Michael Jackson made a 39-minute horror film with Stephen King in the 1990s, and somehow an entire generation barely remembers it existed.
It was called Ghosts.
What started as an idea years earlier eventually became one of the most ambitious projects Michael Jackson ever put on film. Stephen King helped develop the story, and Stan Winston, the legendary special-effects artist behind some of Hollywood's most famous movie creatures, directed it.
Jackson didn't just play the mysterious Maestro. He transformed himself through extensive makeup and effects to play five different roles, including the grotesque Mayor who leads a group of townspeople to the Maestro's mansion demanding that he leave.
“2 Bad,” “Ghosts” and “Is It Scary” become part of an enormous supernatural dance production filled with practical effects, makeup and choreography.
At more than 38 minutes, Ghosts even held the record for the longest music video for years, and in 1997 it received a special screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
Everybody remembers Thriller.
But how many of you remember Michael Jackson's Ghosts?
And how many are seeing this for the first time?
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Actress Hayden Panettiere has died suddenly at just 36 years old after being found unresponsive in a South Carolina apartment. She would have turned 37 on Friday.
Nearly 3 months ago, she revealed on a podcast that when she was 18, a woman she trusted as a protector walked her into a cabin on a boat and put her in bed beside a naked “very famous” man.
Hayden had openly battled severe alcohol and opioid addiction for years. She said someone on her team began giving her “happy pills” when she was just 15.
Her addiction later became so severe that she would wake up shaking and drink alcohol just to function.
She also suffered from severe postpartum depression after her daughter Kaya was born.
Her death came only 18 months after her former Ice Princess co-star Michelle Trachtenberg died at 39.
Hayden had already suffered another devastating loss in 2023, when her younger brother Jansen Panettiere died at just 28 from aortic valve complications.