2011 · animation · music · horror
Thriller Night
Directed by Gary Trousdale, Sean Bishop6m2011
A Shrek parody of Michael Jackson's Thriller song and music video, with Donkey singing.
Our read: Thriller Night (2011) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · music · horror entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle animation / music, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
Watching Thriller Night tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Thriller Night feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a quick silly Shrek parody of the Thriller music video.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if you hate Shrek shorts or musical parodies.
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Discussion
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