Michael Jackson's Thriller

• Michael Jackson (Michael)
• Ola Ray ( Michael's friend)
• Vincent Price ( Offstimme in rap )
• Forrest J Ackerman (man in the cinema ), among others

The video for Michael Jackson's song Thriller is considered a milestone in the history of music videos. It was in the fall of 1983, filmed in Los Angeles ( California ) and produced by director John Landis. The clip is much longer than the eponymous album version. Landis has created the first time a music video, which can be described as an independent film.

Michael Jackson was the time of the video release of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Before the movie begins, therefore, the following message is to be read:

"Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress thatthis movie in no way a Endorses was in the occult. "

" Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult. "

Action

Michael looks up with his girlfriend a horror movie in the theater to where the main character (also played by Michael Jackson) is transformed at night in the dark forest into a werewolf and a young girl pursued. His girlfriend is afraid of too much and leave the theater. Michael follows her to a few seconds and tried to calm her down. On the way home from the cinema Michael begins to dance and sing his song Thriller. You go through the cemetery, where the dead come to life. The off-screen voice of Vincent Price can be heard now. After that, Michael also turned into a zombie and joins the other, which surround the girl. This takes refuge in an abandoned house near, and when the zombies follow her and enter the house, she starts screaming. Then she wakes up as if from a nightmare on the couch in the apartment of Michael, who in normal condition smiling bends over her and comforted her. He wants to bring them home, and while the two go to the door, Michael turns at the end once the camera around, his face is re- devilish, and the horrible laughter sounds that can be heard at the end of the song.

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• The first music video Thriller was included in the National Film Registry on 30 December 2009.
• Thriller at the time was 500,000 U.S. dollars ( 1.25 million DM), the most elaborate and expensive music video.
• In January 1984, Thriller in the Federal Republic in the music video show formula was one shown as a video of the week in full action length, but with no trailer, just because of the creepy content of the video, however, this edition of the show was broadcast from Child Protection Laws only after 22 clock.
• The music video with a look behind the scenes was released on video cassette under the name The Making Of Michael Jackson's Thriller and was until the beginning of 1986 sold approximately 750,000 times and is still the best-selling music video in the world.
• "See you next Wednesday. " ( "See you next Wednesday" ) says Vincent Price in the film, the look at Michael and his girlfriend. This is just before they go out of the cinema. Later the same sentence is written in blood on a wall to see. In addition, the set is a running gag in John Landis and is used in all of his films.
• Director John Landis sitting in the cinema, in the right foreground with the audience.
• The display above the cinema entrance is " Vincent Price thriller".
• In the movie Otto - Der Film (1985 ) the music video parodies: Otto proposes his lady before, to take a shortcut through the cemetery. Once there, he reveals to her that he " is different than the others" and turns into Heino. After yet another " zombie Heinos " rise from their graves, they interpret to the beat of its own version of Thriller Black Brown is the hazelnut.
• Occurrence and Dance of Blue Gorillas in the music video of the song " Clint Eastwood " by the band Gorillaz parodies the zombies in "Thriller".

In the music video several allusions are made to horror films in which John Landis and Vincent Price were involved:

• The theater where Michael and his girlfriend look at the horror film is the same as in the film The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977 ) in which John Landis directed. Even the original poster of Landis ' film Schlock - The Banana Monster (1973 ) hanging in the display cases.
• The sound of snarling werewolf during the transformation is the same sound as in the film An American Werewolf in London ( 1981). In this film, Landis led also directed and also wrote the screenplay.
• On the outer surface of the cinema a poster of the movie House Of Wax depends ( The House of Wax ) (1953 ), in which Vincent Price played the lead role.