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Best movie of this year hands down!

Absolutely Fantastic

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

"Thriller" is probably Michael Jackson's most famous music video, possibly the most famous video from any artist. Hard to believe, it's almost 30 years old already. It has his usual music video director John Landis on board again and as a nice addition horror movie legend Vincent Price narrating some verses.The song is not bad, although it is not my favorite from Jackson. And as I intend to solely evaluate the music video as a short film, I can't really come up with a positive judgment. It has lots of characters from horror films and the master himself even develops into a zombie and a werewolf. However, even if the make-up-work is impressive, this short film is neither really scary (I wonder if it was considered like that in the 80s) nor did it tell a particularly watch-worthy story. If you're interested in the history of music videos or the tragic life of Michael Jackson, it's worth the watch. Otherwise, you can do something better with these 15 minutes.

When it was announced the "King of Pop" was dead at age 50, a month before he was to start a series of live comeback shows at London's O2 Arena, it was a huge shock to millions of people around the world. He was, and will forever be one of the most talented voices and dancers in the music industry, and he will be missed terribly. I decided to remind myself how wonderful he was by watching what is considered by many to be not only Jackson's best video (and possibly song), but the greatest music video ever made, from director John Landis (An American Werewolf in London). The film opens with Michael and his Girl (Ola Ray) having their car breakdown, and after giving her a ring, the moon comes out and he turns into a werewolf. We then see Michael and his Girl watching this horror film in the cinema, she is scared and walks out, and Michael soon follows her, singing the iconic song. Soon enough the voice of Vincent Price comes on, and zombies start crawling out the earth and open coffins from the graveyard, and Michael and the Girl are obviously surrounded. She turns away, and Michael has become a zombie himself, and with all the other creatures they do the iconic dance, before he turns back into his normal self, at least for the chorus. The Girl runs into the near creepy house, blocks the doorway, but zombie Michael still manages to break through, and when he touches her she screams to see normal Michael say "what's the problem?" The film ends with him taking her home, and looking at us with evil eyes. Michael Jackson was number 14 on The 100 Greatest Pop Culture Icons, and he was number 6 on The Ultimate Pop Star, the Thriller album was number 4 on The 100 Greatest Albums, and this video was number 71 on The 100 Greatest Scary Moments, and it was number 1 on The 100 Greatest Pop Videos. Very good!

Before I had saw the Thriller video in 2001, my family and friends all tried to explain what happens in it. I put all the bits together and came up with this storyline. Tell me what you think.The camera comes down on Michael and his date coming out of the cinema and they start to walk to his house while singing Thriller. After finishing the verses they come to a graveyard and Michael suggests that they go in. While walking around Ola notices that she's been abandoned. She goes off looking for Michael. She see's his footprints heading into a nearby forest so she follows them. She hears him groaning and finds him in a clear patch in the grass. She asks him if he's alright and He turns around with the yellow eyes and warns her to get away from him. After a full transformation into a werewolf he chases her back into the graveyard and zombies have started to rise from their grave. After being cornered by Michael and the zombies they start to dance and sing the chorus to Thriller. After that she runs into Michael's house to seek shelter but Were-Panther Michael and the zombies follow her in. She goes in and stabs Michael with a silver knife and he turns to normal. as the sun comes back out the zombies turn to go back to their grave. Then Ola wakes up and realises that it's still night-time and that they've arrived home from the cinema. Then Michael says she can stay at his place for the night and goes to shut the curtains and as he does he stops. The camera shows a full moon and cuts to Michael's face at the window with the yellow eyes and the teeth and the camera gradually zooms closer to the window Obviously not what happens but might have been good to see. I know I was more scared of my family's version of the tale. but the one thing that haunts me every day and night is those yellow cats eyes both at the beginning and the end.

The stars and the planets must've all been in just the proper alignment, the day that THRILLER was conceived. Michael Jackson's album was slaying the charts, John Landis still had a lot of good will built up from his genre pic "An American Werewolf In London", (not to mention his classic comedies ANIMAL HOUSE and THE BLUES BROTHERS) and choreographer Michael Peters was creating some of the most innovative and influential pieces for music videos of that period.Not before or since has one single piece of film illuminated, exploited or underscored MJ's incredible talent or the more "otherworldly" aspects of his persona quite like THRILLER, the world's most successful (if not officially the first) long-form video, and the most fondly remembered. Also the most expensive at the time, but every penny and every bit of the talent behind its creation and execution is up there on the screen. And how would it not be complete without the "rap" from the original song, provided by the late, great Vincent Price, to add even more cache to the chills already there? The glory days of one of the world's greatest performers have long since passed, but no one can ever take away the man's towering achievements, of which this is probably the most memorable. If you don't think so, now, remember: Halloween is coming. I won't be one bit surprised when, like other Halloweens before it going back decades, this appears on some Saturday Night Creature Feature special.As it will next year, and the year after that...