Director: Garth Jennings
A theater troupe's big number turns into chaos in Sing: Thriller, an eleven-minute animated short from 2024 built entirely around Michael Jackson's most famous song.
What is Sing: Thriller about?
Buster Moon's crew of performers is staging a tribute to Thriller when a batch of glowing green ooze spills backstage during the show, and the partygoers who touch it start shuffling, groaning, and dancing like the undead. What begins as a rehearsal mishap spirals into a full zombie-dance takeover of the theater, with the cast improvising choreography to survive the chaos while somehow keeping the performance going. Told almost entirely through music and movement rather than dialogue, the short leans on the same ensemble energy that powers the Sing feature films, giving familiar characters a chance to cut loose in a horror-comedy costume for one tightly packed sequence. It plays as a stand-alone bonus rather than a chapter of a larger plot, built for a quick burst of music-driven spectacle.
Cast & crew
Matthew McConaughey returns as koala impresario Buster Moon, joined by Tori Kelly, Scarlett Johansson, Taron Egerton, and Nick Kroll voicing the familiar Sing ensemble. Director Garth Jennings also lends his voice to the cast.
Context & significance
Sing: Thriller is a short spin-off tied to the Sing animated franchise from Illumination, directed by Garth Jennings, who also directed both Sing feature films. Released in 2024 and built around Michael Jackson's 1982 hit, the short trades the series' usual singing-competition format for a self-contained horror-tinged set piece running just eleven minutes. It functions as a companion piece for fans who enjoyed the two full-length Sing movies and want another quick round with the same voice cast, rather than a chapter that expands the franchise's ongoing story.
Where & how to watch
Sing: Thriller streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing available; no Persian subtitle track is offered for this short. Anyone can read the film's page without an account, and watching it only requires a free K-Time login, on a platform built with the Iranian diaspora's Farsi-language viewing habits in mind.