He’s a now incarcerated crim that was smuggling gold or some other high-value substance underneath Niagara Falls. are in the middle of nowhere with nobody but each other in a thunderstorm and an insane GP on the loose is enough to terrify anyone. It’s got a suitably chilling atmosphere and one of the most clichéd monsters ever (quite a feat given that Scooby-Doo is one big cliché): the mad doctor figure.įear factor: the idea that Mystery Inc. You’ve got your band of stylish youngsters who, when on vacation, come across an abandoned sanatorium in the middle of nowhere. “The Harum Scarum Sanatorium” is, essentially, a cartoon horror movie. A man desperate for money who in a bid to get money spends a helluva lot of money on a electricity suit. Voltner, the docile drudge of Winterhaven’s mayor, a man desperate for money. Who’s the villain? As I said before, it’s Mr. This “little fright” personified is the 10,000 Volt Ghost, the one monster I most certainly wouldn’t like to grab me. Shocker.įear factor: We all get a little fright when we get a mild electrical shock. The only man on set with access to the costume. Who’s the villain? Believe it or not, the man behind the ape mask is in fact Carl the stuntman(!). He actually toys with the gang and even whips out his own Scooby mask because everyone has one of them (I did). There’s even a haunted mansion and a display of alarming bitchiness from Velma towards Daphne – “well, with your luck, Daph, the next button you push will bring the roof down.”įear factor: The ape itself is rather threatening and for once the man behind the mask doesn’t just run around, freaking everyone out. He’s shooting a King Kong B-movie rip-off and he’s enlisted the five of them as extras but naturally disaster strikes when a rampageous ape scares everyone off.
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In “Never Ape An Ape-Man” the gang travel to meet one of Daphne’s many uncles who is conveniently a movie director. But I guess they thought it sounded better. Be warned that I may get bored with writing and go off and play outside.įor starters, I don’t know why the titular primate is called an ‘Ape-Man’ when he is quite clearly just an ape and it doesn’t even rhyme. So sit back, relax and allow yourself to be taken back to a time when people were genuinely puzzled by Scooby-Doo.Īnd remember, don’t take this seriously (I’m not), I am speaking to you through this article as an eight year-old. With Halloween approaching, I thought it suitable to cast my eye back to the crime-solving hound’s earlier adventures and determine which episode really is the scariest. Scooby-Doo scared me and elated me at the same time, so I’ve seen every episode. As Miranda Hart once put it, “it’s one of those, I don’t want to look but just can’t stop looking things.” But, like the pepperpots of Doctor Who, I watched the television with one eye open. I’m too young to remember the Daleks in their ’60s heyday when they drove audiences out of the room with their immortal cry of “exterminate” and so the program that sent me quivering with fear was Scooby-Doo. I tried to calm my mail-horror nerves by downing bagfuls of Scooby Snacks – but to no avail – I simply have no taste for horror films, for gore, for gratuitous violence.Īnd that’s why, when I was a small child, I would cower behind the sofa when the Scooby-Doo theme played. I averted my eyes and whispered “jeepers” when Skinner impaled his chin in Hot Fuzz. I cried “zoinks!” and jumped into Shaggy’s arms watching Shaun of the Dead.
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