Halloween thought to bring back memories. As Halloween nears most may want a little scare or a memory of old frights. I’ll go with my favorite scare actor of all time: Vincent Price. I remember drive-ins with his classics on the huge screen including Doctor Phibes. Today I wish everyone a happy Halloween and offer some lyrics from Michael Jackson’s classic Thriller. I can see the video in my mind, and I can hear Price’s classic Rap and terrifying laughing at the end.
“It’s close to midnight and something evil lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes,
You’re paralyzed
cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no ones gonna save you from the beast about strike
You know its thriller, thriller night
You’re fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight
You hear the door slam and realize there’s nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you’ll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination
But all the while you hear the creature creep’in up behind
You’re out of time
cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain’t no second chance against the thing with forty eyes
You know its thriller, thriller night
You’re fighting for your life inside of killer, thriller tonight
Night creatures call
And the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There’s no escap’in the jaws of the alien this time
(they’re open wide)
This is the end of your life
They’re out to get you, there’s demons closing in on every side
They will possess you unless you change the number on your dial
Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together
All thru the night I’ll save you from the terror on the screen,
I’ll make you see
That this is thriller, thriller night
cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would dare to try
Girl, this is thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, chiller,
Thriller here tonight
(rap performed by Vincent Price)
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize yawls neighborhood
And whoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse’s shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller”
Can you see the video? Can you hear the words and music? I can—Happy Halloween.
