There’s nothing particularly spectacular about the films narrative, the mystery is down to Earth and there’s no supernatural power, as many of the other DVD titles have gone for. What do I mean by efficient and well balanced? Well, I use these words arbitrarily, to emphasise that this film feels like an extraordinary episode of Scooby-Doo. It’s actually quite nice to be finally writing about this film, as it’s got to be up there as one of the most efficient and well balanced Scooby-Doo titles I’ve seen. gang to track the Phantom down and find out who the masked figure really is. The Phantom reeks havoc, and scares away the contestants one by one.
As the story unfolds and the ‘haunting’ gets more and more violent, the Phantom’s multiple aims and targets confuse the gang, on account that they each appear to be conflicting. Rather than being a tale about a disfigured incel haunting an opera, we have a ghostly phantom haunting a reality show. Stage Fright, takes place during the lead up to the grand finale of ‘Talent Star’ a hit American talent show, and would you believe it Fred and Daphne are going to performing, broadcast live from Chicago! The film is Scooby-Doo’s take on Phantom of the Opera. First up is 2013’s Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright, directed by Victor Cook. Not wanting these DVD’s to go to waste, I’m going to share a series of short reviews for each film. Whilst I’ve been sorting through a number of old boxes, I found that I still had some of the Scooby-Doo DVD’s I bought during this research, but never explored in the thesis itself (on account that they didn’t fit the central study of international relations). If your familiar with my work, you’ll know that I wrote a dissertation on Scooby-Doo’s straight to DVD films (which centred around international travel). Written by Daniel – I’ve written a number of blog posts on Scooby-Doo now.
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