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{{quote|''"No mere mortal can resist... the e-vil of the Thrillerrrr!"''|'''[[Vincent Price]]'''}}
 
"'''Thriller'''" is a 1982 song by [[Michael Jackson]], released in the album of the same name. The following year, there was a music video, titled '''''[[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|Michael Jackson's]] Thriller''''', directed and co-written by [[John Landis]] ([[Animal House|Yes,]] [[An American Werewolf in London|that]] [[The Blues Brothers|one!]]) With the choreography and the pioneering of the short film music video, it was released to much acclaim, selling over nine million units and being inducted into the Library of Congress's National Film Registry in 2009.
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The music video was [https://www.michaeljackson.com/news/michael-jacksons-thriller-3d-premiere-venice-film-festival-2/ restored and converted to 3D] in 2017, premiering at that year's Venice Film Festival.
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* [[Creepy Cemetery]]
* [[The Dead Can Dance]]: There's slow zombies, fast zombies, and then there's ''[[Our Zombies Are Different|funk zombies]]''.
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* [[Spoken Word in Music]]: Vincent Price's short monologue at the end.
* [[Talky Bookends]]: Popularized the concept.
* [[Wham! Shot]]: Michael Jackson's sudden transformation into a zombie -- followed by the [[The End - or Is It?]] moment in its final seconds.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]
 
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