This is the first Scooby-Doo movie to feature Casey Kasem, Heather North, Nicole Jaffe and Frank Welker together since 1973, and the first movie to feature Heather North since 1997.
The make-up of the vampire rock stars are obvious nods to Alice Cooper, David Bowie and KISS. KISS would later be featured as characters in A Scooby Doo Halloween (2003) and Scooby-Doo! y Kiss: El misterio del Rock and Roll (2015), although only Paul Stanley provided his authentic voice to those cartoons.
In a tribute to the original ¡Scooby Doo, dónde estás! (1969), this movie features a recreation of the 1971 zooming Hanna-Barbara logo (also known as "The Box") after the ending credits, but without the music.
Although the movie was released in 2003, it has a copyright year of 2002. This suggests the movie was produced and completed in 2002, but it was held over to spring 2003 due to the release of the live-action Scooby-Doo (2002) on home video.