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Wacko Jacko's Thriller Goes Theatrical

post #1 of 18
1/27/09 at 1:04am
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http://chud.com/articles/articles/17...CAL/Page1.html
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post #2 of 18
1/27/09 at 1:20am
I assume 'theatrical' here means on-screen, but this would be really awesome to see as a stage-show I think.
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post #3 of 18
1/27/09 at 1:34am
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The plot will be the same as the video, such as it is, where a couple on a date is attacked by zombies.
You're selling the plot a bit short, Alex. Jacko plays both a zombie and a werewolf(werecat?) in Thriller. Think about that. A zombie/werewolf. A singing and dancing zombie/werewolf.
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post #4 of 18
1/27/09 at 2:02am
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Oh excuse me for selling the deep and layered Thriller plot short. haha. Is it a werecat? I always thought it was a werewolf. Besides, that was just a movie inside a dream. OR WAS IT?

Also, didn't realize it was online on Youtube as well- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8

I miss Vincent Price somedays.
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post #5 of 18
1/27/09 at 2:08am
That's the other thing. It opens with a movie within a movie where the people watching the film are also starring in it yet neither of them comment on this. Are they in fact the actors from the film on a date to see their own movie? But then it inexplicably ends with one of them waking up to it all having been a dream but Michael is in fact the werecat(?) from the film. And there are dancing zombies! It's a mind bender, Alex. A mind bender.
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post #6 of 18
1/27/09 at 2:20am
And just to continue the mindbender, they're making a horror movie based on a video that was an homage to horror movies. See, it's right in keeping with whole thing.

Although I have to admit that a horror musical can be a great thing.
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post #7 of 18
1/27/09 at 3:13am
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Although I have to admit that a horror musical can be a great thing.
If you see Repo! The Genetic Opera, you will eat those words like shards of broken glass.
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post #8 of 18
1/27/09 at 4:21am
If done right this could actually be awesome.
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post #9 of 18
1/27/09 at 4:45am
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That's the other thing. It opens with a movie within a movie where the people watching the film are also starring in it yet neither of them comment on this. Are they in fact the actors from the film on a date to see their own movie? But then it inexplicably ends with one of them waking up to it all having been a dream but Michael is in fact the werecat(?) from the film. And there are dancing zombies! It's a mind bender, Alex. A mind bender.
Michael and Ola Ray (his girlfriend) are "projecting" themselves into the movie they are watching. Ola's fears of her loving, sensitive chocolate dream of a boyfriend (Michael) are made manifest by the onscreen depiction of him becoming a rabid werecat (horny) and killing (penetrating) her.

On the walk home, Michael serenades Ola Ray with veiled warnings about the sexual threat he poses. Then they are attacked by zombies, and I'm not sure what the meaning is. But anyway, Ola Ray wakes up, and it has all been a dream! Michael is still the soothing, clean-cut charmer, not the sex-crazed monster she had perceived him as. Michael offers to "take her home", but then reveals his cat eyes - his sexually predatory nature - to the viewer. A chilling final twist.

I also refer you to the controversial "panther" version of Black or White, in which Michael morphs into a panther, trashes cars and other property in a misty backstreet, and strokes his penis.
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post #10 of 18
1/27/09 at 4:53am
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Michael and Ola Ray (his girlfriend) are "projecting" themselves into the movie they are watching. Ola's fears of her loving, sensitive chocolate dream of a boyfriend (Michael) are made manifest by the onscreen depiction of him becoming a rabid werecat (horny) and killing (penetrating) her.

On the walk home, Michael serenades Ola Ray with veiled warnings about the sexual threat he poses. Then they are attacked by zombies, and I'm not sure what the meaning is. But anyway, Ola Ray wakes up, and it has all been a dream! Michael is still the soothing, clean-cut charmer, not the sex-crazed monster she had perceived him as. Michael offers to "take her home", but then reveals his cat eyes - his sexually predatory nature - to the viewer. A chilling final twist.

I also refer you to the controversial "panther" version of Black or White, in which Michael morphs into a panther, trashes cars and other property in a misty backstreet, and strokes his penis.
Okay, so what does P.Y.T. mean?....
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post #11 of 18
1/27/09 at 4:59am
That song is about MJ wanting to take a girl "to the max."
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post #12 of 18
1/27/09 at 5:01am
I always like to imagine he's talking about the restaurant from saved by the bell.
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post #13 of 18
1/27/09 at 5:34am
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If you see Repo! The Genetic Opera, you will eat those words like shards of broken glass.
Ah but I see your Repo! and return serve with a Little Shop Of Horrors.
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post #14 of 18
1/27/09 at 8:42am
You know? I was going to post how this was - bar none - the stupidest idea I had ever heard for a movie, and leave it at that.

But, reading through your comments, I began to see how - in the right hands - this could actually be something interesting.

In the right hands.

With the right talent behind and in front of the camera.

But, somehow, I don't think that's going to happen. I'm expecting a big fat turd to come of this.

By the way: Horror Musicals? Rain Dog, don't stop there. Sure, Little Shop is great. We also have Rocky Horror Picture Show (look at it beyond its obnoxious fad status), DePalma with Phantom of the Paradise... And, just recently, we had Sweeney Todd.

Hell... I'll even throw down some love for Cannibal: The Musical. So, how about that?

It's true that all those movies function more as comedies that horror films. But, what do you expect? They're fucking MUSICALS.

The day someone is able to make a musical horror film that actually functions as horrific (hard to do with a singing and dancing and prancing "villain") story that genuinely is meant to scare you, and does so is the day my mind is blown apart.
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post #15 of 18
1/27/09 at 1:09pm
I'm just waiting for the hardcore Thriller fan to find something, anything, wrong with the final musical, and start screaming how it wasn't at all like how Landis and Jackson did it the first time. Or that zombie #4 on the right should have been more in step, and it took the viewer out of the movie. Or that MJ was a wereCAT and not an actual wereWOLF, and why did they use CGI for the transformation?
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post #16 of 18
1/27/09 at 2:46pm
I couldn't care less about this. I'm just glad that I'm finally catching up on 30 Rock and I can finally get the references.
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post #17 of 18
1/27/09 at 3:04pm
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The day someone is able to make a musical horror film that actually functions as horrific (hard to do with a singing and dancing and prancing "villain") story that genuinely is meant to scare you, and does so is the day my mind is blown apart.
You know, I enjoyed Burton's Sweeney Todd well enough, but seeing that show onstage was pretty unsettling, and there were parts that clearly scared the crap out of a lot of the audience.

I don't know if that could have translated to film, though (the filmed version of the stage production doesn't really capture it), but it would have taken a different director to do it.
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post #18 of 18
1/28/09 at 2:23pm
Landis demands satisfaction!
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