In Lakeview Terrace, Samuel L. Jackson portrays Abel Turner, a police officer and self-appointed one-man neighborhood watch in a quiet suburban California community. When an interracial couple moves into the neighborhood, Abel disapproves. Little by little, Turner offers up an escalating range of hints that the couple might not want to get too comfortable. And because of Abel's senior status on the LAPD, the hapless couple is left to their own devices to win this battle of wills with the relentless Mr. Turner.

Just about everyone has had a bad neighbor or two over the years, but hopefully no one's experienced anyone quite like our list of the worst movie neighbors. From Satan's followers to terrorists and murderers, the following group will make you kiss your neighbors on the cheek and thank your lucky stars they're the worst you have to deal with.

	Louis Tully (Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters) Sure, Louis means well and he's relatively harmless, but everyone's had that persistently chatty neighbor who just can't take a hint. Oh, and did I mention he's possessed?
	Vic (Dan Aykroyd in Neighbors) For harmless suburbanite Earl Keese (John Belushi playing against type), Vic represents everything he's been trying to avoid -- wild, crazy, and generally reckless. Vic does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, at anyone's expense. And every time poor Earl tries to expose Vic as the wackjob he truly is, he winds up looking like the loony.
	Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack in Arlington Road) Jeff Bridges' character, Michael Faraday, just lost his FBI-agent wife to a terrorist operation and he also happens to teach a class on terrorism, so his paranoid suspicions about new neighbors the Langs look to be little more than the rants of a broken man with terrorism on the brain. Besides, the Langs seem like friendly enough, straight-laced welcoming neighbors with nothing to hide. Sure, they've been partaking in few strange late night activities and they have blueprints scattered around the house, but it's a free country, right? As the situation escalates, Faraday realizes his suspicions were correct, but now his biggest challenge is proving to everyone else he's a credible accuser.
	Mr. Turner (David Morse in Disturbia) Watch enough movies and you might think every neighbor shoving black Hefty bags into their trunk late at night is a murderer. Shia Lebeouf's Kale may be on house arrest, but between the new hottie next door on one side and the mysterious Turner on the other, he's got more than his fair share of entertainment. Much like Faraday in Arlington Road, a teen troublemaker on house arrest may not sound like the most credible source, so Kale has his work cut out for him as he and his gang of teen sleuths try to prove their neighbor is a serial killer.
	Charlie Meadows (John Goodman in Barton Fink) As if selling out to Hollywood wasn't bad enough for this "respectable" New York playwright, he's now got a nasty case of writer's block. The kindly and colorful insurance salesman next door may seem like a pleasant-enough distraction on those long and lonely nights, but Charlie Meadows is looking to Barton for more than friendship -- he's the perfect sap to pin his murders on.
	The Klopeks (The Burbs) Shortly before going legit on the Oscar scene in the early '90s, Tom Hanks added one more piece of '80s kitsch to his repertoire. As Ray Peterson, Hanks decides to chill out at home for a week away from work. In a vague nod to Jimmy Stewart's Rear Window character, Peterson spends his time "observing" the neighbors. The weirdest of all are the new family in the 'hood, the Klopeks, some sort of cross between The Addams Family and the Mansons. Peterson soon leads the charge to expose their secrets once and for all.
	Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund in A Nightmare on Elm Street) As if it weren't bad enough to have a child molester-murderer living in the neighborhood, the townsfolk of Springwood have to land the one who won't die after they torch his place. Krueger returns from the dead via the dreams of the town's teenagers, slashing up their offspring as they lay "safe" in their beds. Moving is useless, so throw on another pot of coffee and mainline the NoDoze.
	Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr in Rear Window) Hitchcock builds the tension beautifully in the original bad-neighbor flick. Stuck at home with nothing but time and his telephoto lens, freelance photojournalist L.B. Jefferies spends his days watching his neighbors, from poor Miss Lonelyheart to the nubile newlyweds and on to the ever-flexible Miss Torso. The Thorwalds don't seem particularly interesting at first, just a salesman husband and his invalid wife. But when the wife suddenly disappears, Lars starts to notice Mr. Thorwald acting very mysteriously, all with an extra spring in his step. Thorwald's curiosity is contagious and he soon pulls his lovely fiancée (Grace Kelly) in on the dangerous scheme to expose a killer.
	Carter Hayes (Michael Keaton in Pacific Heights) You hear plenty of tales of evil landlords, but not too often do you hear of a tenant harassing the landlords. Unfortunately for this unsuspecting and trusting young couple renting out two rooms in their new dream townhouse in the hills of San Francisco, Carter Hayes knows exactly how to play the system to his best advantage. He knows the laws backwards and forwards and, by the way, he's done this before. Besides living rent free, Hayes is making noise and taking apart his new home sweet home piece by piece. There's only one way to take care of a neighbor like this, and the law has nothing to do with it.
	Roman and Minnie Castevet (Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby) Young couple Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse decide to ignore their friends' warnings of the Bramford building's unsavory history. This is Manhattan, after all, and a cheap apartment is a rare find. Besides, all the kindly old neighbors immediately welcome the new couple to the neighborhood. The problem is, those "kindly" old fogies have an ulterior motive -- namely, they think Rosemary is the perfect incubator for baby Satan. Just wait for those terrible twos!