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Michael Jackson's Thriller (2008)
★ 8.3 · 747 ratings on TMDB
A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies. Released at the height of Thriller’s success, the short film redefined the music video, broke racial barriers, and became the first inducted into the U.S. National Film Registry.
DirectorJohn Landis
The emergence reading
Michael Jackson's Thriller keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, music, horror, transformation, dance.
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Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
