Vincent Price was on Joan Rivers talk show and did his speaking part. Just as bone chilling with him in a well lit studio. He chose to get paid 2😮0,000 for his part instead of royalties.
Definitely 👍 Johnny Depp got him as his father in Edward scissors hands quite spooky.. He died in movie as character and that was his last movie I believe..
Vincent Price that speaks the spooky sounding rhyme was in retirement. Everybody was BLOWN away that Micheal got him to work on this project. Price was extremely famous in his own right for his roles in horror films.
Fun fact: The United States Library of Congress has inducted Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” into the National Film Registry, making it the FIRST music video ever to be added to the archives and only one of a few hundred films that have had the honor of being a part of the Registry! 🐐
Transformation is detailed because it's directed by John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) with special effects makeup by Rick Baker (same movie - and has a cameo as the zombie emerging from the crypt in this video).
Michel Jackson loved horror movies! This was cutting edge special effects at the time and I mean the best special effects had to offer!! He always went above and beyond in his music videos!
He was raised a Jehovah's Witness. That's why that was in the beginning. A lot of people back then whenever you dealt with these topics they'd say you were a devil worshipper or whatever.
This video was released on December 2, 1983, I was 11 days from turning 5, I was born in Santiago Chile & we lived under a violent military dictatorship since 1973 and very strictly catholic & most of the population were poor, middle poor, very, poor, extremely poor, lived in shanty town slums poor, or simply had nothing poor. However we were still “privileged” to enjoy American pop culture, like Coca Cola, Pepsi, He-man and many other classic cartoons & of course music including Michael Jackson. Long story short, my mother got me a red “Michael Jackson” jacket since I just loved this song and learned all the sweet moves and used to put on that red jacket and dance for her & others. 😂 She passed away last year in cancer. This was a nice reminder of a great child memories from the few that I have.
MJ got some massive talent for this video... John Landis to direct, Vincent Price for that wonderfully scary monologue while the zombies were coming up... what a collaboration that still stands the test of time.
Fair to say that this was "THE Video" in all of MTV. MJ was at the peak of his career, MTV was in one of its highest points as well. There were watch parties all over the world and it absolutely lived up to the hype.
Michael conceived the idea for the video after seeing John Landis and Rick Baker's work on 'An American Werewolf in London'. He reached out to both men for the video after seeing the film. And both agreed.
Aww, I can see the stress and discomfort when you watch this production, and the relief when he’s back to normal,lol. Probably a good thing that your mom kept you away from the scary things that go bump in the night. Never forget when this album came out, it was the hottest music out there. Thanks for the memories, and perfect for playing on Halloween 🎃👻 Thanks B.P.
Vincent Price. GOAT! HORROR! This was and always will be EPIC. I had a friend who worked at Kmart, when this came out. Every night at close, the whole crew would THRILLER DANCE through the main aisles. It was AMAZING!
I was only 12yrs old when this came out.i remember having to go to the video shop with my sister to rent it as there was a waiting list to rent it.blew my mind loved it!!❤
This was more of a Short Film than a music video. At the time, the special effects were top notch...there wasn't much CGI back then. You have to remember that MTV was in its infancy and a lot of performers weren't making videos aside from concert live performance videos. "Thriller" set a really high bar for music videos, even if you consider a shorter version that is mostly just the song part.
This came out when I was in college and word got around when it was going to be played on MTV. We all managed to find somewhere to watch it, and it was an EVENT. To say this helped drive the Thriller album to the stratospheric sales heights it achieved is obvious, but that album dominated the radio when it came out....
I can actually remember watching premier of this on TV as a child and the Making of it.. Like it was yesterday never forget the excitement and amazement it give me.. Was a really big thing in them days and it started changing people's musical videos from the on.. Enjoyed watching thanks for bringing back good memories ❤️😁👍
My favorite part of the song has always been Vincent Price 'rapping'! Mr. Price was the absolute OG of classic horror movies and getting him out of retirement to record it was amazing!! RIP to both Vincent Price and Michael Jackson.
I was 8 years old when this premiered on MTV. I was allowed to stay up and watch the video and then the making of Thriller. I recorded it on my VCR. It was the best memory of me and my family all watching this.
