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Listen to Vintage Audio from Vincent Price’s “Thriller” Voiceover Session
“Darkness falls across the land. The midnight hour is close at hand.”
Story goes that Michael Jackson was so impressed by An American Werewolf in London that he personally requested John Landis direct the music video for his song “Thriller” – the rest, as they say, is history. The 13-minute masterpiece, which plays out like a short horror film, was a collaboration between a handful of horror icons, including Rick Baker and Vincent Price.
Price, with his instantly recognizable voice, recorded pitch-perfect narration for the video’s sequence of the dead rising from their graves – Quincy Jones, who produced the video, once said that Price completed the task in only two takes, which impressed the hell out of him. Wouldn’t it be fun to be a fly on the wall of that historic recording session? Over 30 years later, now you can!
Audio from that voiceover session has been around for quite a while now, but I must admit that I had never heard it until it was shared over on Reddit this past weekend – and I figured that if I hadn’t heard it, I probably wasn’t the only one. From what I understand, the audio was originally included as a bonus feature on a 25th anniversary re-release of “Thriller” back in ’08.
If you’ve never heard it, or even if you have, listen to the audio magic below!
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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