YMMV / Michael Jackson's Ghosts

• Designated Hero: Maestro. Even if he is defending himself — the Mayor and mob don't exactly get a chance to make good on their threats — he holds the whole group captive and with the help of his minions terrifies and emotionally manipulates them for a goodly length of time. He also possesses the Mayor, ultimately driving him to what might be his death, but the other characters love him for all of this and the viewer is supposed to follow suit.
• Funny Moments: Near the end, after the Mayor defeated Maestro, he goes to the front of the door only to be greeted by a monstrous Maestro face, who simply shouts "'HELLLO!!!!" in such a goofy manner.
• Glurge: Due to the implications of the premise and how they're played out. In particular, its use of Black-and-White Morality becomes suspect when one considers the Reality Subtext: Apparently, if you do not take a person accused of molesting a child at their word — that letting unrelated children sleep in their bed is totally innocent — and instead try to take the accusations against them to court, you're a black-hearted villain who can't accept people who are "different".
• Spiritual Successor: To Thriller, of course.
• Values Dissonance:
  • The (ostensibly) evil, bigoted Mayor is a fat, middle-aged white guy. It doesn't help that he isn't even played by one, but rather by Michael Jackson in a Fat Suit.
  • In the episode of the Stephen King podcast The Kingcast discussing this short, the hosts discuss how this actually applies more to the making-of material in that Jackson keeps bringing up the fact that the Mayor's overweight and invariably yokes it to him being a disgusting person ("I play the fat, grotesque, ridiculous Mayor"), carrying the unfortunate implication that Jackson was fatphobic.

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