I got to see MJ (the his brothers) perform in LA, and he was starting to promote the Thriller album. My friend and I complained to the usher that the young girls in our section wouldn't stay in their seats and kept standing in front of us along the railing of our balcony section, completely blocking our view. Finally the usher said "follow me" and took us to our new seats - front row side stage!! At one point MJ came to where we were and stuck out his hand where I was able to touch it (the gloved one - lol).
Michael Jackson was a fan of classic horror movies, as I was growing up, dating back to the original horror classics of the 1930's. He liked the 1981 movie American Werewolf of London. So Michael asked the director John Landis to direct this movie short of Thriller.
Typically, in the 1980s, if you were going with someone you would wear their letterman’s jacket and their class ring on your index finger made smaller by wrapping thread around it. In the southern states most high school boys were dipping skull and they had the Skoal can outline in the right pocket of their Levi’s. That was the drill. This usually started in middle school at least as far as dipping skull and that’s a tobacco product. It’s a wonder many more kids that grew up in the 80s didn’t have mouth cancer.
Once upon a long time ago, when you had to go to the video store to rent VHS tapes and the VCR machine, I would beg my dad to rent this tape, even cry if I had to. 😂 thanks for bringing me back to my youth
Crazy in just minutes they wrote such a iconic part for price. It was all too perfect. Which is Why Thriller is still the biggest selling album of all time. An staying at number one an winning most grammys in one night
I remember the hype before this video was released. Everyone I know watched the premiere. The look on your face when the zombies started surfacing is hilarious!🤣 In a weird coincidence, Vincent Price was on an episode of The Love Boat that aired today.
Before this video was released Thriller played nearly 24/7 on the radio. MTV had a countdown to Thriller. There weren't music videos like this. Grew up with MJ. He'd be my age now.😢
Michael was a huge film fan, so he put a lot into his music videos. You already know that the artist has to pay for the cost of the music video, and Michael broke records for the most expensive music videos ever. John Landis is also a huge director, hes also worked with Spielberg, you should maybe watch the video for Liberian Girl, from the Bad album to see the kind of connections he had in the 80s and 90s. Also, do you remember Moonwalker?
The voice is Vincent Price, one of the kindest and generous gentleman on earth but was well known as an actor in many, many classic horror movies, mostly black and white movies such as the original "The Fly", its sequel, "The House on Haunted Hill", "The Pendulum", "The Tingler" just to name a few. Michael Jackson did a great job getting Vincent Price to narrate. Perfect. Vincent was 70 or 71 when he did this video, no longer as active in films. I thought it was a great nod to him for a lifetime of work in the horror genre. The ring Michael gave the girl was his class ring, many people did this back in the day when the couple was going "steady". I am much older than you but still remember when the video was first released on MTV. I was in college and we had a party the night it was to be released just to watch it. The thriller album was very hot and this video was very much anxiously awaited for.
My friends and I crossed the river to go to the Late Show club in Niagara Falls, NY just to see the premiere showing of Thriller. MTV was not available in Canada at the time. We were not Michael Jackson fans, but there was so much hype about this video we felt we just had to see it. It was well worth the trip as not only the video was great, but the music was as well. Gained a lot of respect for Michael Jackson that night.
MJ was my man when I was a little girl. I was convinced I was gonna grow up and marry him! I thought he was gonna stay the age he was during his Bad era, and I would catch up to him and marry him (that’s 6 year old me child logic for you!) but any time he was on tv I would dance along with him and this was one of my favourite dances to do. Also I watched the making of Thriller when I was a kid too and I fell in love with special effects. I wanted to do it so badly growing up. I would’ve given anything to turn someone into some type of monster and it look convincing. But the making of all of this is incredible. What they did to “pump” his face during his transformation into the wolf, and how painstakingly long it is to apply this type of makeup is just mind blowing
MJ was quite the showman. His dance moves challenged a generation to try and copy him . And yes, back then you gave your girl your class ring to "go steady".
In 1997 he released a short film called Ghosts. It’s 39 minutes long but you’d love it. He does more acting & plays multiple characters in it. Would love to see that reaction
John Landis hit an Easter egg for those who'd seen American Werewolf with the "See you next Wednesday" line. And the posters on the cinema were from the Vincent Price movie "House of wax".
I play this video every year to pay homage to this great piece of art. He made great musi and you can't deny that. This is the best choreo eva! To my knowledge nobody's ever replicated it or trying to change it. Yeah a lot of people tried to do it.
