Thriller

"The foulest stench is in the air, the funk of forty thousand years. And grizzly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom. And though you fight to stay alive, your body starts to shiver for no mere mortal can resist the evil of the thriller"

- Vincent Price The Thriller is the (presumably) unseen main antagonist of the Michael Jackson song and music video of the same name. It is described as a monster of unimaginable horror that appears on "thriller night", which is most likely Halloween.

The song is sung by Michael Jackson's character of the same name, narrating possible events that may (or will) occur to his frightened date.

Plot
The music video begins with a scene of Michael Jackson proposing to his girlfriend before abruptly turning into a werecat and attacking her. However, this is revealed to be a horror movie called Thriller that Michael's character and his actual date are watching in the theater. Scared, his date leaves, and he follows.

In the song, Jackson teases his date on the way home by singing about a monster with the name of the movie. He says that it appears around midnight, and that its appearance alone can make the victim freeze in sheer terror, including being unable to scream. Even if the victim manages to escape the paralysis, the Thriller will chase him/her indoors or to a secluded location and close the door, trapping him/her inside with it. It will then approach and attack.

He "warns" her that the monster and its undead minions will come and get her, possessing her. He then claims that that he will protect her should it be needed.

The couple is soon surrounded by zombies. Jackson turns into a zombie himself and leads them all in a dance number, distracting them so his date can run away into a nearby house. Michael and the zombies attack and corner her, but she soon finds that it was all a dream and that Michael simply took her to his house. He then offers to take her home. She immediately forgets about her dream and goes with him.

During the last few moments, Michael turns to face the audience with the same yellow eyes that his werewolf form had, revealing that he may be the Thriller or be possessed by it, and that the zombie and werecat hallucinations could have been his doing. However, his true connection is unknown.