原文: Top 10 Worst Neighbours in Movies

Neighbours are something that most of us have to deal with in real life - sometimes they become friends, sometimes they become our bitter enemies. Movies over the years have given us many “neighbours from hell” and this list is the pick of the ten most evil! So here is our list of the 10 worst neighbours in movies.

Sure - the quality of this movie is not the best, but it really epitomizes the neighbour from hell genre in the ’80s. Carter Hayes (played by Michael Keaton) moves in to an apartment in a nice townhouse in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights then refuses to pay rent. Not only that, he locks himself in his room and begins to tear the place apart. Then he begins introducing thousands of cockroaches in to the house! His aim? To make the house unliveable so the owners are forced to move out of it and sell it. You should definitely watch this film for the great satisfaction you get at the end - you won’t regret it!

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Black comedy directed by Danny DeVito, starring Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore as striving yuppies who leave the city and find the perfect brownstone on the perfect quiet street — only upstairs is this little old lady who, it turns out, is the ultimate unrelenting neighbor from hell. Sure, she’s in her 80s but she makes more noise than a rock band (she and her senior friends enjoy brass instruments); she constantly demands favors; she interferes with the happy couple’s privacy; and, despite all hope, shows no sign of quieting down (or, better, dying) any time within a century. Pic isn’t especially good – in fact it’s often cliché-ridden and unfunny. But it offers periodic moments and, if you want an example of an old lady pain-in-the-butt neighbor, Duplex is definitely a place to visit.

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In the small English village of Midwich everybody and everything falls into a deep, mysterious sleep for several hours in the middle of the day. Some months later every woman capable of child-bearing is pregnant and the children that are born out of these pregnancies seem to grow very fast and they all have the same blond hair and strange, penetrating eyes that make people do things they don’t want to do. Unfortunately, the adult neighbours of these children are incapable of dealing with their super powers - or are they?

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A Coen Brothers pic. John Turturro is Barton Fink, a “playwright” selling his soul in 1940s Hollywood, trying to write a crappy (but elusive) screenplay. Day by day Barton deteriorates into writer’s block, desperation and weirdness. Unfortunately for him that’s the good news — compared to the antics and ultimate threat from his next door neighbor (John Goodman) in the seedy hotel they’re living in. Goodman plays a seemingly amiable insurance salesman friend who, it turns out, is really not such a good friend; in fact he’s a bad friend, actually evil, and, as Satan as his witness, is going to make sure things don’t end well for Barton and his ambitions.

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What could be worse than having all your neighbors taken over – their bodies inhabited — by predatory aliens who ooze out of pods (that look like brussel sprouts) and who want to do the same to you? Original was a bit cheesy but much more engaging, authentic, and scary than the watered down 2007 Hollywood remake.

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So your neighbors are Devil worshippers who want your first born as the ‘next’ Devil. At least your husband, a struggling loser TV actor, is starting to get more TV gigs. All he had to do was join the Satanists – no problem there apparently – and sacrifice you and your baby to these freakazoid cultists and possibly bring down humanity as we know it. Hey, jobs are tough and your neighbors only want what’s best… to accelerate the rise of Hell and Satan on earth. In truth, the pic is excellent, directed by Roman Polanski, way better, more suspenseful and complex than the novel by Ira Levin, and genuinely scary.

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Sergeant Neil Howie arrives on a Scottish island looking for a missing teenager girl, Rowan Morrison. The place belongs to Lord Summerisle and is famous because of their plantation of apples and other fruits and their harvest. Sgt. Howie realizes that the locals are pagans, practicing old rituals, and Rowan is probably alive and being prepared to be sacrificed. The end of the story is a tragic surprise as Howie’s neighbours on the island select him as their next victim.

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This film is a Hitchcock classic. A guy in a wheelchair, a photographer, house bound and incapacitated observes his neighbors across the way through the apartment windows. He sees one, he thinks (maybe), who killed his (the neighbor’s) wife. Not a good time to be stuck in a wheelchair, especially when the unhappy neighbor (played by Raymond Burr, who ironically would soon spend years in a wheelchair in his starring role in the TV series, Ironside) realizes he’s been watched and naturally wants to “take care” of the snoopy, suspicious voyeur (Jimmy Stewart). Film was the partial basis for Brian De Palma’s, Body Double (1984) which, while gory and sometimes suspenseful, isn’t in the same league as Hitchcock’s beautifully paced, eerie original.

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Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the local neighbours assault his house.

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Wired-too-tight Marine officer (Chris Cooper) lives next door to Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) who’s in the middle of a midlife crisis, trying to find himself. Not a good time for him to be experimenting sexually, getting involved in drugs and hanging with teenagers (including the Colonel’s son). Because the good Colonel has his own issues: repressed rage, overwhelming confusion at the social changes around him, and some serious (and, for him, intolerable) and explosive sexual dysfunction and identity problems. Oh yea, he’s into guns – he is military – and when all of the Colonel’s issues get too big, this man, who may not be fundamentally bad but is fundamentally disturbed, snaps.

