first off and i refuse to even consider this piece of work a music video . i consider it a short film that use excerpt of the song thriller in it soundtrack . to me a music video must be no long than the song itself and and the song must play the entire length of the video . call this a music video be like call the great gatsby a poem . on top of this . let face it . thriller be a boring 14 minute and include the extremely dated werewolf transformation and the mindless vincent price poem ( just because vp recite it doesn not mean it not lame ) and and the least threatening zombie i have ever see . sure and this be certainly a cultural phenomenon and but do not forget and this also happen at the same time the a team be the # 1 show on tv and so let not give the culture too much credit on that one . one last point on this film impact on the medium on music video . what exactly do this add to the equation that billie jean and beat it do not already add . from what i can tell and it only add the practice of stop the song for some dialog and or a superfluous dance scene . so you could say that all this video really do be give puffy the inspiration to make more annoying music video . not quite my definition of great .