VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

SnoopyStyle It's the town of Normal Valley. The Mayor (Micahel Jackson) is a fat white guy. He leads a mob to confront the Maestro (Michael Jackson) who lives in his mansion Someplace Else. Maestro entertains the local children in his scary mansion. Maestro asks the mob, "Is this scary?" and performs revealing scary faces.This is a 40 minute music video short. Special effects master Stan Winston directs. This is worthwhile for Jackson fans. For Winston fans, this is a weird side project. It's badly directed but he has some fun with the ghouls. The writing is awful and the story is nothing good. For some reason, the Mayor leads an angry mob and he brings the little kids. The story is very static with the mob mostly standing around gawking at Michael Jackson and his ghouls. The songs are not terribly catchy but the man does do his dancing.

Tom May From the three Michael Jackson related 'films' I have watched today (the others being "Thriller" and "Captain EO"), this contains the man's best acting and dancing.The concept is simple, but in a good way; children and adults find themselves in a ghostly, haunted manor house upon a dark evening. Their cynical Mayor takes against the house's proprietor, the Maestro (Michael Jackson). The Maestro summons up a horde of ghosts, in an attempt to both scare and entertain the assembled people. Predictably enough, the children love it and the Mayor hates it, berating the Maestro as a 'freak', who would be better off in the circus.There is some sense of Jackson playing on themes from "The Elephant Man", one of his favourite films - playing an outsider, hated by many in adult society. Magic and oddity are seen to win out, with the Mayor confounded at every turn and indeed inhabited by MJ's spirit at one point and even doing the Moonwalk in a memorably amusing sequence. The ghosts work well in tandem and individually - we are treated to Elizabethan ruff wearers, arch Gothic ladies and a rather sinister zombie-jester.The music contains some of the better 1990s Michael Jackson numbers: 'Is It Scary' and '2 Bad' are not classics but are well used; 'Ghosts' is a cracking song given its perfect visual accompaniment here. Some of the ghosts' dance routines are superbly realised, and it is notable just how at home Jackson is with these spectral figures around him. Compare with his uncomfortable attempt at R&B normality in the 'You Rock My World' video, where he achieved no chemistry whatsoever with the lady he is supposed to be romancing."Ghosts" truly shows a Michael Jackson in his element, a weird man in weird surroundings, putting on an unusually entertaining horror show.

crazyinfatuation This is a wonderful short film, with stunning visual effects. You can't deny the effects, make up and dancing in this film weren't top notch. The acting was a bit rusty but it wasn't awful, and to be honest, with everything else going on, it didn't matter.When people say this is similar to Thriller, they're thinking one-dimensionally. Yes, Michael Jackson did Thriller...a short film with zombies in. But so? Does everyone who has done more than one action film, more than one love song, more than one something something mean they're unoriginal, copying themselves or whatever? No. This is nothing like Thriller, apart from the fact its make believe and maybe scary for little kids.I also think this is a sort of stab at all the people who say Michaels face is destroyed and what not...with the scene where he takes his face off and smashes it into the ground...as if to say 'yeh look at me and my good looking face that you all so willingly diss, f/ers'. Haha, maybe I'm wrong but thats my perception. Michael takes risks, and because he does he can produce a fantastic short film. He'll always be the king of videos.

mnshadow24 This is one my my Favorite Michael Jackson videos. Thriller was very good for its time, the main special effects being the makeup and "fog". Now with more advanced computer graphics, I find the dance sequences even more fascinating. I loved the skeleton! Too bad this was not released in North America. I had to set the VCR to record this at 2 A.M. the other night. As for the music, it may not have been his best, but every artist goes through cycles, and I'm sure he will only get better!