They made something that was so perfect for the early 80s. On June 27, 2011, the red jacket Jackson wore in this video sold for 1.8 million dollars at Julien's Auctions of Beverly Hills. Thoroughly upset, Jackson ordered his lawyer, John Branca, to destroy the "Thriller" negatives. But yesterday Michael Jackson's Thriller video was named the greatest pop video of all time in a survey of viewers of the VH1 music channel. With James Purefoy, Charlie Creed-Miles, Sasha Behar, Dervla Kirwan. Thriller was an event even when it was being shot in October 1983. It's like he's disconnected from everything and everyone, and that's exciting. To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account. Six Girls Aloud videos later and Thriller is still part of Bellinger's life. To be eligible for the Oscars, it needed a week-long theatrical release, so Landis arranged for it to open, bizarrely, for Disney's Fantasia at a single cinema in LA. This is to say nothing of the countless videos, viral and otherwise, of people re-creating the familiar "Thriller" dance moves particularly the stylized zombie movements at weddings, block parties, and Halloween celebrations. C4 showed it on the Friday night but it was incomplete and none of the end credits were shown. At Murphy's insistence, the film was played again. Injustice: Created by Anthony Horowitz. 1. We didn't get a Channel 4 signal until late 84 so missed out entirely! The singer and the filmmaker met, and Landis dismissed the notion of presenting "Thriller" as a typical, cheaply made music video. [10] He wanted to make a theatrical short rather than a standard music video, and hoped to use Jackson's celebrity to return theatrical shorts to popularity. One of the Zombie ladies from "Thriller" short film by Michael Jackson is Claire Sisk Reeves. [11], Landis's wife Deborah Nadoolman, who had recently worked on the film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), designed the costumes, including Jackson's red jacket. "I auditioned a lot of girls and this girl Ola Ray first of all, she was crazy for Michael," Landis said. [12][18] After each broadcast, MTV advertised when they would next play it, and recorded audience figures ten times the norm. The clips promoting "Thriller" helped turn MTV into a vital cultural force, solidified Jackson's stature as the "King of Pop," and significantly raised both the quality and expectations of music videos. During the elaborate production of this music video. She was the first woman to win video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards for the work. The proposed cost of the "Thriller" video: slightly less than $1 million. Welcome to the Digital Spy forums. According to Baker, he technically portrays a "werecat. Marlon Brando, Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson and Jackie Kennedy Onassis all turned up on set, and Eddie Murphy, Prince and Diana Ross were spotted at the private premiere on 14 November. Directed by F. Gary Gray, who also directed "Straight Out of Compton" and "The Fate of the Furious," the "Waterfalls" video is emotional. When I started directing videos myself a few years later, it was like a touchpoint. [2] With an eye to the American re-broadcast market, most episodes, especially from the second season onwards, featured at least one American principal character, portrayed by an American actor. 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. Stars: Alexander Arnold, David Bamber, Claudie Blakley, Denise Gough Votes: 3,682 3. Michael Jackson, at the time being a devout Jehovah's Witness, feared that the video would go against his fans' religious beliefs and feared backlash. The audience gave the film a standing ovation. Her 10-year-old son recently learned the routines at a holiday kids' club in Turkey, reminding her of the huge impact it had on kids in the 1980s. But that night is also known as the night Kanye West got on stage and interrupted Taylor Swift's speech after she beat Beyonc in the best female video category. If youd like to join in, please sign in or register. "Scream," written in response to media backlash Michael Jackson was facing, places the two siblings on a spacecraft. It may seem odd to have a cat playing her love interest as she sings about loving a guy despite their differences, yet that's the theme of the video. Love it or hate it, labels are obsessed with it and it's here to stay. TheOddOne - no, I know . Michael Jackson is amazing. 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. Much of Cher's body is exposed and both she and the Navy received criticism for it. 1983 - Channel 4 premiere of Michael Jackson's Thriller video - YouTube 0:00 / 0:30 1983 - Channel 4 premiere of Michael Jackson's Thriller video Blocks Videos 11.2K subscribers 65 7.4K. The suit alleged that Landis didn't receive his promised 50-percent cut of the profits and that Jackson and company acted with "fraudulent, malicious, and oppressive conduct" in withholding what The Hollywood Reporter said amounted to about $2.3 million. Soundtracks. It's hard to forget. The pair conceived a short film with a budget much larger than previous music videos. The remastered 3D version first premiered at the 74th Venice Film Festival on September 4th, 2017 alongside the 'Making Of' documentary. ThrillerVideo ThrillerVideo was a horror home video series that began being released in February 1985 to 1987 by U.S.A. Home Video and International Video Entertainment (I.V.E.). At the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, "Thriller" surprisingly lost Video of the Year to the Cars' "You Might Think.". "[8] According to Vanity Fair, Jackson preferred "benign Disney-esque fantasies where people were nice and children were safe", which ensured the video would be "creepy-comical, not genuinely terrifying". [8] According to Landis, Ola Ray, a former Playboy Playmate, was cast as she was "crazy for Michael" and had a "great smile". '"[20], The Thriller video sealed MTV's position as a major cultural force, helped disassemble racial barriers for black artists, revolutionized music video production, popularized making-of documentaries, and drove rentals and sales of VHS tapes. The imagery in Lamar's "Humble" is evocative and breathtaking. On Sunday, January 15, it will debut on HBO at 9 . This ground-breaking video is the toast of MTV and will forever be remembered for what is the greatest music video of all time!! I was yet another taper of the original Channel 4 broadcast. Kendrick Lamar's "Humble" is an incredible video. Outlander. He really was childlike. 