M M (lungs)

'`Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike
You know its thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer thriller tonight'

'Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize yawl's neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpses shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller'

'Due to my strong person convictions
I wish to stress that this film in no
way endorses a belief in the occult.'

1983 - Music Video - United States

Michael Jackson's THRILLER.



1950s. Dark black. It's a dark, sinister night as Michael Jackson (as himself - we all knew Michael) drives his creaky motor to the side of the road. He tells his date (Ola Ray, who was in several 80s horrors), 'Honestly, we're out of gas!'. She looks bemused, but becomes interested, 'So, what are we gonna do now?'.

As Michael and this young woman walk on the streets (it's not clear what they're doing, this could just be part of one of Michael's unpredictable, exciting plans from his earlier music videos), Michael stops. He turns to Ola, wearing an innocent cherry frock, and after asking her to be 'his girl', he explains that there's something he has to tell her. Suddenly, Michael in a crimson and mustard jacket, shrieks in pain, and alas we see the full moon crawl from it's darkness to illuminate the streets.

'GO AWAY!'

It looks like a B-Movie. It is. Michael and Ola are actually in a cinema watching this humorous, light entertainment. Ola gets scared, Michael teases her, and begins the first verse of one of the most 'magical', entertaining, revolutionary tracks I have ever heard.



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Not only - arguably - the best track off his second solo album with Epic Records, Thriller (arguably - the best album of all time, evidently - the best selling album of all time), but also one of the best tracks of all time, as well as the best (most expensive at $1,000,000) music video, some ultimate shots and scenes are present here. The creativity and genius of Michael Jackson will never be forgotten.

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