Michael Jackson’s THRILLER Without Music is Weirdly Watchable

People can make all the noise they want about Taylor Swift’s new video, we’ll let you finish, but the crown for greatest music video of all time will always belong to Michael Jackson’s 1984 opus “Thriller”. Sorry, literally everyone else who ever made or will make a music video. MJ’s legendary video and homage to horror movies is still the gold standard. It even works without the music.

A YouTuber by the name of Red Rhythm very carefully removed all of the instrumentals, as well as Vincent Price’s narration from the video, which leaves behind only sound effects and Michael Jackson’s voice. The results are pretty fascinating. The whole front half of the video plays like a decent horror movie. Then the dancing begins, and, well….then things get kind of silly. But silly in a totally fascinating, watchable way. You can check it out below:

The original video was a collaboration between Jackson, An American Werewolf in London director John Landis, legendary makeup effects artist Rick Baker, and horror movie icon Vincent Price. Over the years, its come to represent Halloween time, as synonymous with the holiday as “The Monster Mash.” In fact, it so represents both horror films and the ’80s that Netflix reportedly payed millions to use the song for the Stranger Things season two trailer, and most would say the is what made that trailer so amazing.

What do you think of this music-less version of the classic video? Be sure to let us know down below in the comments.

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