Michael Jackson changed music videos forever with the 1983 release of Thriller.
With a big-name movie director at the helm and clocking in at 14 minutes, it aspired to Hollywood production values and forever raised the bar.
Although Thriller wasn't a pastiche as such, it borrowed heavily from Landis' horror-comedy An American Werewolf In London, and led to all manner of videos inspired by movies like Madonna's Material Girl.
Lady Gaga's Telephone video features a direct homage to Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, in the shape of the actual Pussy Wagon from the movie.
For Kanye West's Daft Punk-sampling hit Stronger, he turned to Japanese anime for inspiration, recreating almost shot-for-shot several scenes from the 1988 post-nuclear thriller Akira.
Madonna will forever be known as 'the Material Girl' thanks to that song's iconic video which saw Madge don a pink dress, gloves and jewels in a knowing parody of Marilyn Monroe's Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend routine from the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
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