Michael Jackson's Thriller

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Charlton Heston has a cameo in the music video as a audience member and is seen sitting next to Mich [...]	D
Michael Jackson almost destroyed the video after negative feedback from fellow Jehovah's Witnesses. [...]	D
The zombie's costumes were purchased from The Salvation Army.	D
John Landis made the film because he saw a great opportunity to bring back the theatrical short. "I [...]	D
According to Deborah Nadoolman, at the time of filming twenty-five-year-old Michael Jackson weighed [...]	D
The theatre in the movie is the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles, where John Landis had filmed Ridere p [...]	D
An uncredited Frank Welker did Michael Jackson's vocal sounds as he becomes the werecat. He said it [...]	D
Rod Temperton, who had written the lyrics to the video's song "Thriller", had added a 'talking secti [...]	D
Michael Jackson, at the time being a devout Jehovah's Witness, feared that the video would go agains [...]	D
In December 2009, the Library of Congress selected the video for the National Film Registry. It was [...]	D
Jackson was 25 years old at the time of filming.	D
The film had a brief theatrical release in Los Angeles at the AVCO Theater - it played for three wee [...]	D
In 2006, the Guinness World Records listed it as the "most successful music video of all time."	D
Michael Jackson offered to finance the video himself, but John Landis refused, because Jackson "was [...]	D
Michael Jackson had seen John Landis' Un lupo mannaro americano a Londra (1981) and called Landis va [...]	D
The short film was packaged on home video with The Making of 'Thriller' (1983) as "Making Michael Ja [...]	D
The song was originally going to be called "Starlight".	D
British comedian Lenny Henry parodied the music video in The Lenny Henry Show (1984).	D
Michael Jackson admitted that at one point he was close to abandoning the song: "The mixes sucked. W [...]	D
The signs on the theater are as follows: The main sign reads "Vincent Price's Thriller". Vincent Pri [...]	D
Before agreeing to direct, John Landis insisted that the extras spend two weeks rehearsing with thei [...]	D
Rick Baker: When the zombies begin to rise from their graves, the film's makeup artist can be seen a [...]	D
The video's budget was five hundred thousand dollars. At the time, music videos cost around one hund [...]	D
One of the lengthiest music videos made at the time, running for 14 minutes and 7 seconds. Michael J [...]	D
The short film premiered on NBC's music video block Friday Night Videos.	D
Michael Jackson's sister Janet Jackson played one of the zombies.	D
The score heard in this music video is actually unused music from composer Elmer Bernstein's previou [...]	D
John Landis: Rick Baker created the make-up effects.	D
Michael Jackson never toured from the Thriller album. In an effort to keep it at number one, he made [...]	D
When Michael Jackson was informed that his co-star Ola Ray had posed nude for Playboy for the June 1 [...]	D
John Landis brought in the same make-up and special effects wizards he worked with on Un lupo mannar [...]	D
The video was shot in four days.	D
Michael Jackson turning around at the end, showing his werewolf eyes, was parodied at the end of 'We [...]	D
John Landis: [SYNW] "See you next Wednesday" spoken by someone in the movie that Michael and Ola are [...]	D
This is the first video Michael Jackson and John Landis worked on. They would work together again on [...]	D
One of the Zombie ladies from "Thriller" short film by Michael Jackson is Claire Sisk Reeves. She wa [...]	D
When it was released on VHS in the UK, the short film was given the "15" certificate for its frighte [...]	D
On June 27, 2011, the red jacket Jackson wore in this video sold for 1.8 million dollars at Julien's [...]	D
Filmeditor Marshall Harvey had previously been hired by John Landis to make the behind the scenes fo [...]	D
Rick Baker was unsure about working on this film at first, thinking the actors couldn't handle the m [...]	D
The video has received over 700 million views on YouTube.	D
Michael's red jacket was designed by John Landis' wife Deborah Nadoolman.	D
In 2018, the short film was digitally remastered exclusively for IMAX 3D theaters, playing before Il [...]	D
During the elaborate production of this music video, Michael Jackson performed his legendary "moonwa [...]	D
The sound of the growling animal during the transformation is the same sound from John Landis' film [...]	D

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