You See A Sight That Almost Stops Your Heart

The video for Michael Jackson's Thriller was a 14 minute short film.

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Thriller was the title track from Jackson's 1982 album with 45 million worldwide sales, seven Top-Ten U.S. singles and eight Grammy awards. Thriller is also the best-selling album of all time.

The video is a micro horror flick in which Jackson, clad in a zipper-adorned red leather jacket, transforms into a werewolf and chases, with an accompanying horde of decaying zombies, his screaming date through a classic 50s horror film setting.

In the end it is revealed that Michael and his date were instead just watching a horror movie in a theatre which she transposed herself and Michael into.

Upon leaving the theatre, Jackson turns around to reveal his greenish-yellow eyes and fangs, leaving us to wonder, was it really just a dream?

Vincent Price, the Master Of The Macabre, provides a spooky narrative for the song.

Proving that reality is stranger than fiction, Jackson himself has transformed over the years. No longer the dark-skinned child that sang with the Jackson 5, Michael Jackson of today is at least as scary as the werewolf of the Thriller video.