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* SpecialEffectFailure: When Michael [[FaceRevealingTurn looks at the audience]] at the end of the video to reveal his werecat eyes, you can see that the lens on his left eye is a bit crooked.
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* FranchiseOriginalSin: As beloved as the video is, almost everything that would come to be mocked in his later "short films" starting with "Music/{{Bad}}" begins with it: extended TalkyBookends that could be excised without affecting the ExcusePlot, celebrity cameos (Creator/VincentPrice's "rap" here), state-of-the-art special effects lingered upon for minutes on end, and a big-name director behind the camera. The difference is that beyond the novelty of all this in 1983, these elements work together as a piece -- it's a horror movie pastiche befitting a song about horror movies. Later "short films" would have increasingly ridiculous and random {{Excuse Plot}}s and TalkyBookends, name directors hired solely to give Jackson "street" credibility, celebrity cameos that left them [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece extremely dated]] within five years or so, and (in the more fantastical examples) then-state-of-the-art effects shoehorned in every nook and cranny because Jackson was ''the greatest entertainer in the world'' and nothing less would do for him.
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* SignatureScene: The zombie dance, naturally.
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* SignatureScene: The [[TheDeadCanDance zombie dance, naturally.dance]], naturally.
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* NightmareFuel: The initial JumpScare in the music video where he turns around to reveal that he's turning into a werewolf.
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* NightmareFuel: The initial JumpScare in the music video where he turns around to reveal that he's turning into a werewolf.werecat, followed by the transformation itself.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The iconic zombie dance sequence counts as one - it comes in the middle of the music video's plot out of absolutely nowhere, featuring no explanation to why Michael Jackson turned into a zombie (as he isn't shown being bitten) and why the girl isn't. The zombies, which were earlier shown having typical ZombieGait, are somehow able to pull off elaborate dance moves in unison, while the girl is absent from the scene. In the midst of ''this'', there's Michael's UnexplainedRecovery to turn back into a human - another BLAM within a BLAM. Once the scene ends, the girl is back, Michael is a zombie again, and nobody acknowledges that the scene ever occurred. This doesn't stop it from being one of the best scenes recorded in a music video, though.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The iconic zombie dance sequence counts as one - it comes in the middle of the music video's plot out of absolutely nowhere, featuring no explanation to why Michael Jackson turned into a zombie (as he isn't shown being bitten) and why the girl isn't. The zombies, which were earlier shown having typical ZombieGait, are somehow able to pull off elaborate dance moves in unison, while the girl is absent from the scene. In the midst of ''this'', there's Michael's UnexplainedRecovery to turn back into a human - another BLAM within a BLAM. Once the scene ends, the girl is back, Michael is a zombie again, and nobody acknowledges that the scene ever occurred. [[TropesAreTools This doesn't stop it from being one of the best scenes recorded in a music video, though.]]
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* MemeticMutation: One of the great pre-internet ones, the video popularized the concept of dancing zombies in pop culture, and even today if zombies dance, odds are they're doing something at least highly reminicent of the Thriller Dance.
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* MemeticMutation: MemeticMutation:
** One of the great pre-internet ones, the video popularized the concept of dancing zombies in pop culture, and even today if zombies dance, odds are they're doing something at least highly reminicent of the Thriller Dance.
** One of the great pre-internet ones, the video popularized the concept of dancing zombies in pop culture, and even today if zombies dance, odds are they're doing something at least highly reminicent of the Thriller Dance.
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* AwardSnub: It lost the inaugural MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year to Music/TheCars' "You Might Think", which was a pioneering video when it came to using [=CGI=] in music videos, but today the video is only remembered by the band's fans and [=CGI=] enthusiasts, while "Thriller" remains known as a landmark in music videos.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The iconic zombie dance sequence counts as one - it comes in the middle of the music video's plot out of absolutely nowhere, featuring no explanation to why Michael Jackson turned into a zombie (as he isn't shown being bitten) and why the girl isn't. The zombies, which were earlier shown having typical ZombieGait, are somehow able to pull off elaborate dance moves in unison, while the girl is absent from the scene. In the midst of ''this'', there's Michael's UnexplainedRecovery to turn back into a human - another BLAM within a BLAM. Once the scene ends, the girl is back, Michael is a zombie again, and nobody acknowledges that the scene ever occurred. This doesn't stop it from being one of the best scenes recorded in a music video, though.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The iconic zombie dance sequence counts as one - it comes in the middle of the music video's plot out of absolutely nowhere, featuring no explanation to why Michael Jackson turned into a zombie (as he isn't shown being bitten) and why the girl isn't. The zombies, which were earlier shown having typical ZombieGait, are somehow able to pull off elaborate dance moves in unison, while the girl is absent from the scene. In the midst of ''this'', there's Michael's UnexplainedRecovery to turn back into a human - another BLAM within a BLAM. Once the scene ends, the girl is back, Michael is a zombie again, and nobody acknowledges that the scene ever occurred. This doesn't stop it from being one of the best scenes recorded in a music video, though.
