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Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare

Mystery Inc. faces camp legends come to life.

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Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare, a direct-to-video comedy horror-mystery, hit shelves on September 14, 2010. It is the fifteenth such film based on the classic cartoon, arriving seven months after Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo. In its debut week, it moved 53,389 units, and by January 2013, total sales reached roughly 194,000 copies.

Plot

Mystery Inc. heads to Camp Little Moose, where Fred once spent summers as a camper, to work as counselors. When they get there, head counselor Burt and forest ranger John Knudsen tell them that a local legend called the Woodsman has apparently come to life and frightened all the other campers away.

Knudsen suggests shutting the camp down, but three kids named Luke, Trudy, and Deacon show up. Fred talks Burt into keeping things open while the gang looks into the Woodsman. That night, the Woodsman attacks and tells everyone to leave.

The next day, the campers go to Big Moose Lake, where the rival Camp Big Moose is located. There, another legend called the Fish Man attacks them. In the chaos, Scooby-Doo spots a building at the bottom of the lake. Soon after, Jessica, the head counselor of Camp Big Moose, accuses Mystery Inc. of stealing her camp's RV and sonar equipment.

Velma uses the RV's tracking device to find it in Shadow Canyon. The group splits: Fred, Jessica, Luke, and Daphne check out the underwater building, while Velma leads the rest to Shadow Canyon. Fred's team finds a whole town on the lake bed, plus dynamite hidden in a cavern. Velma's team locates the missing RV and equipment, which was being used to scan the lake, but they get chased off by yet another legend come to life: the Spectre.

Back at Camp Little Moose, a frightened Deacon leaves with Jessica for Camp Big Moose. Mystery Inc. visits a local shop owner to ask about the underwater town. They learn it was once a mining town called Moose Creek, evacuated to make room for Big Moose Lake and a dam. The treasure of a gangster named Ricky LaRue is supposedly buried there.

Before he died, LaRue told his cellmate, "Babyface Boretti," that the treasure could be found when the sun hits the town steeple on the Summer Solstice. When the gang returns, they find the Woodsman has wrecked Camp Little Moose, though Burt, Luke, and Trudy are safe. They realize the Woodsman is trying to destroy the dam. They evacuate everyone just before a flash flood destroys the campgrounds.

Heading to the now-exposed Moose Creek, Mystery Inc. runs into Jessica, who says she was following Deacon. The Woodsman attacks and splits up Fred, Jessica, and Luke. Meanwhile, Deacon captures the others and reveals himself to be Boretti.

Fred's group defeats the Woodsman, but he vanishes and is replaced by the Fish Man. Scooby knocks the Fish Man into the Mystery Machine. The gang unmasks it, revealing Knudsen.

They capture Boretti before he can escape with the treasure. Velma figures out that the two teamed up: Boretti stole Camp Big Moose's equipment to find Moose Creek, while Knudsen dressed up as all three monsters to scare people away. When Mystery Inc. showed up unexpectedly, Boretti disguised himself as a camper to try to get them to leave.

Boretti and Knudsen are arrested. Burt and Jessica merge their camps into Camp Little Big Moose, and Mystery Inc. finishes their summer as counselors. In a post-credits scene, the Spectre turns out to be real.

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