10 Horror Movies With Scooby Doo Plots

Bearing an uncomfortable resemblance to Miner 49er, the Scooby villain who tried to scare people away from land where’d struck oil, Harry Warden is in a coma following a “mining accident” where he murdered 22 of his colleagues. When he wakes up, naturally his first thought is to get back in the mines, where The Kids are holding their annual Valentine’s Day bash.

He must’ve stopped off at a fancy dress store en route, because ol’ Harry turns up in full mining gear, complete with a pickaxe that, in his hands, becomes a ninja throwing star, capable of taking out an opponent hundreds of yards away. Having decimated the town’s teenaged population by roughly a third, his activities are curtailed by the Sheriff, but of course there’s a convenient cave-in, they never find a body etc, so a decade later another crazed miner shows up – or is it the same guy?

Of course it isn’t. The killer turns out to be Tom (Jensen Ackles), which is odd because they came face to face earlier in the movie, so the filmmakers go the Switchblade Romance route and say it was all in his mind. That’s another bad habit learned from Scooby – the plot that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.