Produced by Iconoclast
Executive Producer — Horace de Gunzbourg
Line Producer — Justine Sautrey
UK Producer — Alex Chamberlain
Production Manager — Tom O’Driscoll
Production Manager — Laura Thomas-Smith
1st AD — George Nelson
Rep — Hands London
Commissionner — Katie Dolan
Production Designer — Sarah Jenneson
Stylist Dua Lipa — Lorenzo Posocco
Stylist Angele — Samantha Gill
Costume Designer — Ameena Kara Callender
Make Up Dua Lipa — Nikki Wolff
Make Up Angele — Ophélie Secq
Hair — Anna Cofone
Choreographer — Charm La’Donna
Choreographer Assistant — Alex Clark
Casting — Road Casting
Casting — Hammond Cox
Locations — James Litchfield @ Charles Somers Locations
Post production — Poster
Editor — Roxane Faure
Colourist — Jason Wallis @ ETC
Post producer — David Lezaun
Special thanks to Tom Knight, Kate Sharp and Malachy McAnenny
Taken from the digital edition of Dua Lipas second studio album Future Nostalgia released in 2020, which featured the hit singles Dont Start Now, Physical, Break My Heart, Hallucinate
Michael Jacksons 14-minute short film «Thriller» revolutionized the music video genre forever. Hailed as the greatest music video of all time by MTV, VH1, Rolling Stone and others, «Thriller,» directed by John Landis, is also the only music video selected to be included in the Library of Congress prestigious National Film Registry.
Written by Rod Temperton
Produced by Quincy Jones for Quincy Jones Productions
From the album Thriller, released November 30, 1982
Released as a single January 23, 1984
THE SHORT FILM
Director: John Landis
Primary Production Location: Los Angeles, California
Michael Jacksons short film for «Thriller» was the third of three short films produced for recordings from Thriller, which continues its reign as the biggest selling album of all time with worldwide sales in excess of 105 million as of June 1, 2016 and in December 2015 became the first ever album to be awarded triple diamond status (i.e.: sales in excess of 30 million) by the RIAA for US sales alone. The «Thriller» single reached No. 1 in four countries in 1984, topping the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart as well as charts in Spain, France and Belgium. The song peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, making Thriller the first album to feature seven Top 10 singles. The Recording Industry Association of America certified «Thriller» Gold and Platinum on December 4, 1989.
The groundbreaking short films for the Thriller album, starting with «Billie Jean,» following up with «Beat It» and culminating with the epic, nearly 14-minute «Thriller,» truly expanded the possibilities of «music video» as art form. «I wanted something that would glue you to the set, something youd want to watch over and over,» Michael wrote in his 1988 memoir Moonwalk. «I wanted to be a pioneer in this relatively new medium and make the best short music movies we could make.»
In the short films extended prologue, Michaels moonlit date with his girlfriend (played by model Ola Ray) is interrupted by his sudden transformation into a howling werewolf. While the «real» Michael and Ola, observing the scene in a movie theater, walk home from the their date, Michael teases her by singing the verses of «Thriller.»
Lyrics:
Its close to midnight
Something evils lurking from the dark
Under the moonlight
You see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze
As horror looks you right between your eyes
Youre paralyzed
Cause this is thriller
Thriller night
And no ones gonna save you
From the beast about to strike
You know its thriller
Thriller night
Youre fighting for your life
Inside a killer thriller tonight, yeah
songs that will bring you back to summer 15 — 18
SUMMER NOSTALGIA
Time stamps:
00:00 — Are you with me
01:31 — Adele Hello
03:23 — Alan Walker [DARK-SIDE]
04:18 — Axwell /\ Ingrosso [More than you know]
05:44 — Bebe Rexha [im a mess]
06:53 — Cardi B [i like it]
08:06 — Clean Bandit — Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)
09:20 — DNCE — Cake By The Ocean
10:35 — Dua Lipa — New Rules
11:50 — Sia — Elastic Heart feat. Shia LaBeouf