Michael Jackson’s legendary 'Thriller' video has been restored in 3D by original director John Landis and will be premiered at the Venice Film Festival this month.

The 1983 promo, featuring Jackson transformed into a werewolf and a zombie and the only music video ever to be inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, has been restored to “take advantage of 3D in a way that’s very effective”. We can only assume the finished result will be like a disco pop version of The Ring.

"All of the copies of Thriller out there now are duped and it used to drive me crazy," Landis told Billboard."I’d been trying to get to the negative for a long time as the new digital technologies are amazing at restoring films. And Michael and I always intended for people to see Thriller in a movie theater.

“But we didn’t just restore Thriller. We enhanced it … like in that scene in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and the others are being buffed and polished inside Emerald City.”