Casper's Haunted Christmas

Casper's Haunted Christmas is a 2000 direct-to-video film produced by Harvey Comics and Mainframe Entertainment, based on the character Casper the Friendly Ghost, and was released by Universal Studios Home Video on October 31, 2000 (Halloween).[1] Unlike either its theatrical or two direct-to-video predecessors, which combined live action and computer animation, this film was completely done using computer animation. It stars Brendon Ryan Barrett (who previously acted different character in Casper: A Spirited Beginning) as the voice of Casper. Randy Travis provided original music.

Casper's Haunted Christmas
Directed byOwen Hurley
Produced byByron Vaughns
Written byIan Boothby
Roger Fredericks
Based onCasper the Friendly Ghost
by Seymour Reit
Joe Oriolo
StarringBrendan Ryan Barrett
Kathleen Barr
Ian James Corlett
Graeme Kingston
Terry Klassen
Scott McNeil
Tegan Moss
Colin Murdock
Tabitha St. Germain
Lee Tockar
Samuel Vincent
Narrated byDavid Kaye (rhyming scene only)
Music byRobert Buckley
Edited byAndrew Duncan
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Studios Home Video
Release date
  • October 31, 2000 (2000-10-31)
(Halloween)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited States
Canada
LanguageEnglish

Five years after its video release, the special aired on Cartoon Network on December 1, 2005.[2]

Plot

Kibosh, the perfidious King of Ghosts, decrees that Casper must scare someone before Christmas Day or he will be banished to The Dark, together with his uncles for all eternity. To make sure this happens, he confiscates the Ghostly Trio's Scare licenses and flings them to the Christmas-influenced town Kriss, Massachusetts where they meet the Jollimore Family. When Casper's good behavior starts to act up, which includes befriending the daughter of the family, Holly, the Ghostly Trio call in Casper's lookalike cousin Spooky and his girlfriend Poil to do the job.

Cast

Crew
  • Ian Boothby - Co-writer
  • Roger Fredericks - Co-writer
  • Kris Zimmerman - Voice Director
  • Byron Vaughns - Producer
  • Owen Hurley - Director

Marketing

Baskin Robbins made a tie-in promotion with the VHS release of Casper's Haunted Christmas, by inventing a Casper-themed ice cream flavor that was available throughout December. The worldwide ice cream store chain also inserted a coupon good for free ice cream sundaes inside every video.

See also

References
  1. Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 42. ISBN 9781476672939.
  2. Lenburg, Jeff (2009). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (3rd ed.). New York: Checkmark Books. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-8160-6600-1.


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