Featuring interviews with director John Landis, make-up artist Rick Baker, and the King of Pop himself, Making Michael Jackson's Thriller takes you on a behind-the-scenes journey from pre-production to shooting on the ghoulish graveyard set of Michael Jackson's legendary music video and short film.
Practical Effects
Rick Baker's werewolf transformation is grotesque magic.
Direction
John Landis treating a music video like a feature film.
Production
The graveyard set that cost more than most indie movies.
Director
Jerry Kramer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Thriller transformed music videos from promotional afterthoughts to legitimate art form, forcing MTV to finally play Black artists regularly.
The documentary's existence is meta-weird: a making-of for a music video that itself became a cultural phenomenon bigger than most films.
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