This was scarier to me as a child than any Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers movie was!!! This absolutely terrified me and I couldn’t put my feet on the floor in a dark room for a year after watching this
I remember hiding behind my mom trying to watch this video when it came out on MTV. I wanted to be cool like my older cousins and watch it but it terrified me! You have to watch the documentary, "The Making of Thriller (1983)". I loved renting that video and "Michael Jackson The Legend Continues (1988)". Both great behind the scenes documentaries. 😊
It's crazy, when this music video came out on VHS tape, I wanted it but didn't have a VCR yet. A local dept. store was selling the videocassettes and played it back to back to promote sales. I don't know how many times I stood watching it in that dept. store, fascinated with MJs dancing, the choreography and just the whole production of it. And it's still fascinating to me all these years later. A classic video in every sense of the word.
This video was so huge when it came out that my 5th grade class and the class across the hall got together in one classroom and watched this on VHS on a tiny 18” TV. 60 5th graders glued to the TV! Nuts!
From the first time I heard this song I thought MJ was brilliant to have the great Vincent Price do the speaking part. Listening to the master of "thriller" horror films with his incredibly creepy voice and then his evil laugh at the end was amazing! I also loved that the movie marquee when they walked out of the theater had Vincent Price - Thriller written on it. Vincent Price starred in movies when horror films could "thrill" you more with their writing and delivery of dialogue than the excessive blood and gore of some later films.
The most expensive music video of all time. I skipped school when I was in tenth grade to see the premiere showing of Thriller on MTV. One of the most fun times I had was dancing to Thriller played with the choreographed fountains at the Dubai Mall, in the UAE, the largest mall in the world. It was so cool! I couldn’t stand still. I had to dance and sing. Ha! Good memories.
Yes he put up the disclaimer cause fans believed this meant he was down with the witchcraft going on. He made them put that up. He was very upset about it.
I remember watching this when I was a kid (9-10) and I loved it. That first time I seen it I got to see the making of thriller and THEN they played the music video on VH1. Ghosts is the second one I loved despite it being 39 minutes long.
I remember the Halloween this video came out, everyone waited with such anticipation and MJ didn't and never does disappoint. It was bigger than huge. I love the backstory, MJ saw An American Werewolf in London and contacted John Landis, he wanted to change into a werewolf and created this around his desire to transition into a wolf. Vincent Price is a legendary horror voice. he's an old time star. John Landis created one of the most realistic transitions from man into a werewolf for the time.
Greg Rolle was the vocalist on this version. This song was a cover and originally written and performed by the original members of Fleetwood Mac. Greg Rolle went in to be a founding member of Journey with Neil Schonn who was also a guitarist on this song.
British born Rod Temperton was also keyboard and vocalist for the 70's Disco/soul band Heatwave (Boogie Nights, Always And Forever), he also wrote songs for George Benson and wrote the soundtrack to the film Running Scared starrring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines, the main theme to the film was sung by Michael McDonald (Sweet Freedom) 🇬🇧
This song and video is more than forty years old. I was about 20 years old then and hoped to see this video on MTV or my national television. Of course I bought the album as soon as it was released in The Netherlands, where I live.
The dancers were so in-sync that you can draw a straight line under their feet when they jump. Seeing this on TV when I was a kid made me want to watch horror movies. I was obsessed with the images of the zombies coming out of the ground and the creepy blue smoke all around. I’ve never seen any zombie movie that ever did it any better.
Je suis une fan absolue de Michael Jackson le plus grand artiste complet interplanétaire showman bête de scène génie talentueux brilliant unique legende merci beaucoup à vous BP 👍👏🙏💖
Vincent Price was the greatest master of horror movies and getting him do this voice-over work was such a score! It makes the whole video for me.
Especially with his iconic evil laugh at the end! He made it for me, too!
Love this video cause of Vincent Price he was the greatest gives you a chill😮
I'm very good friend with his grandsons.❤
Vincent Price was on Joan Rivers talk show and did his speaking part. Just as bone chilling with him in a well lit studio. He chose to get paid 2😮0,000 for his part instead of royalties.
Definitely 👍 Johnny Depp got him as his father in Edward scissors hands quite spooky.. He died in movie as character and that was his last movie I believe..
Vincent Price that speaks the spooky sounding rhyme was in retirement. Everybody was BLOWN away that Micheal got him to work on this project. Price was extremely famous in his own right for his roles in horror films.
MJ didn’t pay Vincent.
