"Threatened" brings us back to the Horrifying days of "Thriller". Played a gazillion times during the month of October. Halloween is what he'll always be remembered for. When everyone danced like zombies.
Come 1982, Jackson revived a deep-seated yearning for more horror-flicks among us. For the next couple of years, many scary movies hit the big screens. Even a 1987 remake of "Night of the Living Dead" showed a scene of a raggedy Michael Jackson in a Thriller red vest!
Michael gives a high-tempo Pleasure Island spooktacular. But this time on a more Techno/Pop crunch-Geared for the nightclubs. Snippets of Rod Sterling are heard from the tunes intro, climax, and outro. Creating the illusion of a Twilight Zone episode.
Besides contributing a fresh Halloween beat, I have a feeling it's a bit personal too. Many gain-sayers who thought Michael was nothing but a freak and a has been, he wanted to prove dead wrong. Notice the ab hominom come the outro. Your nightmares have just begone! Hopefully come late this year(or next year), he'll say it again with glee.
"What you just witnessed could be the end of a particularly terrifying nightmare. It isn't. It's the beginning......."-Rod Sterling
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