8 Annoying Movie Ghosts Who Make Us Go ‘BoooOOOOoooo’

Most ghosts are scary — that ’s generallywhat they ’re known for — but some ghosts are more like pests . They thrust ahead into your life and instead of give you nightmare , they give you headaches , so much so thatyou’d almost rather be spook rather . Let ’s calculate at some of the most galling movie ghosts ever .

8) Slimer, Ghostbusters

Slimeris one of the with child ghost characters ever , but would you really need this “ loathsome blob ” ( credit to Ray Stantz ) in your house ? Or perhaps rampage around your swanky hotel hallway , sloppily gobbling up room - religious service leftovers ? Slimer , who did n’t actually get that name until The Real Ghostbusters animated cartoon came out a couple of years after the collide with movie , has since become a lovable fan pet , with plenty ofhis own merchand rolesin subsequent Ghostbusters moviesandgames . But even though we adore him , we distrust that Slimer is well experience in very small Elvis , and decidedly never when solid food is regard .

7) Martin, High Spirits

Neil Jordan ’s 1988 supernatural fixed storage - com , congeal at a crumbling Irish castle that ’s fake - obsessed for the benefit of tourists until some actual ghosts bulge their heads up , is a magnificently frightening flick . That ’s mainly because every character , animation or numb , is just instantly unlikeable . Liam Neesonand Daryl Hannah play Martin and Mary , high-pitched Spirits ’ main ghost characters . At first , they ’re cling in a supernaturaltime loop , sentence to replay Martin ’s brutal murder of his unexampled bride Mary — a grim scenario that ’s apace brush aside ( and later joke about ) when Jack ( Steve Guttenberg ) , an American confab the castle , unexpectedly intervenes .

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While Mary ’s falling for Jack , Martin takes a refulgence to Jack ’s sharp wife , Sharon ( Beverly D’Angelo ) . Many off - putting shenanigans ensure , butMartin showing off his giant shade dong , pursuing Sharon around the castle evidence in a haunted bus , and then play a joke on her into shoot down herself so they can be together perpetually ( something that ’s , again , play for joke ) is Oliver Stone - coldness obnoxious .

Fatso, Stretch, and Stinky, aka the Ghostly Trio, in Casper.

Fatso, Stretch, and Stinky, aka the Ghostly Trio, in Casper.Image: Universal Pictures

6) Frank, Ghost Town

This 2008 clowning start as dally married man Frank ( Greg Kinnear ) gets squashed by a bus , and self - loathing dentist Bertram ( Ricky Gervais ) almost expires during a colonoscopy . Bertram ’s near - destruction experience carries a strange side effect : he ’s able-bodied to communicate with NYC ’s resident population of very indigent trace . overjealous from beyond the grave accent despite his own vagabondage eye , Frank starts incessantly pestering Bertram to sabotage the new relationship his widow , Gwen ( Tea Leoni ) , has sparked with a do - gooder attorney ; thing get even more complicated when the dental practitioner starts to come down for Gwen himself . Despite his asshole conduct on Earth , Frank eventually redeems himself and finally chance the public security he ’s so urgently seeking ( see : his inclusion on ourvery dissimilar form of wraith leaning ) . But he is downright intolerable to be around until he gets to that point .

5) The Ghostly Trio, Casper

Casper ’s rude , rambunctious uncles treat their nephew like garbage and delight in tormenting ghost expert Dr. Harvey ( Bill Pullman ) with pranks galore — until they take a shine to the guy wire and plot to off him so he can join their ghost gang . Then , when he accidentally causes his own death , they enrapture in their good fortune even as Harvey ’s daughter , Kat ( Christina Ricci ) , despair at her sire ’s ecto - mannequin . luckily , Harvey ’s able to revive thanks to an invention leave behind by Casper ’s own long - at rest father — and the Ghostly Trio finally ends up putting their troublemaking skills to effective usance for once , daunt off the middle - schooling bullies who ’re plotting to destroy Kat ’s Halloween party .

4) Ramsley, The Haunted Mansion

The Haunted Mansionis nobody ’s favorite Eddie Murphy movie , and also nobody ’s favorite moviebased on a Disney theme park drive . But amid all its ostensibly humorous cackling , agree , and disembodied apparitions , the 2003 clowning does have one exceptionally frustrative specter , in the form of Ramsley ( Terence Stamp ) . He ’s the ghostly butler who ’s the reason the mansion is haunted in the first place — and also not above committing additional murders to ultimately insure his place in the afterlife . He ’s not just annoying , he ’s also a condescend , manipulative , evil - plan - making jerkface .

3) Uncle Wayne, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

This fizzing riff on A Christmas Carol , themost timeless spectre storyof them all , stars Matthew McConaughey ( several age prior to his career refurbish via True Detective and Oscar amber ) as a toxic womanizer mention Connor who starts to repent his life choices when he reconnects with his first love , played by Jennifer Garner . Then , he really sees the error of his style thanks to ghost from his past tense , present , and future tense , plus a fillip apparition : his dearly departed Uncle Wayne ( Michael Douglas ) , a lifelong lothario who pops up à la Jacob Marley ( except wearing dark glasses indoors ) , joyously warning Connor about the chagrin he ’ll be forced to endure . He ’s creepy-crawly as hell ( he calls his auto “ the stabbin ’ Dipper ” ) and though he ’s full of advice for Connor , he has n’t change his way even in the hereafter — remove on a spectre stripling played by Emma Stone ! To quote her character ’s reception , ewwwww .

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2) Elizabeth, Just Like Heaven

Workaholic ER doctor Elizabeth ( Reese Witherspoon ) is n’t even a real ghost — her earthly pattern is still alive , albeit comatose — but that does n’t quit her from haunting the recently widowed landscape designer ( Mark Ruffalo ) who moves into her former flat . And by “ haunting , ” we mean force the guy , who is already emotionally fragile enough , along on her quest to find out who the nether region she is and what the hell happened to her , not really care if other people think he ’s crazy for claim to be communicating with a trace . Which they do . A lot .