@@NancyMoran-r3b He was paid 20,00 dollars. He was offered royalties but refused.
@@GaylaMoogyep
so very epic!!
Fun fact: The United States Library of Congress has inducted Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” into the National Film Registry, making it the FIRST music video ever to be added to the archives and only one of a few hundred films that have had the honor of being a part of the Registry! 🐐
Transformation is detailed because it's directed by John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) with special effects makeup by Rick Baker (same movie - and has a cameo as the zombie emerging from the crypt in this video).
Yes Sir! If you were “going steady” you wore his class ring.
Yes, it was called a promise ring lol 😂
@@rumi2722 a promise ring was a pre engagement ring not a class ring.
oh yes!!!
Michel Jackson loved horror movies! This was cutting edge special effects at the time and I mean the best special effects had to offer!! He always went above and beyond in his music videos!
Yep and still one of the most awarded, costly, and prestigious music videos EVER made.
That man could dance! Like no other 🎉🎉
And Sing!
Vincent Price is the commentator. He was one of the best when it came to horror movies.
Forever classic.
Back in the days when music videos were king and could influence sales massively.
Vincent Price's narrative is wonderful!
And let's remember Monster Mash
This was a HUGE deal when it came out......there is a making of Thriller mini movie also. I was a senior in high school, I remember it so well.
He was raised a Jehovah's Witness. That's why that was in the beginning. A lot of people back then whenever you dealt with these topics they'd say you were a devil worshipper or whatever.
I couldn't remember if it was Jehovah's Witness or Southern Pentecostal Holiness Church
The Jackson 5 & Michael have changed dancing over & over again. ❤
This video was released on December 2, 1983, I was 11 days from turning 5, I was born in Santiago Chile & we lived under a violent military dictatorship since 1973 and very strictly catholic & most of the population were poor, middle poor, very, poor, extremely poor, lived in shanty town slums poor, or simply had nothing poor. However we were still “privileged” to enjoy American pop culture, like Coca Cola, Pepsi, He-man and many other classic cartoons & of course music including Michael Jackson. Long story short, my mother got me a red “Michael Jackson” jacket since I just loved this song and learned all the sweet moves and used to put on that red jacket and dance for her & others. 😂 She passed away last year in cancer. This was a nice reminder of a great child memories from the few that I have.
You totally missed Vincent Price, the voice doing the "rap" in the graveyard. The GOAT of the horror industry!!!
MJ got some massive talent for this video... John Landis to direct, Vincent Price for that wonderfully scary monologue while the zombies were coming up... what a collaboration that still stands the test of time.
and Rick Baker's effects.. legend!
Oh yes!!!!
Fair to say that this was "THE Video" in all of MTV. MJ was at the peak of his career, MTV was in one of its highest points as well. There were watch parties all over the world and it absolutely lived up to the hype.
I remember ❤
Yup first the moon walk live and then this 😅
I'd bet this dance has been danced a billion times as well
The best musical video in the history.
This was, simultaneously, broadcast, nationally, on network video shows and MTV. This was an, historical, television event.
Michael conceived the idea for the video after seeing John Landis and Rick Baker's work on 'An American Werewolf in London'. He reached out to both men for the video after seeing the film. And both agreed.
Aww, I can see the stress and discomfort when you watch this production, and the relief when he’s back to normal,lol. Probably a good thing that your mom kept you away from the scary things that go bump in the night. Never forget when this album came out, it was the hottest music out there. Thanks for the memories, and perfect for playing on Halloween 🎃👻 Thanks B.P.
Vincent Price. GOAT! HORROR!
This was and always will be EPIC.
I had a friend who worked at Kmart, when this came out. Every night at close, the whole crew would THRILLER DANCE through the main aisles. It was AMAZING!
This video truley is a Master-piece..R.I.P. Michael Jackson..,the true King of Pop..
Thanks it's been years since I've seen this Classic🐺
I was only 12yrs old when this came out.i remember having to go to the video shop with my sister to rent it as there was a waiting list to rent it.blew my mind loved it!!❤
This was more of a Short Film than a music video. At the time, the special effects were top notch...there wasn't much CGI back then. You have to remember that MTV was in its infancy and a lot of performers weren't making videos aside from concert live performance videos. "Thriller" set a really high bar for music videos, even if you consider a shorter version that is mostly just the song part.
This short film was so expensive that they decided to release The making of…..and it was a bestselling video……
The band on this album is actually the band TOTO, which has an impressive catalog of their own. First band I ever saw in concert, 1978.
