Casper's Haunted Christmas | |
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Directed by | Owen Hurley |
Produced by | Byron Vaughns |
Written by |
Ian Boothby Roger Fredericks |
Based on |
Casper the Friendly Ghost by Seymour Reit Joe Oriolo |
Starring |
Brendan Ryan Barrett Kathleen Barr Ian James Corlett Graeme Kingston Terry Klassen Scott McNeil Tegan Moss Colin Murdock Tabitha St. Germain Samuel Vincent |
Narrated by | David Kaye |
Music by | Robert Buckley |
Edited by | Andrew Duncan |
Production
company |
The Harvey Entertainment Company
Mainframe Entertainment |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures Home Video |
Release date
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October 31, 2000 |
Running time
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86 minutes |
Country | United States Canada |
Language | English |
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 Pictures Home Video on October 31, 2000. Unlike its direct-to-video predecessors, this video was completely computer animated. It stars Brendan Ryan Barrett as the voice of Casper. Randy Travis provided original music.
Kibosh, the King of Ghosts, decrees that Casper must scare someone before Christmas Day or he will be banished to The Dark for all eternity. To make sure this happens, he confiscates the Ghostly Trio's Scare licenses and flings them to 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.
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. Also, the worldwide ice cream store chain also inserted a coupon good for free ice cream sundaes inside every video.