

#Drain the swamp song series
The success of those caused a wholesale revival of the franchise, culminating in a live-action film and the first new TV series in over a decade, What's New, Scooby-Doo?. The film's success led to the creation of three more direct-to-video movies covering mysteries Scooby and the gang would solve as adults, starting with Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost. And there was no contrived story with a guy in a mask, there were real zombies. note Although the back cover mentioned that they do make it out alive. The story appealed to older viewers with death as part of the backstory, and the end result for the gang if they didn't win. The pop songs of past cartoons gave way to Alternative and Metal music. Characters were more fleshed out and three-dimensional, especially the newly empowered Daphne. after their adventures were done, which would be touched on again in The Movie, but with less success. Directed by Jim Stenstrum and released on September 22, 1998, the film is animated with a more dark and realistic feel to it, and featured a somewhat cynical/mature look at what happened to Mystery Inc. With a journey into relatively mature writing by Glenn Leopold, Zombie Island marked a high point in the Scooby-Doo franchise and a venture in the opposite direction most Scooby-Doo movies took. It had sleek animation, dark colors, and featured a seemingly dark and potentially scary movie, and it featured Scooby-Doo and Shaggy running for their lives. Then, trailers on VHS tapes of several Warner Bros. It had been 6 years since A Pup Named Scooby-Doo was cancelled, the only sign of life in the franchise being a made-for-TV-movie in 1994 called Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights in which Scooby barely appeared, and the ever-present reruns of previous series.

In 1997, the Scooby-Doo franchise seemed to have run its course. It's a terrifying time!" - "It's Terror Time Again" by Skycycle They've got you running through the night
