Thriller (Michael Jackson album) Thriller (Michael Jackson album) Thriller is the sixth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released on November 30, 1982, in the United States by Epic Records and internationally by CBS Records. It explores genres similar to Jackson's previous album, "Off the Wall," including pop, post-disco, rock and funk. Recording sessions took place from April to November 1982 at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, with a production budget of $750,000. In just over a year, "Thriller" became the world's best-selling album, having sold an estimated 66 million copies. It is the second-best-selling album in the United States and was
Social thriller thriller. It might be called a social thriller—a creepy, tightly knit suspense film that, on the fly, reveals more about the lives of immigrants in London than the most scrupulously earnest documentary." Other films labeled as social thrillers from the first decade-and-a-half of the new millennium include 2005's British production of "The Constant Gardener" and the 2008 Italian film "As God Commands", both based on the best-selling novels of the same names. The "Wall Street Journal" called 2011's "The Social Network" "Part morality play, part social thriller," the 2012 Canadian child abduction film "The Tall Man" got called a social