teddyskill
Best music video of all time an great practical effects
R.I.P Michael
WakenPayne
I'm not a Michael Jackson fan. I'll clear that up now, There's nothing wrong with his music and his dance moves were very good. I did think this song was okay so I'll give it credit but I will say there was a synth solo while Michael and the other zombies dance that to me just went on a bit too long. The plot is that Michael and Janet Jackson fall into the usual horror movie trope of they're in the middle of nowhere and the car's out of gas. As they're walking and talking soon Michael turns into a werecat, only to be watched in a theater by Michael and Janet Jackson. Janet leaves and Michael follows but on the way home they're intercepted by zombies, made by the awesomeness of Vincent Price monologues. They dance with Michael and Janet runs away to an abandoned house and the zombies break in like they're in Escape From New York only to find out that didn't really happen at all. This is iconic and it does start out pretty good with the verses and the Vincent Price monologue. I'll say it might go on a bit too long. It takes about 5 minutes for the video to start and even then there's more dialogue before it starts and also with the ending. I mean yes, I like the cinematography and even stuff like the set design of the graveyard is appropriately B-Movie-ish. There is a lot that this music video does right. In my personal opinion the only thing really wrong with it is that it's a little bit longer than I would've liked.
Tom May
This is a music-video turned short-film, very well directed by John Landi - using some of the same trickery and style adopted for his 1981 comedy-horror classic, "An American Werewolf in London".Beautifully shot by Robert Paynter, a veteran British cinematographer who learnt his trade photographing British Transport Films back in the 1950s; he captures some vividly dark blues, purples and reds throughout.There are film-within-a-film games going on here, plus a surprisingly overt story about burgeoning sexuality, with Jackson's girl clearly more frightened of what is potentially to come in the bedroom than what she is seeing on the cinema screen. Then the actual music part, with the werewolf Jackson leading her astray, backed up by a gang of "Dawn of the Dead" style zombies and ghouls. Vincent Price's voice-over makes a lot more sense in the context of this film than in the song as it appears on "Thriller". The film's final shot is rightly famous, and I can well imagine it scaring quite a few children. Interesting to ponder whether Jackson was entirely conscious of the sexual subtext, or not.Overall, a fine little piece of film-making to support a phenomenally successful album, which turned Jackson into a 'mega-star'. Here, he seems very much in touch with his music and with his horror lore.
Cocacolaguy912-2
"Thriller" is brilliant. It is a long video, but simply brilliant nonetheless. The song itself is...excellent...add Michael JAckson dancing and you have a golden Phenomenon. Out of all the videos I have ever seen, this is the best. If you have not seen the video yet, then I urge you...The special effects are amazing for it's time... everything from the wearwolf transformation to the idea of these creepy zombies slowly raising from their graves is grand...spookishly grand that is. Vicent Price has his segment of bone-shivering lines...known simply as "the rap" Ola Ray does good as Michael's girl, and Michael JAckson himself...the dancing, and singing (although not during the video itself) is unmatched...10/10.
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