Michael Jackson's Ghosts

Michael Jackson's Ghosts
Michael Jackson's Ghosts
	Promotional poster
Directed by	Stan Winston
Screenplay by	Stan Winston; Mick Garris
Story by	Michael Jackson; Stephen King; Mick Garris
Produced by	Michael Jackson; Stan Winston; David Nicksay
Starring	Michael Jackson
Cinematography	Russell Carpenter
Edited by	Marcus Manton
Music by	Michael Jackson (songs); Nicholas Pike (score)
Production; companies	MJJ Productions; Kingdom Entertainment
Distributed by	SMV Enterprises
Release date	October 25, 1996; May 8, 1997 (Cannes)
Running time	39 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$15 million ($29 million in 2023 dollars)

Michael Jackson's Ghosts is a 1996 short film starring Michael Jackson, directed by Stan Winston, and written by Stephen King and Mick Garris. It is based on a story by Garris, Jackson and King.

Ghosts tells the story of an eccentric man with supernatural powers being forced out of a small town by its judgmental mayor. Jackson plays five roles, and performs dance routines set to the songs "2 Bad", "Is It Scary" and "Ghosts", taken from his albums HIStory (1995) and Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997). The AV Club described Ghosts as an allegory for Jackson's life and pop culture status.

Ghosts was filmed and released in 1996 and released along with select prints of the horror film Thinner, and was first screened in the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] It was released as promo a year later internationally on LaserDisc, VHS and Video CD.

^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
^ "Stan Winston School of Character Arts". www.stanwinstonschool.com. Retrieved 2022-05-12.

[inflation-US-1] 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.

[2] "Stan Winston School of Character Arts". www.stanwinstonschool.com. Retrieved 2022-05-12.

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