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Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is the first of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. The movie was produced from 1995 to 1998 and was released on September 22, 1998, and it was the first Scooby-Doo movie to be produced by Warner Bros. Animation, though distributed by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. The Mystery, Inc. gang, which includes Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma, travel to Moonscar Island which is located in the Louisiana bayou. The film was directed by Hiroshi Aoyama, Kazumi Fukushima, and Jim Stenstrum, based on Glenn Leopold's unfinished Swat Kats episode "The Curse of Kataluna", and written by Leopold and Davis Doi. The film and later following two films had a darker tone then the original cartoons. The song "It's Terror Time Again", sung by Skycycle, played after Scooby Doo and the others found out that zombies were real. The title track was performed by Third Eye Blind. American actor Billy West provided the voice for Shaggy Rogers in this film, as Casey Kasem refused to take the role as he had previously asked for Shaggy to be a vegeterian but didn't get his wish so Billy West took over. When it came to the production of the next film Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, Scott Innes, who provided the voice for Scooby in this film and three other, replacing Don Messick after his death, offered to provide Shaggy's voice, therefore Billy West was no longer needed. As Heather North was unable to take the role, Mary Kay Bergman plays Daphne in this film and the next two, but Grey DeLisle took over after Bergman tragically committed suicide in November 1999. DeLisle later continues voicing Daphne in more Scooby series and films (except Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire and Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico). B.J. Ward who played Velma in the Johnny Bravo crossover episode, reprised her role in this film and the next three, as Nicole Jaffe, Pat Stevens, or Marla Frumkin were unable to take the role. Frank Welker is the only actor from the original series to reprise his role. The film was dedicated in honor of Don Messick. This was the first Scooby-Doo direct to video release to receive a PG rating in the United Kingdom as all others have been rated U. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island featured real monsters instead of simple bad guys in masks. This was heavily promoted before its release including a tagline used during commercials stating, "This time, the monsters are real." This theme would be followed up in several subsequent direct-to-video Scooby-Doo animated films released in the late-1990s and early-2000s. Although real monsters had previously appeared in most of the 1980s Scooby-Doo series and features, this continuity was ignored with the characters said to be encountering real monsters for the first time. After Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, the direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movies would not feature real monsters again until Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King, which came out ten years after Zombie Island did. The tone of the three supernatural-themed movies were much darker and frightening then the original cartoons, as shown in Zombie Island for being the first Scooby-Doo movie to have both on and off-screen deaths (the main antagonists and pirates respectively). In addition the film also makes no reference to Scrappy-Doo, restoring the original line-up for the show. In this movie and the next three, a new Mystery Machine was used that looked like a bus instead of a van, possibly to add in realism in the films as well to reflect the era of when the films were made. The videos sold well and received generally positive reviews in the press,[citation needed] leading to a series of future direct-to-video Scooby-Doo feature films, and a new television series, What's New, Scooby-Doo?. The movie currently holds a rating of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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