hank Banning will rise from the dead
to seek his revenge.
Tonight? Oh-oh!
Like, does-do-do, does Kiss know about this?
Do you really think the legend is true?
The ghost of the dead guy is coming back for revenge?
Relax, Shaggy. There's no such thing as ghosts.
I bet someone's behind all this, but who?
(all) Hmm?
Marcy.
What? Why would you suspect her?
- She's, she's so innocent. - And my cousin.
Oh, I don't know. Call it women's intuition.
Well, I think we should split up and look for clues.
Velma, Daphne, and I will head to the library
to research the town's history.
Shaggy, you and Scooby go to Agnes' house
and see if you can find out anything more
about the Hank Banning ghost story.
Why can't we go to the library
and you guys go and interview the creepy old lady?
Okay, sure.
First, you'll need to pull every book
magazine and almanac on the region.
Then cross-reference it with the turn-of-the-century folklore
which you can find in the microfiche archives.
You lost them at book.
Hello! Anybody home?
Mrs., uh, Agnes?
Let's look around, Scoob. Maybe we can find some clues.
[slurps]
(Shaggy) Hey, Scoob, come check this out.
Boo!
Maybe Agnes is the one behind all this
like she's taking it upon herself
to make sure Hank's prophecy comes true.
I mean, she did seem nuttier than a fruitcake.
[imitating Agnes] "His ghost will come back
to haunt the town on Halloween night."
Ooh-h.
[whimpers]
She's right behind me, isn't she?
Didn't your mas teach you to knock before enterin'?
reowr
[both whimpering]
Hey, wait a minute. This isn't the bakery.
Like, let's get out of here, Scoob.
whoosh
Look at this, apparently there's a food processing plant
just outside of town.
Seems they've been steadily buying up
properties over the years.
And the corn fields where the patterns appeared
are the last independently owned fields in the area.
And guess who owns the processing plant.
Eldon Reed.
Fred, Velma, Debbie, what are you doing here?
- It's Daphne. - Just some research.
- What about you? - Studying.
They're making us take electrical engineering
in school, so..
Engineering? Wow!
I was just on my way home to get ready
for tonight's masquerade ball.
Hey, that's right. You're the corn princess.
Man, you must be so excited.
I guess it's one way to spend my birthday.
Marcy! I didn't know today was your birthday.
Yep. I'm 18.
Able to legally...vote.
Marcy, where were you this morning
before you met us in the Town Square?
- Daphne! - No, it's okay, Velma.
I was at the mall. I work part-time at Khaki Corner.
- Can anyone confirm this? - Sure.
The security guard, my assistant manager
the guy who works at Pretzel Nation.
In fact, there's an in-store security camera
that has me on tape.
Uh-huh.
And do you have access to this alleged tape?
Oh, please.
'You can't even see her face.'
That could be anyone.
(male #1) 'Hey, Marcy.'
'How's the corn princess today, huh?'
Well, it's official. Uh-huh. We're missing Halloween.
Oh, come on. We can still have fun out here.
- Shall I tell a ghost story? - No!
No way.
What's that?
[all gasp]
[rustling]
Is it the ghost? Is it?
[growls]
Yike!
[laughs]
Scooby, you scared poor Shaggy to death.
(all) Huh?
Scooby, that's enough. We get it.
[all gasp]
(Daphne) 'The scarecrow! It's alive!'
They're all alive.
Oh!
Run!
[screaming]
[whirring]
Head for that old barn.
The doors, they're locked.
[all gasp]
[whirring]
(Shaggy) 'Attaboy, Scoob.'
[laughs]
Look.
[crackling]
They're robots!
(Velma) 'Someone must be controlling them with a remote.'
Get ready for the waterworks, Scoob.
We've got more company.
'Like, where are they going?'
Whoever's controlling them must be sending them
somewhere else, but where?
I've got a plan. Shaggy and Scooby.
'You go undercover as scarecrows'
'replacing the two we short-circuited.'
Okay, anyone else have a plan?
We'll follow behind using the shortwave radio
in the mystery machine to find out
where the signal's coming from.
Anyone at all? Don't be shy. Just shout it out.
Look at the bright side, Shaggy.
You'll finally get to dress up for Halloween.
Hmm.
[indistinct chattering]
Who are you supposed to be?
Hong Kong Phooey.
Number one super guy.
Pfft. Teenagers. No sense of history.
(Shaggy) Like, do you know where we're going, Scoob?
