The music video for "Leave Me Alone" was directed by Jim Blashfield and produced by Jim Blashfield, Paul Diener, Michael Jackson, and Frank DiLeo. It was filmed in January 1988 in Culver City, California and was released on January 2, 1989. The video also appeared in the 1988 film "Moonwalker". In essence, the video is an amusement park consisting of stylistically crude images based around Jackson's successful career since 1982's "Thriller". There is an emphasis on the tabloid view of Jackson's personal life and public image, referring to the nickname "Wacko Jacko" given to him by the press, and the various headlines associated with him in the 1980s. Lampooning rumours that he tried to purchase Joseph Merrick's bones, Jackson dances with stop motion "Elephant Man" bones in the video.