![]() ![]() The families agree that they had fun and allow the Maestro to stay. Terrified, the mayor leaps through the window. After the performance, the Maestro agrees to leave and crumbles to dust, but returns as an enormous demon. He performs magic tricks and dance routines with a ghostly horde, then possesses the mayor, forcing him to dance. ![]() The Maestro challenges the mayor to a “scaring contest”: the first to become scared must leave. The children assure the parents the Maestro has done nothing wrong, but the mayor intends to banish him as a “freak”. The mayor of Normal Valley leads a mob to the mansion of the Maestro, who has been entertaining local children with magic tricks and ghost stories. Jackson performs dance routines set to the songs “2 Bad”, “Is It Scary” and “Ghosts”, taken from Jackson’s albums HIStory (1995) and Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997). Ghosts tells the story of an eccentric man with supernatural powers being forced out of a small town by its judgmental mayor. ![]() It was released as promo a year later internationally on LaserDisc, VHS and Video CD. It was first screened in the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. It was filmed and released in 1996 and released along with select prints of the film Thinner. It also featured on a Columbia Pictures Get On The Bus promo CD, as a potential Oscar nominee, for Best Original Song.Michael Jackson’s Ghosts is a 1996 short film starring Michael Jackson, written by Stephen King and Mick Garris, and directed by Stan Winston. The full-length version was inlcuded on Michael's The Ultimate Collection box-set, issued in November 2004. The box-set also included Michael's Ghosts mini-movie on home video and his Blood On The Dance Floor album on CD. It is the lead track of a 3-track 'minimax' CD single, released as part of the 'Deluxe Collector Box Set' of Ghosts in December 1997 in the UK (no USA release). Written by Babyface, and originally recorded by Michael for the Spike Lee movie, Get On The Bus, but not featured on the soundtrack album. ![]()
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