Some of the members of Toto on some of the songs. But not the whole band and not on every song
Everybody remembers the dance, but the whole video is a movie!
One dance scene that changed history, both in video and live performances. Micheal was many things, but he was also a creative genius
This came out when I was in college and word got around when it was going to be played on MTV. We all managed to find somewhere to watch it, and it was an EVENT. To say this helped drive the Thriller album to the stratospheric sales heights it achieved is obvious, but that album dominated the radio when it came out....
I can actually remember watching premier of this on TV as a child and the Making of it.. Like it was yesterday never forget the excitement and amazement it give me.. Was a really big thing in them days and it started changing people's musical videos from the on.. Enjoyed watching thanks for bringing back good memories ❤️😁👍
My favorite part of the song has always been Vincent Price 'rapping'! Mr. Price was the absolute OG of classic horror movies and getting him out of retirement to record it was amazing!! RIP to both Vincent Price and Michael Jackson.
I was 8 years old when this premiered on MTV. I was allowed to stay up and watch the video and then the making of Thriller. I recorded it on my VCR. It was the best memory of me and my family all watching this.
MJ is the GOAT!! Great reaction!
I'm all about Halloween all the time. It's just fun. :)
I got to see MJ (the his brothers) perform in LA, and he was starting to promote the Thriller album. My friend and I complained to the usher that the young girls in our section wouldn't stay in their seats and kept standing in front of us along the railing of our balcony section, completely blocking our view. Finally the usher said "follow me" and took us to our new seats - front row side stage!! At one point MJ came to where we were and stuck out his hand where I was able to touch it (the gloved one - lol).
Michael Jackson was a fan of classic horror movies, as I was growing up, dating back to the original horror classics of the 1930's.
He liked the 1981 movie American Werewolf of London. So Michael asked the director John Landis to direct this movie short of Thriller.
Typically, in the 1980s, if you were going with someone you would wear their letterman’s jacket and their class ring on your index finger made smaller by wrapping thread around it. In the southern states most high school boys were dipping skull and they had the Skoal can outline in the right pocket of their Levi’s. That was the drill. This usually started in middle school at least as far as dipping skull and that’s a tobacco product. It’s a wonder many more kids that grew up in the 80s didn’t have mouth cancer.
Once upon a long time ago, when you had to go to the video store to rent VHS tapes and the VCR machine, I would beg my dad to rent this tape, even cry if I had to. 😂 thanks for bringing me back to my youth
This video took inspiration from "An American Werewolf in London"
Same makeup artist if I remember correctly.
@@xxlordbelxx1368 Did John Landis direct both?
@@hollycook5046 Yes he did
Same director
I love the video and especially Price's part. They wrote his part in the limousine on the way to rehearsal.
Crazy in just minutes they wrote such a iconic part for price. It was all too perfect. Which is
Why Thriller is still the biggest selling album of all time. An staying at number one an winning most grammys in one night
I remember the hype before this video was released. Everyone I know watched the premiere. The look on your face when the zombies started surfacing is hilarious!🤣 In a weird coincidence, Vincent Price was on an episode of The Love Boat that aired today.
Before this video was released Thriller played nearly 24/7 on the radio. MTV had a countdown to Thriller. There weren't music videos like this. Grew up with MJ. He'd be my age now.😢
Yes, the countdown stayed in the corner of MTV. I remember watching it countdown forever!
I remember staying up to watch the UK premier of this video on Channel 4, it was shown around 1am.
@@happyheretic01 same. We popped popcorn and made caramel apples
Michael was a huge film fan, so he put a lot into his music videos. You already know that the artist has to pay for the cost of the music video, and Michael broke records for the most expensive music videos ever. John Landis is also a huge director, hes also worked with Spielberg, you should maybe watch the video for Liberian Girl, from the Bad album to see the kind of connections he had in the 80s and 90s. Also, do you remember Moonwalker?
John Landis also directed Coming to America, the Blues Brothers, Trading Places and many other hits.
The beauty of Micheal's music videos is that they're mini movies. Love it!!
Sheer genius in every way. Vincent Price's voice was instantly recognizable by generations of horror movie watchers.
I was in high school when this premiered. We all made sure to be home, channel set to MTV and ‘patiently’ waited. 😊
John Landis and Vincent Price working with Michael Jackson. That was immensely huge. And still is.
