Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular

Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular
Directed by	Ezekiel Norton
Written by	Heath Corson Jill Thompson
Based on	Scary Godmother by Jill Thompson
Produced by	Kevin Gamble Sharan Wood
Starring	Garry Chalk Noel Callahan Alex Doduk Brittney Irvine Britt McKillip Danny McKinnon Scott McNeil Adam Pospisil Tabitha St. Germain
Edited by	Anne Hoerber Patrick Carroll William Lau Craig Mcewen
Music by	Robert Buckley
Production company	Mainframe
Release date	July 18, 2003 (2003-07-18) (SDCC)
Running time	48 minutes[1]
Country	Canada

Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular is a 2003 Canadian animated Halloween comedy film based on the Scary Godmother series of books by Jill Thompson, specifically a community theater stage production of the first book. The special depicts Hannah, while trick-or-treating with her cousin Jimmy and his friends, encountering the titular witch and her many friends for a Halloween party at the Fright Side. It stars Canadian voice actors Tabitha St. Germain, Britt McKillip, Garry Chalk, Noel Callahan, Alex Doduk, Brittney Irvine, Danny McKinnon, Scott McNeil and Adam Pospisil. It was directed by Zeke Norton (credited as Ezekiel Norton) and produced by Kevin Gamble and Sharan Wood with heavy involvement by Thompson.

Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular was produced by Vancouver-based animation company Mainframe Entertainment, notable for other computer-animated television series such as ReBoot (1994–2001), and was the company's first production to use a Softimage XSI pipeline as previously they used Softimage 3D; its animation consists of 3D characters and backgrounds that appear 2D (although most of them were actually modeled in 3D and cartoon-edged to appear like 2D watercolored backgrounds a la the source material). The special was meant to launch an episodic Scary Godmother series, but the only other Scary Godmother media that has been released is the studio's sequel to the special, Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy (2005); as of October 2020, a series is still in the works according to Norton and Thompson.

Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular premiered at San Diego Comic-Con on July 18, 2003 before it was released to region 1 DVD on September 3. It aired during that year's Halloween season in most territories except the United States, where it premiered on television the following year on Cartoon Network on October 1, 2004. The special was a ratings hit on its U.S. television premiere, well received by critics, and won Leo Awards for the program itself as well as its score and direction. It, along with The Revenge of Jimmy, continued to re-air every Halloween season on Cartoon Network in later years.