Very disappointed :(

Great Film overall

A Disappointing Continuation

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This is a music video and short horror film at the same time. I think It is a great. Great music. It also has great singing. It also has great dancing. It is very scary. It also great acting. It also has great special effects. This is one of the best music videos ever. It also one of the best short horror films ever. This is a music video that had the man who wrote and directed An American werewolf in London. This is awesome. I like the way it so scary. If you have not seen this video see it. It is great. 8.6 is a good rating. But this such great video that 8.6 is underrating it. I give this a 10.

I am not much of a Michael Jackson fan before, during, or after his death. But still this music video really helped put music videos on the map. As Michael seems to have fun with this video. Like he and his date, are watching a movie.It seems of themselves as Jackson's character on the screen turns into a wolf. Starts to chase her around after he does so. But when his date leaves the theater. Wanting to do away, with his kidding, Michael starts to sing the song.We then have the late Vince Price use his monologue. And then Michael turning into a zombie and dancing with other zombies. While his date now has been frightened of him. In the end, all is well that ends well. A revolutionary music video that helped really put MTV and other music videos on the map!

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.

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...