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** And then in internet forums, a GIF image of Michael eating popcorn in the theater is used a lot, as a way of saying PassThePopcorn below in a thread.
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** And then in internet forums, a GIF image of Michael eating popcorn in the theater is used a lot, as a way of saying PassThePopcorn below in a thread.thread.
* NightmareFuel: The initial JumpScare in the music video where he turns around to reveal that he's turning into a werewolf.
* SecondVerseCurse: The bridge does not appear at all in the music video, largely because there's no way to make the lyric fit with the plot.
* SignatureScene: The zombie dance, naturally.
* NightmareFuel: The initial JumpScare in the music video where he turns around to reveal that he's turning into a werewolf.
* SecondVerseCurse: The bridge does not appear at all in the music video, largely because there's no way to make the lyric fit with the plot.
* SignatureScene: The zombie dance, naturally.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Zombie Michael eerily foreshadows how Jackson relentlessly altered his facial features via plastic surgery throughout the rest of his life.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Zombie MemeticMutation: One of the great pre-internet ones, the video popularized the concept of dancing zombies in pop culture, and even today if zombies dance, odds are they're doing something at least highly reminicent of the Thriller Dance.
** And then in internet forums, a GIF image of Michaeleerily foreshadows how Jackson relentlessly altered his facial features via plastic surgery throughout eating popcorn in the rest theater is used a lot, as a way of his life.saying PassThePopcorn below in a thread.
** And then in internet forums, a GIF image of Michael
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* HarsherInHindsight: Zombie Michael eerily foreshadows how Jackson relentlessly altered his facial features via plastic surgery throughout the rest of his life.
* MST3KMantra: Spoken by Michael while chasing his girlfriend out of the theater.
-->'''Michael''': It's only a movie!
* MST3KMantra: Spoken by Michael while chasing his girlfriend out of the theater.
-->'''Michael''': It's only a movie!
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* HarsherInHindsight: Zombie Michael eerily foreshadows how Jackson relentlessly altered his facial features via plastic surgery throughout the rest of his life.
* MST3KMantra: Spoken by Michael while chasing his girlfriend out of the theater.
-->'''Michael''': It's only a movie!life.
* MST3KMantra: Spoken by Michael while chasing his girlfriend out of the theater.
-->'''Michael''': It's only a movie!
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* HarsherInHindsight: Michael being turned into a zombie could be a reminder of his slow deterioration prior to his death in 2009. Arguably, he looked better as a zombie in this video than he ended up looking in his final years.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Zombie Michael being turned into a zombie could be a reminder eerily foreshadows how Jackson relentlessly altered his facial features via plastic surgery throughout the rest of his slow deterioration prior to his death in 2009. Arguably, he looked better as a zombie in this video than he ended up looking in his final years.life.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Michael being turned into a zombie could be a reminder of his slow deterioration prior to his death in 2009. Arguably, he looked better as a zombie in this video than he ended up looking in his final years.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Michael being turned into a zombie could be a reminder of his slow deterioration prior to his death in 2009. Arguably, he looked better as a zombie in this video than he ended up looking in his final years.years.
* MST3KMantra: Spoken by Michael while chasing his girlfriend out of the theater.
-->'''Michael''': It's only a movie!
* MST3KMantra: Spoken by Michael while chasing his girlfriend out of the theater.
-->'''Michael''': It's only a movie!
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* HarsherInHindsight: Michael being turned into a zombie could be a reminder of his slow deterioration prior to his death in 2009. Arguably, he looked better as a zombie in this video than he ended up looking in his final years.