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译文: 电影中的10大恶邻【Top List】

      邻居是我们每个人在日常生活中必须面对的——有时他们会成为朋友，有时他们会变成我们痛苦的敌人。这些年来，电影里已经给我们展示了许多“恶邻”的形象，而这张单子就是精选了10大恶邻！所以这里就呈上了电影中的10大恶邻的清单。

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      由Danny DeVito指导的黑色幽默剧是由Ben Stiller和Drew Barrymore出演，他们饰演努力奋斗的雅皮士一族，离开城市，寻找完美的安静街道上矗立的石屋——楼上住着这位小老太，事实证明，她是个非常难相处的恶邻。当然，她是80多岁了，但是她比摇滚乐队还会闹腾（她和比她大的朋友热衷于铜管乐器）；她不断需要支持；她干扰幸福小夫妻的隐私生活；而且，毫无希望，在一个世纪中没有任何时间表现出停歇的征兆（或者，更好，垂死）。电影画面并不特别好——事实上，总是充满陈词滥调，非常无趣。但是它提供了周期性的时刻，而且，如果你想要一个让人讨厌老太恶邻的例子，双层公寓值得一看。

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      科恩兄弟拍摄的影片，John Turturro饰演Barton Fink，Barton Fink是一位“剧作家”，20世纪40年代，投身好莱坞，想要写一部蹩脚的（但难找的）电影剧本。日复一日Barton陷入了作家的僵局，绝望，怪异。不幸的是对他而言这却是个好消息——与他的邻居(John Goodman) 带来的古怪和极度威胁相比，他们共同住在一家乌烟瘴气的小旅馆里。Goodman扮演一位表看起来慈善的保险销售友人，事实上，并不是一个好人；或者说，他实际并不友善，应该说邪恶，或者说，撒旦也只是他的侍者，他总是让Barton不得善终，来满足他的野心。

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      会有什么事情比你所有邻居都被占据还要糟糕——他们身体被寄居——捕食性的外星人干的，他们慢慢地从碎片中流出（看起来像brussel sprouts），而且他们想对你做同样的事？原版略显劣质，但是比07年好莱乌掺水改编版更引人入胜，更真实，更恐怖。

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      看，你的邻居是恶魔的崇拜者，他们希望你的第一个孩子是“下一个”恶魔。至少你的丈夫开始接更多的电视演出，他一直努力，不至于成为失败的电视演员。他所需要做的就是加入撒旦崇拜的行列——表面看来，这似乎没什么问题——献上你自己和你的孩子，给这群疯狂的崇拜者，众所周知，这可能毁灭人类。嘿，工作很辛苦，你的邻居只是希望好过些…为了使地狱和撒旦加速升上地球。事实上，这部电影拍的棒极了，Roman Polanski执导，比Ira Levin的原著更悬念复杂，是真正的恐怖。

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      巡警Neil Howie 抵达苏格兰小岛，寻找一个失踪的十多岁的女孩，她叫Rowan Morrison。这个地区属于Lord Summerisle，它以苹果园种植和其他水果的盛产而闻名。巡警Neil Howie发现当地人是异教徒，他们奉行古老的仪式，其实Rowan Morrison还活着，但是是他们的将要献上的祭品。故事的结尾大大出乎人们的意料，Howie在岛上的邻居选他成为他们下一个牺牲者。

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      这是Hitchcock的经典之作。一个坐轮椅的家伙，一个摄影师，围困的屋子，他透过公寓的窗户不正常地偷窥他的邻居。他认为他看见一个人，这个人杀死他邻居的妻子。被困在轮椅上不是一个好时间，尤其是不幸的邻居（Raymond Burr演，奇怪的是他的屏幕形象在轮椅上坐了很多年）发现他已经被观察并且自然地想要“关照”这个爱窥探的、令人怀疑的窥视者（Jimmy Stewart）。Brian De Palma的分红色杀人夜（1984）有一部分是基于这部电影。粉红色杀人夜血淋淋的充满紧张的气氛，但是它和Hitchcock的完美进度和恐怖的感觉是无法匹敌的。

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      为了摆脱美国的暴力而移居英国，天体物理学家David Sumner 和他的妻子Amy被受雇搞破坏的当地人欺凌利用。当David最终站出来的时候，他在当地邻居袭击他家的时候使血液的抗争恶化。

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      兴奋不安的海军官员(Chris Cooper) 住在Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) 的隔壁，Lester Burnham正处于中年危机之中，努力想要找到自我。对他来说在此时经历性爱，吸毒和与青少年（包括Colonel的儿子）混在一起并不合适。因为老好人Colonel有自己的问题：压抑的愤怒，对他周遭的社会变化充满巨大的排斥感，还有一些严重的（对他来说不可忍受）泛滥的性官能障碍和自我认识问题。哦，天啊，他参军了——然后当所有Colonel的问题变得越来越大时，这个人也许本质并不坏，但是真正受到困扰，终于无法自持。

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