Summary Michael Jackson's Thriller (music video)



michael jackson dancing living dead.


due jackson being jehovah s witness @ time, video begins disclaimer reads:



due strong personal convictions, wish stress film in no way endorses belief in occult.

—michael jackson



on night set in 1950s, teenaged michael , unnamed girlfriend (ola ray), run out of gas while driving in wooded area. walk forest leave car behind , michael asks girlfriend. accepts , gives ring. however, tells not other guys. tells him s reason loves him, michael insists doesn t understand means. girlfriend asks s talking about, full moon appears, , michael begins transforming werecat, growling @ leave in process. girl screams in terror , attempts escape, werecat chases her, knocks down, lunges @ claws, , attacks (off-screen).


the scene cuts movie theater michael , unnamed girlfriend, along excitable audience, watching scene unfold in vincent price horror movie titled thriller . afraid, michael s girlfriend leaves theater , michael follows, telling her, s movie. debate follows whether or not scared movie; denies it, michael disagrees.


they walk down foggy road michael sings verses of song excluding chorus. pass nearby graveyard, in undead begin rise out of graves vincent price s speech heard. zombies corner 2 main characters threateningly, , suddenly, michael becomes zombie himself. zombies break elaborate dance number, followed main chorus of thriller (during michael reverts human form), frightening date point runs cover.


michael (who has turned zombie) , fellow corpses chase terrified girl room of nearby abandoned house. while being cornered, michael reaches girl s throat lets out horrifying shriek, awake , realize nightmare. michael offers take home, , happily accepts. walk out of house, michael turns camera sinister grin, revealing yellow werecat eyes opening scene, vincent price offers 1 last spine-tingling , echoing laugh.


as credits shown, reprise scene shown , @ end of credits zombies dance graves disclaimer appears saying similarity actual events or persons living, dead, (or undead) purely coincidental , same disclaimer appeared in american werewolf in london directed landis. after that, zombie breaks fourth wall , gives terrifying grimace audience screen fades black.








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