10 Worst Neighbours In Horror Movies

If there's a lesson for landlords in this movie it's this: always do the credit check.

Michael Keaton is on suitably unpleasant form here as a mysterious, increasingly diabolical tenant who forces his way into a couple's apartment building. For anyone who's lived in a flat, is there anything much worse than renovation at all hours? The malevolent Hayes winds up driving everyone mad with his endless noise all day and all night.

That's all bad enough to warrant a place on this list and we haven't even got to the unfortunate reasons he makes this a horror movie. Totally psychotic, Hayes begins to terrorise his landlords with everything from firearms to identity theft. The guy's just all round horrible, a true walking disaster.

Critically dismissed back in 1990 as a cliché-laden horror flick for yuppies, Pacific Heights is carried by the venomous hate of Keaton's performance. While it was an odd role to follow up his first outing as Batman with, his scene-stealing work turns this potentially ridiculous character into a layered portrait of criminal evil. A perfectly terrible neighbour from start to finish.