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 black-and-white "Rhythm Nation" video is known for its military-style outfits, warehouse setting, and choreography, which has inspired numerous dance routines since the video was released. This short film displays the absolute highest standard in music video and no-one will ever be able to out-beat this 'King Of Pop' masterpiece! Jackson was all in, especially after Landis said he could probably get An American Werewolf in London makeup master Rick Baker involved. [10] "Come Out Come Out, Wherever You Are" takes place at a creaky country house hotel: a female guest begins asking about her missing travelling companion whom the owner claims was not with her upon arrival the previous evening and whom none of the other guests initially recall seeing. "Thriller" never really stopped being popular. The LP is only nine tracks long, andseven of those of those were commercially released singles: "The Girl is Mine," "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," "Human Nature," and "P.Y. "In many ways, it wasn't something you really wanted to aspire to," he says. Her father, a hunter, disapproves of their romance and tries to shoot antler boy with an arrow but he's hit by a car. Peter Gabriel's video for "Sledgehammer" was an impressive 16-hour feat. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [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]. It won a Grammy for best music video. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" clip permanently elevated the medium of music video to artistic and cinematic relevance at a time when it was still relatively new and directionless. During all the chaos, lead singer Brendon Urie is the ringmaster. Following a worldwide audit during 200304 by the then copyright-holders Carlton, almost all the original UK PAL fisheye-titled 2" videotapes of Thriller were located and transferred onto modern digital tape by the British Film Institute, with subsequent restoration work by BBC Resources. [8], The video debuted on MTV alongside Making Michael Jackson's Thriller on December 2, 1983. Also, the group performs in water and in liquefied forms in front of a waterfall. She was the mother of the character Ken Reeves from the TV Show "The White Shadow". [37], The video game Plants vs. Zombies by PopCap Games contained a reference to the Thriller music video in its original releases from May 2009 (a month before Jackson's death) until it was removed in July 2010. It's simple, yet incredibly impressive. However, Ray sued Jackson on May 6, 2009, less than two months before his death on June 25. "I absolutely didn't expect that.". And so, that's what happened, although Jackson's character doesn't, per common knowledge, become a werewolf. Cannot remember the excate time but dout it was 1 am as we would of not been allowed to stay up. The music video director Brian Grant credited Thriller as the turning point when music videos became a "proper industry". He soon finds himself working as part of a trio of vets alongside Siegfried and his younger brother, Tristan. "It had some magic that made it shine. The "Life on Mars" music video was filmed for the song's release as a single. A making-of documentary, Making Michael Jackson's Thriller, was produced to sell to television networks. This did not stop him being threatened with expulsion from his church because of the film's subject matter. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. One major part of the early concept was rejected. Then she wakes and crawls outside to walk along the ledge. It was also the first big break for drag queen RuPaul. In January 2009, nearly three decades after production on the video wrapped, Landis sued Jackson and his production company for having failed to fork over what was due over the years. They run naked on a beach, they wear ridiculous outfits, and they rock out in front of crowds of people. The "Dancing Zombie" enemy was originally resembled Jackson dressed in his Thriller outfit and the "Backup Dancer Zombies" that surrounded the Dancing Zombie resembled the backup dancers from the part of Thriller where Jackson turns onto a zombie. In 2008 a DVD box set containing all six series was released. What worries me a bit is the kids who have a bit of bravado, and don't admit they are afraid, and then have nightmares. Eminem impersonates various TV shows and people throughout the video for "My Name Is." Within just a few months of release in November 1983, it had sold over a million copies, easily making it the best-selling home video ever to that point. 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. TV-MA | 240 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller 7.4 Rate A young couple move into an apartment only to find the body of a young woman that had been missing for 2 years but never registered as missing which leads to a deeper investigation into what actually happened. Other videos that featured highly in yesterday's poll included Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody at No.