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Imaginary Playmate

(2006)

This little girl's dad and step-mom are super annoying (they're the idiot couple that talks in baby talk and are constantly all over each other like white on rice), so she escapes the horror by getting an imaginary friend. It turns out the imaginary friend is really a ghost though, and needless to say things go downhill fast. Well, maybe not fast, but downhill at any rate. One of the first bad things that happens is that the dad and step-mom start fighting, which is no surprise because everybody knows that relationships where people are all like "I wuv you pooky" are secretly dysfunctional and it just takes one little thing (like vengeance from beyond the grave) to completely fuck them up. After a while the ghost tries to drown the little girl, then it pushes the pregnant step-mom off a ladder and she ends up saving a fortune on pre-natal care.* Later the kid's doctor bites it too, but seeing as how she crashed into a lumber truck while she was yakking on her cell phone (women...) I don't see how you can blame that on the ghost. In the end the ghost finally makes its appearance (it's blue) and tries to get the little girl to commit suicide, but the step-mom talks her out of it. Wow, talking. That's an exciting way to end a horror flick. Weak.

A better movie would have been Imaginary Playboy Playmate.

*I fucking hate it when they pull the old "killing the unborn baby" shtick it these movies: technically somebody got wasted, but you don't actually get to see anything. It's totally lame.