Music Video
As part promotion for "Speed Demon", Jackson filmed a promotional video for the song, which appears in Jackson's 1988 film Moonwalker. The video was directed by Will Vinton. In the video, Jackson, in an attempt to avoid overzealous fans (even The Noid), disguises himself as a rabbit named Spike, but ends up taunting the fans into chasing him. During the chase, he morphs into other celebrities, including Sylvester Stallone, Tina Turner and Pee-Wee Herman. After finally losing the fans, he removes the costume, which comes to life and challenges him to a dance-off.
In the end, Clancy Brown tells Michael Jackson he is in a "No Moonwalking Zone", and Jackson turns to point to Spike, and the rabbit has already left. The policeman then sarcastically asks for his autograph (as opposed to "signature") on the ticket. Just as Jackson is preparing to leave, the rocky crag in front of him morphs into Spike's head, who then nods to him, leaving Jackson one-upped by his own alter-ego. Nonetheless, he seems happy enough as he leaves. Dennis Hunt of The Los Angeles Times commented that the clips for "Bad" (which was featured in the film as "Badder", with children recreating the original clip), "Speed Demon" and "Leave Me Alone" are "slick, well-crafted and expensive-looking," but "they're still just music videos" and felt that the videos were not "even strung together in any particularly imaginative fashion."
In 2010, the long version of the music video was released on the box set Michael Jackson's Vision and again, in 2012, in the Target exclusive version DVD of Bad 25, along with eight other music videos, from the Bad era.
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