The 11th Annual Thriller Halloween Flash Mob will take place at Jackson Square on Monday, October 31, at 12 p.m.

To celebrate the undisputed King of Pop, Flash Mob New Orleans will present the 11th Annual Thriller Halloween Flash Mob in Jackson Square on Halloween, Monday, October 31, at 12 p.m.

“A flashmob is a random spontaneous combustion of energy in any way shape form at any random time in any given space,” explains FLASHMOB NEW ORLEANS Founder/DIrector, local techno music singer, dancer and actor Kenneth “Kynt” Bryan, the first person to ever bring the art of the flashmob into the academic realm  via his workshops at Loyola University.

With a budget of $500,000—nearly $1.4 million today—“Thriller” was the most expensive productions of its kind. Michael Jackson recruited John Landis, the director of An American Werewolf in London, with the result creating a cultural moment that would earn the video an induction into the Library of Congress and would spark reenactments from inmates in the Philippines to nearly 13,000 dancers in the streets of Mexico City.

New Orleanians are encouraged to join the movement that Kenneth “Kynt” Bryan, founder of Flash Mob New Orleans, defined in an interview with NewsOrleans.me as “a random spontaneous combustion of energy in any way shape form at any random time in any given space.”