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Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988)

★ 7.4 · 341 ratings on TMDB

The New Scooby-Doo Movie You'll Howl For!

Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf poster★ 7.4

Shaggy is turned into a werewolf, and it's up to Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy's girlfriend to help him win a race against other monsters, and become human again.

DirectorRay Patterson
CastB.J. Ward, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Ed Gilbert, Frank Welker
GenresAnimation, Comedy, Family, Mystery
The emergence reading

In Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “monster race”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, power, otherness.

↷ monsters and creaturesUSidentitypowerotherness
Also inFilms about othernessConsciousness hiding in monstersFilms about identityFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Also hides consciousness here

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Same subject, different mask

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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