Imagine Jack Ketchum - who gave us the girl next door, offspring, the woman, and a number of other terrifying novels and stories that haven't yet made it to the big screen - wrote an episode of SCOOBY-DOO, where are you?. That's what we have here - as with "old-school" SCOOBY, any ghosts are metaphorical, and ordinary humans are behind it all. Except these individuals are nothing like ordinary, and a bit short of human!
There's comedy, here, but it's dark, a little bitter, and largely hangs on the translation of Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby into Chad, Gwen, Nancy, Floyd and Hamlet. But if you're looking for guffaws and knee-slappers, you've come to the wrong movie. The makers are playing it all straight and for adults, so this isn't exactly a movie you can sit down and watch with your small children.
It's fun and stands on its own as a horror film, even without the SD references. If you and your friends have never seen the original Scooby-Doo cartoons, you should be able to enjoy this on its own merits. The people complaining are just mad because they didn't get the movie they wanted - and that might be at the fault of the marketing department, because they did kind of set up to sell people a Scooby-Doo movie, but there are very few of the cartoons tropes at work.
Anyhow, if you can put Scooby and the gang out of your head, and you're a horror fan, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to enjoy this for what it is - part homage, part gritty, visceral horror!
There's comedy, here, but it's dark, a little bitter, and largely hangs on the translation of Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby into Chad, Gwen, Nancy, Floyd and Hamlet. But if you're looking for guffaws and knee-slappers, you've come to the wrong movie. The makers are playing it all straight and for adults, so this isn't exactly a movie you can sit down and watch with your small children.
It's fun and stands on its own as a horror film, even without the SD references. If you and your friends have never seen the original Scooby-Doo cartoons, you should be able to enjoy this on its own merits. The people complaining are just mad because they didn't get the movie they wanted - and that might be at the fault of the marketing department, because they did kind of set up to sell people a Scooby-Doo movie, but there are very few of the cartoons tropes at work.
Anyhow, if you can put Scooby and the gang out of your head, and you're a horror fan, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to enjoy this for what it is - part homage, part gritty, visceral horror!