I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I was a kid I used to watch the cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and some of the other Scooby-Doo tv shows all the time. There was 13 Ghosts and the multiple meets the episodes where Scooby-Doo and the gang would meet up with celebrities or other tv characters. As I got older I used to watch episodes randomly whenever I saw them airing late at night. Over the years they started making new shows and movies, including the live action ones, and to this day I still have few that I watch every October. My favorite is Scooby-Doo and The Witch’s Ghost, which has the ever wonderful Tim Curry in it.

You’re probably thinking, Tim Curry really? But I’m not kidding he totally shows up in this movie. He has done some other voice work, including Nigel from The Wild Thornberrys, but he just doesn’t seem like a kid’s tv show actor. In Scooby-Doo and the Witch’s Ghost, Curry voices the character Ben Ravencroft, a horror writer, I think he’s supposed to echo Stephen King, from Oakhaven, Massachusetts. He meets the Scooby gang at a museum, while they are staking out a mystery scene. After helping them stop the thieves Ben invites them to his hometown where, low and behold, the town’s people insist they are being haunted by a witch’s ghost, which is helping them promote their brand new Puritan Village. This ghost just happens to be Ben’s ancestor Sarah. He insists he wants to find her spell book because it will prove her innocence, because the town says that she was a witch back in the 1600s.

Ben, Velma, Daphne, and Fred try to see the witch’s ghost at an event the town is holding during a big fall festival. Though they don’t see the witch, Scooby and Shaggy insist they saw not one, but four witches! We get to meet some of my favorite guest characters in the Scooby-Doo Universe, The Hex Girls. They are a goth girl music trio and when I was a kid I just wanted to dress like them and start a rock band. That totally never happened, though I do have both of their songs from this movie memorized. A real witch’s ghost does show up and after one mystery gets solved the gang finds themselves fighting not just a ghost, but Ben too. I mean he’s voiced by Tim Curry so it isn’t a huge surprise. The man can do an evil voice.

If you want a fun and spooky little movie to watch, it’s totally kid friendly so you could watch it with anyone, I’d definitely check out Scooby-Doo and the Witch’s Ghost.