by: -RoG-

The camera pans all the way around his girlfriend and she's now standing face to face with a completely zombified Michael Jackson. This leads up to a classic zoom-dolly shot where she's frozen in terror, and while Hitchcock invented the trick, I think this is easily one of the best uses of it you'll ever see. And then, going against all previous notions of zombies we've ever seen, Zombie Michael starts to dance!

Those eyes... THOSE EYES!! Have you ever seen a better pair of hallowed out zombie eyes in your life? Combined with the involuntary twitching and the mouth that keeps opening for gasps of air, Michael had truly become the ultimate zombie. He also had some pretty sweet dance moves too such as...

The Zombie Pizzazz!

The Zombie Crotch-Thrust!

The Zombie Slide!

The Zombie Wave!

As if those slick dance moves weren't enough, it's now time for the...

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Michael and his zombie squad then stomp off into the night, only to turn around revealing that Michael is back to his normal human self - yet still singing and dancing with the undead.

A few of the undead guys have stepped aside to show off their robotic dance moves too. For a bunch of forty-thousand-year-old corpses, these guys are pretty limber!

After commanding his zombies to "riiiiiiiiiiiiiise!" he turns back around with an "ow!" and has now returned to his zombie form once again.

Unlike her 1950's movie self, his girlfriend doesn't wait around screaming any longer. She starts running away from Michael and his creepy-assed eyes. But rather than run back to the theater where there's safety in numbers, she runs up into an old abandoned haunted house type o' place. Again, smart girl.

The zombies make their way up to the house slowly, and while speed isn't their thing, they do possess more than enough strength to break through the walls, doors and windows of the place.

Oh and the floors too. Yeah, that one zombie decided that going through the front door or the windows was just too easy. Then again, maybe he was buried under the house and was just coming to life. I guess we'll never know.

Michael then breaks through the door to the room that his girlfriend is hiding in, and tosses aside the makeshift barricade which she left in front of it as if it were nothing.

Completely surrounded by Michael and the other zombies, she can only do one thing and stare into Mike's eyes...

Those big, white, sunken, haunting eyes that keep getting closer and closer and...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

She screams her ass off one last time, only to realize that she's safe 'n sound back at Michael's pad. Everything is back to normal and Mike offers to take her home. Looks like it was all a dream...

OR WAS IT!?

It's the perfect ending to a perfect music video. I'll always have great memories of watching Thriller, and I owe a lot of credit to it for making me obsessed with Halloween and the world of zombies in general. If you haven't ever seen it, I *highly* recommend you track down a copy of the old "Making Michael Jackson's Thriller" video tape. In addition to the Thriller music video itself, the tape has all sorts of great behind the scenes footage from the dance choreography, the wolf and zombies make-up being applied, crazed fans and much more. Here's part 1:

You can view the rest of the making of Thriller HERE on Youtube.

Click here to watch the full 13-minute "Thriller" video on Youtube.

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