Michael Jackson and the Addams Family

The King of Pop wanted to make a scary music video. The idea came out of a promotional deal Michael had struck with Paramount Pictures, where plans were underway for a sequel to the Addams Family movie. In it, he would play the man in the mansion who has to defend himself when a mob marches up to his door and accuses him of scaring their children. He said, people who think strange is bad are expressing a kind of herd mentality, mob mentality.