That was the great Vincent Price orating!
The voice is Vincent Price, one of the kindest and generous gentleman on earth but was well known as an actor in many, many classic horror movies, mostly black and white movies such as the original "The Fly", its sequel, "The House on Haunted Hill", "The Pendulum", "The Tingler" just to name a few. Michael Jackson did a great job getting Vincent Price to narrate. Perfect. Vincent was 70 or 71 when he did this video, no longer as active in films. I thought it was a great nod to him for a lifetime of work in the horror genre. The ring Michael gave the girl was his class ring, many people did this back in the day when the couple was going "steady". I am much older than you but still remember when the video was first released on MTV. I was in college and we had a party the night it was to be released just to watch it. The thriller album was very hot and this video was very much anxiously awaited for.
My friends and I crossed the river to go to the Late Show club in Niagara Falls, NY just to see the premiere showing of Thriller. MTV was not available in Canada at the time. We were not Michael Jackson fans, but there was so much hype about this video we felt we just had to see it. It was well worth the trip as not only the video was great, but the music was as well. Gained a lot of respect for Michael Jackson that night.
We begged our parents to let us buy the 45 of Monster Mash! And he gave her his class ring...my mom wore my dad's on a chain around her neck.
In the album and radio version the hook comes in once before it does in the video. Such a masterpiece!
MJ was my man when I was a little girl. I was convinced I was gonna grow up and marry him! I thought he was gonna stay the age he was during his Bad era, and I would catch up to him and marry him (that’s 6 year old me child logic for you!) but any time he was on tv I would dance along with him and this was one of my favourite dances to do.
Also I watched the making of Thriller when I was a kid too and I fell in love with special effects. I wanted to do it so badly growing up. I would’ve given anything to turn someone into some type of monster and it look convincing. But the making of all of this is incredible. What they did to “pump” his face during his transformation into the wolf, and how painstakingly long it is to apply this type of makeup is just mind blowing
Vincent Price was the GOAT of horror.
The makeup and effects are awesome.
MJ was quite the showman. His dance moves challenged a generation to try and copy him .
And yes, back then you gave your girl your class ring to "go steady".
In 1997 he released a short film called Ghosts. It’s 39 minutes long but you’d love it. He does more acting & plays multiple characters in it. Would love to see that reaction
It’s also my must watch Halloween videos.
John Landis brought his team from An American Werewolf in London when Jackson asked him to direct the video.
John Landis hit an Easter egg for those who'd seen American Werewolf with the "See you next Wednesday" line. And the posters on the cinema were from the Vincent Price movie "House of wax".
@ Most, if not all, of Landis’ movies have that reference.
🎃👻👻🎃I remember going to the theatre to see this. That's how they released this, like a full-blown movie. It was awesome!🎃👻👻🎃
I play this video every year to pay homage to this great piece of art. He made great musi and you can't deny that.
This is the best choreo eva! To my knowledge nobody's ever replicated it or trying to change it. Yeah a lot of people tried to do it.
I remember waiting for this on MTV that night.
Fantastic time to be alive.
I remember when this video first came out. Everyone was ‘thrilled’. It was amazing!
Vincent Price has the most incredible voice. RIP.
This was scarier to me as a child than any Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers movie was!!! This absolutely terrified me and I couldn’t put my feet on the floor in a dark room for a year after watching this
I remember hiding behind my mom trying to watch this video when it came out on MTV. I wanted to be cool like my older cousins and watch it but it terrified me! You have to watch the documentary, "The Making of Thriller (1983)". I loved renting that video and "Michael Jackson The Legend Continues (1988)". Both great behind the scenes documentaries. 😊
MJ the King 👑
I love this MV so damn much
Wow, hadn't seen this for year, gave me the chills to see/hear it again.
It's crazy, when this music video came out on VHS tape, I wanted it but didn't have a VCR yet. A local dept. store was selling the videocassettes and played it back to back to promote sales. I don't know how many times I stood watching it in that dept. store, fascinated with MJs dancing, the choreography and just the whole production of it. And it's still fascinating to me all these years later. A classic video in every sense of the word.
Epic beyond words~~ So glad I can say I saw it when it first came out! Was blown away!
I remember when they announced when this video was going to debut on MTV. We all sat around and watched it premiere. Loved it then amd still love it.
