Last night, comedian and Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. whiled away his Wednesday evening the same way so many adults do, which is to say he spent a few hours obsessing over Michael Jackson’s 14-minute music-video classic “Thriller.” The result reimagines the iconic short film from the perspective of Jackson’s…
After watching An American Werewolf In London, Michael Jackson contacted John Landis to direct the music video for “Thriller.” The resulting video was iconic—it changed the media landscape, breaking down MTV’s color barrier and reinvigorating the home video market. John Landis debuted a remastered and 3D converted…
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video was inspired by John Landis’ movie An American Werewolf In London. Jackson, according to Landis, loved the visual effects from the film and wanted to turn into a monster onscreen. The resulting video ended up sparking change across the media landscape, breaking down MTV’s color…
It’s fairly common knowledge that Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video was inspired by John Landis’ movie An American Werewolf In London. After watching the film, Jackson contacted Landis, who agreed to direct the video. In the video above, Landis talks about the conceptualization of “Thriller,” his experience…
Anyone hoping to put on the year’s most impressive Halloween-themed light display should probably just give up right now. There is very little chance of topping what Creative Lighting Displays has achieved for an event called Thriller Nights Of Lights, currently running at Hank Aaron Stadium in Mobile, Alabama.…
As reported by the BBC, songwriter Rod Temperton has died, following what a statement from Warner/Chappell Music group calls “a brief aggressive battle with cancer.” Temperton was the writer behind a number of huge hits over the years, most notably Michael Jackson’s “Rock With You” and the massively popular…
Some movies try to blend genres as a master chef would blend cuisines, combining flavors—some familiar, some exotic—to create an experience unlike any you’ve experienced before. Not so with When The Bough Breaks, a textbook potboiler starring Regina Hall as Laura Taylor, a chef (thus the metaphor) who we never…
Discogs, the crowdsourced site favored by record collectors across the world, has released its data for 2015 in a new report. The report details various trends in music, such as a breakdown of new releases by month in 2015, as well as the buying and collecting habits of its users, which rose by 31 percent last year.…
It’s not surprising that Fiona Barton’s debut novel The Widow was optioned by the team behind the Wolf Hall miniseries before it even hit stores. The story, which primarily follows a suburban British woman dealing with unwanted attention from the press and police after her husband is accused of abducting and murdering…
In a shared lesson in both vocabulary, and the staying power of danceable, werewolf-themed grooves, Variety is reporting that Michael Jackson’s Thriller has become America’s first trigintuple—that is, 30 times—platinum-selling album. (That’s 30 million copies sold, for those of you that don’t grok record label metal…
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President Obama has always been prone to musical interludes, whether it’s crooning the opening bars of “At Last” or singing a few lines of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.” But some of the best musical performances in his presidential terms have come from YouTube user Baracksdubs, who previously had the commander in…
When most of us hear “Thriller,” we don’t think, “Hey, I wonder just how many different styles this song could be performed in, perhaps one after the other, for only 10 seconds at a time?” Luckily, we have the Internet to do that for us.
John Landis, a man who never met an interview he didn’t like, recently sat down for an interview with the New York Daily News about Michael Jackson’s Thriller, because it’ll be unavoidable soon enough. Landis, who directed the 13-minute music video beloved by everyone except Jehovah’s Witnesses, filed a lawsuit…
With so many new series popping up on streaming services and DVD, it gets harder and harder to keep up with recent shows, much less the all-time classics. With TV Club 10, we point you toward the 10 episodes that best represent a TV series, classic or modern. They might not be the 10 best episodes, but they’re the 10…
