Strictly bosses 'line up Sophie Morgan as show's first ever wheelchair He opens the window and she almost falls. She gets a tattoo and a belly button piercing. Michael Jackson: Thriller (Music Video 1983) - Trivia - IMDb Genre Adventure, Action, Science Fiction. According to Baker, he technically portrays a "werecat. 2, and Madonna's Vogue at No. "I recall everybody at college talking about it; about how it was like a mini-movie and how much it had cost. The girls are together when the guy comes knocking and slam the door in his face. "It had some magic that made it shine. T. (Pretty Young Thing)," all hit the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, with "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" going the extra mile, all the way to #1. 1. She later lies next to the charred remains. He and Peters imagined how the zombies would move by making faces in the mirror, incorporating "jazzy" moves, "not too much ballet or whatever". [19] The success transformed Jackson into a dominant force in global pop culture, and cemented his status as the "king of pop". [10] At the time, commercial directors did not direct music videos, but Landis was intrigued. [12] Perhaps the most ingenious[editorializing] episode is the Dial M for Murder-style "The Double Kill", in which a man hires a hitman to kill his wife, but makes a fatal error in his otherwise meticulous planning. Dendle wrote that the video captures the feelings of claustrophobia and helplessness essential to zombie films. Tom Petty channeled "Alice in Wonderland" for the "Don't Come Around Here No More" music video. One of the lengthiest music videos made at the time, running for 14 minutes and 7 seconds. "[11], Thriller was the first time Jackson had interacted with a woman in a video, which Landis described as a "breakthrough". [8], In 2009, Landis sued Jackson in a dispute over royalties for the video, saying Jackson had failed to pay him 50% of the proceeds. The "Love Shack" video was filmed at the home of ceramic artists Philip Maberry and Scott Walker and shows people grooving and having a fun party in this place in the middle of some woods. She said: "You look at those early videos and they were shockingly bad. It's hard to forget, and it won a Grammy for best music video. The "Bad Romance" video is artistic and creative yet political in nature. Between the visuals and the overall story, West's artful vision is memorable. [9][14] Brian Clemens' own favourite episode, "A Coffin for the Bride" (US: Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill), featured a performance from a young Helen Mirren.[15]. [8], Weeks before the premiere, Jackson, then a Jehovah's Witness, was told by the organization leaders that the film promoted demonology and that he would be excommunicated. Back in 1983, the video was preceded by a disclaimer from the singer, who said: "Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult." [8] In a statement published in Awake!, a magazine published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, Jackson said: "I just intended to do a good, fun short film, not to purposely bring to the screen something to scare people or to do anything bad. Additionally, Landis equates the process of man turning to beast, in "Thriller" and in other werewolf-based movies (such as the director's own An American Werewolf in London), with puberty. The video even won a Grammy. Born August 24, 1928, Died October 19, 1961, Resurrected December 3, 1983. | Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. ", Jonze took the freedom he sensed in Thriller and also its eccentricity and humour and ran with it, creating some of the 90s' most famous music videos, including the Beastie Boys' Sabotage and Praise You by Fatboy Slim, which also get continually spoofed. Other videos that featured highly in yesterday's poll included Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody at No. There's even data to suggest that the existence of Making Michael Jackson's Thriller helped fuel the massive rise of VCR sales in late 1983. [13], Other memorable episodes include: "Someone at the Top of the Stairs", one of a handful of forays into the supernatural, in which two female students move into a boarding house and begin to notice that none of the other residents ever go out or receive any mail; and "I'm The Girl He Wants to Kill", in which a witness to a murder finds herself trapped in a deserted office block overnight with the killer, and is forced to play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with him to survive (there is barely any dialogue throughout its second half). [30] "Thriller" has become closely associated with Halloween;[31][14] in 2016, US president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama danced to the song with schoolchildren at a White House Halloween event. Adobe Premiere Pro 2023 is an impressive application which allows you to easily and quickly create high-quality content for film, broadcast, web, and more. And there's some weird bugs crawling at various points. After falling asleep and dreaming that a saint statue turned into the man, she wakes up, goes to the prison, and tells them that the man is innocent. "For nearly three decades, music-related projects had