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Michael Jackson as The Littlest Hobo
Thriller (1983)
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Not even American Werewolf director John Landis could make a decent lycan out of plastic popster. At the start of the groundbreaking Thriller video, Jackson does a very different kind of moonwalk. “I’m not like other boys,” he tells a girl rather needlessly. What he actually means is that he’s a werewolf, and he proves by transforming in front of her. Spookily, in mid-transformation he has a death mask look not a little unlike his multiple-further-face-lifts self of later life, only blacker. His full werewolf appearance doesn’t look so bad in still pictures, though the Bride Of Frankenstein white streaks in his hair and huge, pointy elfin ears are a tad camp. And he does look more feline than lupine from some angles. The real problem, though, is the poncy way he moves – bouncing and prancing around like Lionel Blair in a gorilla mask. Jacko’s attempts at howling in the Making Of video are hilarious too.
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