A friend of mine was telling me last night that he saw on some show like Celebrity Justice Files that they’d found a video that Wacko Jacko had made which was called Ghosts or similar. Anyway, the estimated cost to produce this 38 minute video was $10 million. The story line is evidently pretty bizarre. MJ plays two roles in it, in one of them he’s the owner of a castle who imprisons a bunch of children, in the other role, he’s a big fat white supremacist bent on destroying the other MJ character. Interestingly enough, this was not touted as a documentary. 
So, anybody know anything about this? (Is it available on the net?)
Ten seconds’ research on IMDB, and here you go. Looks like a half-hour long music video, kind of along the lines of “Thriller,” but only released overseas.
I don’t feel an overwhelming desire to see it, myself.
I saw it on TV not too long ago. (Much Music was having a Michael Jackson day or something.) It was very strange. The villain guy wasn’t a white supremicist, that I noticed. (Though he WAS white.) He was more of a moralist who considered MJ a ‘freak’ who was corrupting the children.
When Mr Moralizer and the Concerned Parents of the town visit MJ’s spooky manse - complete with cobwebs - he summons up a bunch of ghosts, who dance for the assembled - impressing the kids and scaring the adults. This dance sequence takes up better than half the movie, IIRC. Then he goes all spooky himself, Mr Moralizer gets possessed and dances, confesses to horrible crimes (actually, I can’t remember what he said while possessed, I’d stopped paying much attention part way through the extended dance sequence), MJ wins over the parents, and everybody is happy.
Gee…one wonders what inspired that.
And fisher queen posts while I’m writing it up. Heh.
What I saw was probably the Canadian premier (and final bow).
I saw that. It was visionary in stlye. I came across it just as the extended ghosty dance started, and like Tengu, lost interest toward the end when “Mr. Moralizer” (MJ in prosthetics who looked like a slightly younger, paunchy Jerry Springer) started to dance.
The make-up and effects were really impressive, but it just dragged. Like, yeah okay, dancing ghosties, I get it, I get it.
A friend of mine, Pat Dade, was in that. I don’t think it’s ever seen the light of day, though.