- Uh-uh. - Like, me, neither.
I've got it, the signal is coming from
inside the Town Hall?
Hey, no need to push.
Uh, plenty of Halloween fun for everyone.
Ugh!
(Shaggy) I've got a bad feeling about this.
Carl, I thought we told you to meet us by the snack table.
Honestly, sometimes it's like you don't even have a brain.
And now, give it up for our special guests.
The hottest band in the world...Kiss.
[crowd cheering]
Happy Halloween, uh..
- Banning Junction. - Banning Junction!
Let's make some noise.
[Kiss singing "Shout It Out Loud"]
♪ Well the night's begun and you want some fun ♪
♪ Do you think you're gonna find it ♪
♪ Think you're gonna find it ♪
♪ You got to treat yourself like number one ♪
♪ Do you need to be reminded ♪
♪ Need to be reminded ♪
♪ It doesn't matter what you do or say ♪
♪ Just forget the things that you've been told ♪
♪ We can't do it any other way ♪
♪ Everybody's got to rock 'n' roll ♪
♪ Oh oh ooh.. ♪
[crowd screaming]
I am the ghost of Hank Banning
and I have returned to seek my revenge.
Prepare to meet your doom!
Hey, Paul, what should we do?
What we always do
keep playing till the cops come.
[crackling]
♪ Shout it shout it shout it out loud ♪
♪ You've got to have a party ♪
♪ Shout it shout it shout it out loud ♪
♪ Turn it up louder ♪
♪ Shout it shout it shout it out loud ♪
♪ Everybody shout it now ♪
♪ Shout it shout it shout it out loud ♪
♪ Oh yeah ♪
♪ Shout it shout it shout it out loud ♪
Scooby-Doo, where are you?
♪ Shout it shout it shout it out loud ♪
♪ And everybody shout it out ♪
♪ Shout it shout it ♪
♪ Shout it out loud ♪
Looks like our ghost is just a projection.
Then whoever's behind this must be inside this booth.
- There's no one here. - I don't understand it.
Who would go to such lengths just to upstage Halloween?
That's it! I know who's behind this.
Follow me.
If my hunch is right, it's..
(all) 'Marcy?'
I knew it.
Anyone who wears that much eye shadow is bad news.
Marcy, why would you do something like this?
You're a corn princess, for goodness sake.
Why? Why?
Do you have any idea what today is?
Of course, dear. It's Halloween.
And my birthday, mother.
How would you like it if your birthday
was completely overshadowed every year of your life?
When Daphne asked who would wanna upstage Halloween
I realized it had to be Marcy
whose birthday gets upstaged every year.
That's when I remembered the video of her at the mall.
(Daphne) I knew it. I knew that wasn't her.
(Velma) Uh, no, it was her
but I remembered seeing the glove
we found in the water tower
in the background of the footage.
I just wanted to scare everyone and ruin Halloween
so I wouldn't ever have to play second fiddle
to that dumb holiday again.
Marcy learned how to build the scarecrows
and remote control in her electrical engineering
class at school.
She used them to create
the patterns in the fields
foretelling the return of Hank Banning
like the legend predicted.
This is all our fault.
I can't believe we let a holiday
come before the birthday of our own corn princess.
Well, seeing as how no one was hurt
I think we can arrange for Marcy
to make up for this with community service.
Well, Marcy, I hope you've learned a lesson
from all of this.
I know I have.
So, who do I talk to about getting paid?
Oh, blondie?
I'll be out in 300 hours.
This is the best Halloween ever.
Hey, it's still Halloween night.
We still have time to go trick-or-treating.
Uh-huh.
Like, I had no idea I was so handsome.
[all laugh]
[groans]
I can't eat one more piece of candy.
Me, neither.
Mmm. Nougat.
Nougat? Yecch.
(Fred) 'This sure was one memorable Halloween.'
Yecch.
See you next year, Marcy.
Orange really is her color, don't you think?
Well, my cousin always did have a wild imagination.
'A guy who's been dead a hundred years'
coming back to seek his revenge?
As if anyone would believe such a silly story.
[all laugh]
reowr
[laughs]
Scooby-Dooby...Doo?
[instrumental music]
♪ Scarecrows walking 'round ♪
♪ Scaring everyone in town ♪
♪ Black cats make it worse ♪
♪ Carry out a curse ♪
♪ On a dead walking mirror breaking ♪
♪ Moon shaking Halloween night ♪