{"id":79384,"date":"2018-05-10T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=79384"},"modified":"2018-05-11T07:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T12:45:26","slug":"ghostblood-is-the-13th-ghost-of-scooby-doo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/ghostblood-is-the-13th-ghost-of-scooby-doo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostblood Is the 13th Ghost of Scooby Doo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 80s were not a kind decade for puppy-actor turned international superstar Scoobert “Scooby” Doo. Despite the world swinging from his metaphorical nuts (little known fact: Scooby-Doo was actually neutered preemptively in 1968) during the heyday of\u00a0Scooby-Doo, Where are You!<\/em>, a massive true-crime thriller series that itself spawned all manner of pretenders –\u00a0Jabberjaw, Speed Buggy, and Josie and the Pussycats<\/em>, to name but a few – Scooby’s previously ascendant star was already on a downward trajectory by the end of the sixth incarnation of his hit show,\u00a0The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries<\/em>. Longtime co-stars Frederick Herman Jones and Velma Dinkley had left the set, and Scooby’s own time in the spotlight had been usurped by his garrulous young nephew Scrappy. Desperate for a rating spike, Scooby turned to producers Joe Ruby and Tom Ruegger in the summer of 1984 with a desperate and wild bid: a gritty, paranormal re-imagining of the thriller series. Ruby and Ruegger recruited longtime friend Vincent Price and bad-boy child actor Flim-Flam to the cast and began filming in the Fall of ’84. Little did Scooby and the gang realize then that they would unleash one of the most terrifying demons ever to walk the earth, a malevolent phantom that lingers in our mortal plane to this day. At the end of the single season of\u00a0The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo<\/em>, all but one of the specters the gang hunted was caught. That remaining ghoul?\u00a0Ghostblood<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The premise of\u00a0The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo<\/em> was simple enough: the gang, now composed of Scooby, Scooby’s asexual life-partner Norville “Shaggy” Rogers, nephew Scrappy, the always plucky jet-setter Daphne Blake, and the volatile Flim-Flam, under the watchful guidance of “supreme warlock” Vincent “Van Ghoul” Price, would explore allegedly haunted crypts in search of genuine paranormal phenomena. The American viewing public, glutted on slasher films during the horror heyday of the 80s, demanded real thrills, and the child-friendly antics of\u00a0The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries<\/em> just wouldn’t cut it. It was that conceit that cast the new gang upon their maiden voyage to a specific rural community with a history of lycanthropy<\/a> on the outskirts of Prague. There, in a dank crypt in which the gang hid itself from the deranged townsfolk, Scooby and Shaggy discovered an ornate and foreboding chest: the\u00a0Chest of Demons<\/strong>, a forgotten relic forged during the height of necromantic activities in Prague during the Middle Ages. The unwitting duo, allegedly hearing bizarre and disconcerting commands in the catacombs (the pilot episode itself is loaded with all manner of EVP’s – electronic voice phenomena – that audio researchers have been unable to decipher), opened the chest. The 13 demons sealed by arcane rites within the chest were once again loosed upon the world.<\/p>\n