to conform to TV's rules," says Giorgio Testi, who makes artful, elegant films with bands like the Killers and Savages that are not related to a single's release, yet clock up hundreds of thousands of views online. Jackson's success ensured the lifting of a ban on black video by MTV in the US. The actress claimed that back in the 1980s, she was promised a portion of the "Thriller" profits (2.5 percent, according to Courthouse News), and yet, more than two decades later, she hadn't received any money since some initial payments. The Thriller video makes many allusions to horror films. The 13-minute film that resulted changed the music video for ever, becoming less a promo clip than a cultural phenomenon. In December 2009, the Library of Congress selected the video for the National Film Registry. This weekend, HBO and HBO Max will premiere the first episode of "The Last of Us," a post-apocalyptic thriller based on the popular video game. Directed by John Landis, known for "Animal House" and "An American Werewolf in London," the mini-movie has the perfect horror aesthetic. The video does feature a couple of clips of her walking through Parc de Saint-Cloud in Paris, but the emotional close-ups are the most striking parts. It's like he's disconnected from everything and everyone, and that's exciting. Thriller was an event even when it was being shot in October 1983. The video is as fun as the song itself. | The flipside of all these interviews, sessions and phone footage is that it takes the heat off music videos, making the traditional performance video completely redundant. The "Honey" video starts with Mariah Carey as a Bond-esque spy named Agent M who is being held hostage by an organization known as D.U.N.C.E. [35] It was remastered in IMAX 3D for a limited engagement in 2018, preceding screenings of The House With a Clock in Its Walls in North America for its first week. [8], According to Landis, when he called Yetnikoff to propose the film, he swore so loudly he had to remove the phone from his ear. The speed of the video shifts with the music resulting in a satisfying video. "Out of all my videos, it was the least expensive and took the least amount of time. This brilliant video won the VMA for video of the year. Jackson was all in, especially after Landis said he could probably get An American Werewolf in London makeup master Rick Baker involved. The rules have been rewritten, unleashing a new surge of creativity. And people have been copying it ever since.". Millions of people who somehow hadn't yet purchased Thriller were inspired to do so, and during the peak of the video's popularity, the album sold more than a million copies a week, according to Vanity Fair. The actress and the musician wound up getting along just fine more than fine, actually. "It was really groundbreaking to have such a long video, and it helped to shape the future of music videos, which previously had been more performance-based," she says. According to Vanity Fair, Vestron Video helped offset the high production cost of "Thriller" by paying for the VHS and Betamax distribution rights for the Making Michael Jackson's Thriller documentary and then gave it a $29.95 retail price tag. More than 300 people dressed as Bush in the red dress recreated her video in a Brighton park in 2013. [8] The production team agreed to protect the negatives and locked them in Branca's office. By the time Thriller's sales cycle wound down in 1984, it was the best-selling LP of all time in the United States, with sales of 33 million. [23] He said it was the "mini-movie that revolutionized music videos" and "cemented Jackson's status as one of the most ambitious, innovative pop stars of all time". They run naked on a beach, they wear ridiculous outfits, and they rock out in front of crowds of people. Thriller, released in 1983, was initially given a late-night premiere on Channel 4 - a formula repeated by Jackson five years later with his Bad video. Miss Scarlet and The Duke, Season 1-2 | Watch Now. I'm sure VCRs had timers even then. Directed by Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl, the video follows a man, whose face is never shown, as he rescues a baby, a dog, and grabs a photo from a burning building. The video features a ghost, tombstones rising from the ground, zombie gorillas, and pop culture references including ones to "Resident Evil" and "Braindead.". It took videos to another level, but in my world and in the world of artists I was dealing with, it's almost like it didn't relate.". During all the chaos, lead singer Brendon Urie is the ringmaster. PopCap agreed to remove the Thriller zombies and replace them with generic disco-dancing zombies. "I auditioned a lot of girls and this girl Ola Ray first of all, she was crazy for Michael," Landis said. It was shown on Channel 4 in November 1983 at something like 1 in the morning, as I remember sitting up waiting for it to come on and then being amazed and a little bit scared as I was only 13 at the time. My DS1 does sound more like the OPs, and unlike some children, he is more likely to admit to feeling upset or Much of Cher's body is exposed and both she and the Navy received criticism for it. The audio was also updated to 5.1, 7.1 and Dolby Atmos standards.