I remember watching a making of this video on MTV, I think showing him getting the prosthetic for the werewolf creature and the dance choreography
The look on your face is priceless Happy Halloween 👻🎃
You should watch the making of this. It's great. Michael Jackson was so talented.
10:57 All Hail & Bow Down to the OG Master of Suspense & Horror; Vincent Price!
My 5year old grand daughter is obsessed with this video. She does all the dancing parts. I remember when the debut was a huge event in MTV!
This video was so huge when it came out that my 5th grade class and the class across the hall got together in one classroom and watched this on VHS on a tiny 18” TV. 60 5th graders glued to the TV! Nuts!
🌸 this is of course still amazing today but when it first came out it was just mind-blowing how advanced it was for the time
Your face first you were jamming, then when the part came with the zombies coming out, the look that on your face was priceless!!!
This came out when I was 19 and at college SDSU in Brookings SD . MTV had just started and it was an amazing dance song. Loved it!
I remember when this debuted i watched it with my parents. It was Epic to say the least. Great reaction and Peace out 🙏 ☮️ ✌️
From the first time I heard this song I thought MJ was brilliant to have the great Vincent Price do the speaking part. Listening to the master of "thriller" horror films with his incredibly creepy voice and then his evil laugh at the end was amazing! I also loved that the movie marquee when they walked out of the theater had Vincent Price - Thriller written on it. Vincent Price starred in movies when horror films could "thrill" you more with their writing and delivery of dialogue than the excessive blood and gore of some later films.
I was terrified of this as a kid!!! Now I love it!!
The most expensive music video of all time.
I skipped school when I was in tenth grade to see the premiere showing of Thriller on MTV.
One of the most fun times I had was dancing to Thriller played with the choreographed fountains at the Dubai Mall, in the UAE, the largest mall in the world. It was so cool! I couldn’t stand still. I had to dance and sing. Ha! Good memories.
Yes he put up the disclaimer cause fans believed this meant he was down with the witchcraft going on. He made them put that up. He was very upset about it.
It had to do with his religious upbringing because his parents or at least his mother was a Jehovah's Witness.
@@Skrubb_LordThe whole family were members. He put up the disclaimer after being criticized and scolded by the Jehova’s organization…..
No, he was criticized by the Jehova’s organization, so he put disclaimer up to please them.
So he had to put up a disclaimer for this but not for every time he grabbed his dick 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Anybody else remember the Dtv version of this?
I remember watching this when I was a kid (9-10) and I loved it. That first time I seen it I got to see the making of thriller and THEN they played the music video on VH1. Ghosts is the second one I loved despite it being 39 minutes long.
I remember the Halloween this video came out, everyone waited with such anticipation and MJ didn't and never does disappoint. It was bigger than huge. I love the backstory, MJ saw An American Werewolf in London and contacted John Landis, he wanted to change into a werewolf and created this around his desire to transition into a wolf. Vincent Price is a legendary horror voice. he's an old time star. John Landis created one of the most realistic transitions from man into a werewolf for the time.
MJ Legend
Michael: I'm not like other guys.
No Kidding!!!!!
I remember my family waiting for the video to drop. My mom loved MJ.
The best video ever. There will not be another one as good as this one
Greg Rolle was the vocalist on this version. This song was a cover and originally written and performed by the original members of Fleetwood Mac. Greg Rolle went in to be a founding member of Journey with Neil Schonn who was also a guitarist on this song.
British born Rod Temperton was also keyboard and vocalist for the 70's Disco/soul band Heatwave (Boogie Nights, Always And Forever), he also wrote songs for George Benson and wrote the soundtrack to the film Running Scared starrring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines, the main theme to the film was sung by Michael McDonald (Sweet Freedom) 🇬🇧
He is the king of pop I believe he is innocent I was sad when he passed away
This song and video is more than forty years old. I was about 20 years old then and hoped to see this video on MTV or my national television. Of course I bought the album as soon as it was released in The Netherlands, where I live.
The dancers were so in-sync that you can draw a straight line under their feet when they jump. Seeing this on TV when I was a kid made me want to watch horror movies. I was obsessed with the images of the zombies coming out of the ground and the creepy blue smoke all around. I’ve never seen any zombie movie that ever did it any better.
Je suis une fan absolue de Michael Jackson le plus grand artiste complet interplanétaire showman bête de scène génie talentueux brilliant unique legende merci beaucoup à vous BP 👍👏🙏💖