MICHAEL JACKSON. GHOSTS (Full Widescreen HQ Version) part 4/4

The movie was released at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 and released on VHS video in 1997. Songs featured in the film were "2 Bad" which was from Michael Jackson's HIStory album and Ghosts and Is It Scary which were both taken from Blood On The Dance Floor, which was a History in the Mix album with some new tacks.

Ghosts is a short film starring Michael Jackson and directed by film director and special effects guru Stan Winston which could also be classified as a long-form music video. It was filmed and first screened in 1996 and released along with select prints of the film Stephen King's THINNER. It was released a year later internationally on VHS.
The film tells the story of a scary Maestro with supernatural powers, who is being forced out of a small town by its mayor. The movie includes a series of dance routines performed by Michael Jackson and his "family" of ghouls. Every song from the film was taken from Michael Jackson's HIStory and Blood on the Dance Floor albums. The film is also notable for an early film appearance of rapper Mos Def.
The Maestro (Jackson) lives alone on top of a hill, overlooking the town of "Normal Valley". Occasionally, he entertains the local children with scary magic tricks.
On a stormy night A GROUP goes to the Maestro's mansion.
The front gate opens, frightening the townspeople, who make their way to the front door, which also opens by itself. The inside of the mansion appears to them even creepier than the outside, and the parents re-assure their children (and themselves) "there's no such thing as ghosts". They make their way into the house, and once they are all inside, the front door slams shut and locks itself.
Two more large doors swing open revealing a large, darkened dance hall. Hesitantly, the townspeople make their way to the dance hall, where they are greeted by The Maestro who makes a scary yet comical entrance. The Mayor angrily confronts him, calling the Maestro "strange", "weird", and a "freak", and telling him that he's not welcome in their town. The Maestro defends himself, and in response the Mayor threatens "Are you going to leave, or am I going to have to hurt you?" (The townspeople appear not to be as forceful in their position, but don't offer an objection).
To this the Maestro replies, "You're trying to scare me, aren't you?...I guess I have no choice; I have to try and scare you." He then makes a series of funny faces, which the Mayor calls "ridiculous" and "not funny". In a change of tone, the Maestro asks, "Is this scary?" and pulls his face sideways before pulling his face down and stretches his mouth. Then he continues to stretch his face more, ultimately pulls off his face to reveal his skull and laughing maniacally. The frightened townspeople run for the doors, which the Maestro shuts with his magical powers, then smashes his skull with his fists, revealing his normal head.
The Maestro then introduces his "family" of ghouls who, along with the Maestro, perform an extended dance routine (to original music composed by Jackson) which alternately impresses and scares the townspeople. During this sequence, the Maestro's acts include ripping his clothes off to reveal a skeletal body; possessing the Mayor and making him dance; and transforming the Mayor into an ugly, horrific demon while remarking, "Who's the freak now?" ," Freaky Boy, Freak circus freak".
After his performance ends, the Maestro asks, "Do you still want me to go?". While the townspeople respond "no", the mayor vehemently says "Yes!". The Maestro quietly agrees by saying, "Fine...I'll go." He falls, and after smashing his hands and face into the floor his face and body violently start to crumble into dust on the floor, which is then blown away by the wind. The townspeople are saddened by this, and somewhat sorry to see him go. The Mayor however thinks he has come out victorious and heads for the doors saying "I Showed him". When he opens them he finds a monstrous-looking Maestro-demon head which says "HELLO" and terrifies him, and he runs away scared (leaving a comically Mayor-shaped hole in the glass door).
The townspeople then turn back to the now open front doors to see the Maestro standing there, laughing. They realize he isn't so bad after all and make peace with him. The story ends with one of the children asking with a vicious look on his face, "Is this scary?"; he grips his lower face, and the camera moves to a long shot of the mansion while terrified screams are heard.
During the credits it is revealed through backstage footage that Jackson not only played the Maestro but also the dancing Mayor and several monsters within the film, thus explaining the Mayor's dancing towards the end.

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[MultiMcKenzie09]

@horselover41598 i know right (ikr)

[anival2sorto]

@caramellbooty No shit sherlock holmes

[horselover41598]

Lol this is awsome at the end the mayor sound like Michael when he was saying let's go but I never thought that Michael would wear a fat suit and I don't like the way this made him seem bossy he was like HELLO!? And it was funny when at the end he jumped when he turned around and saw the boy lol XD

[StephanieeMxo]

@schoolgyrl6 Michael played himself, the ghoul version of himself, and he played the mayor, it's michael in a fatsuit xD, and the skeleton :)

[schoolgyrl6]

i cant see the credits at the end, michael played 4 characters? Who?

[albrimi2009]

pfffffffffffff

[KMichaelOJacksonP]

of course or no one can dance like Michael

[caramellbooty]

wow this fake

[lovemj89]

DUH