State by State – The Most Popular Horror Films in America!

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Zack Sharf and IndieWire present The Most Popular Horror Films in America: New Study Reveals Each State’s Most Talked-About Title.   Here they are (with my comments)…

Alabama: “Halloween” (A classic!)

Alaska: “Little Shop of Horrors” (Comedy over horror)

Arizona: “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane” (Arizona does have a lot of retirees)

Arkansas: “The Thing” (Now we’re talking!)

California: “The Orphanage” (Wonder if the latest border separations influenced this…)

Colorado: “The Shining” (When a movie is made in your state…)

Connecticut: “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Ok…)

Delaware: “The Birds”  (Another classic!)

District of Columbia: “The Exorcist” (The movie that scares you most after watching it…)

Florida: “This Is the End” (Comedy over horror)

Georgia: “Get Out” (A modern day classic…)

Hawaii: “The Exorcist” (See District of Columbia)

Idaho: “The Birds” (See Delaware)

Illinois: “The House of the Devil”  (Huh?)

Indiana: “Frankenstein” (My birth state goes with a classic!)

Iowa: “Evil Dead 2” (Groovy!)

Kansas: “Shaun of the Dead”  (Comedy over horror)

Kentucky: “Evil Dead 2” (See Iowa)

Louisiana: “Get Out”  (Interesting that GA and LA are both Southern States… “They’re on to us!”)

Maine: “The Host” (Surprised it wasn’t a Stephen King adaptation)

Maryland: “Blair Witch Project” (When a film is made in your state…)

Massachusetts: “The Silence of the Lambs” (Is SotL really a horror film?)

Michigan: “Near Dark” (Well, played Michigan.)

Minnesota: “The Silence of the Lambs” (See Massachusetts)

Mississippi: “Drag Me to Hell” (Seems redundant since you’re in Mississippi.  – Just kidding!)

Missouri: “The Silence of the Lambs” (See Minnesota)

Montana: “Young Frankenstein” (Comedy over horror. How about A&C Meet Frankenstein?)

Nebraska: “King Kong” (A classic)

Nevada: “Shaun of the Dead” (See Montana)

New Hampshire: “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (The original or the remake?  The original.)

New Jersey: “The Silence of the Lambs” (Seems to be a state favorite. But is it really horror?)

New Mexico: “Bride of Frankenstein” (A well deserved classic.)

New York: “Psycho” (A modern – does the 60’s still count as modern? – classic.)

North Carolina: “Halloween” (John Carpenter’s classic – don’t accept substitutes.)

North Dakota: “Aliens” (A great movie!)

Ohio: “The Silence of the Lambs” (Ok.  I get it. I give up. SotL is Horror!)

Oklahoma: “This is the End” (Comedy over horror.)

Oregon: “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” (Sounds like the start of a joke.)

Pennsylvania: “The Silence of the Lambs” (I’ve already conceded.)

Rhode Island: “The Love Witch” (Sounds like a 60’s drive-in movie)

South Carolina: “The Loved Ones” (The second feature to “The Love Witch” at the drive-in.)

South Dakota: “Cabin in the Woods” (Now we’re talking.)

Tennessee: “The Witch” (Ok.)

Texas: “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (Another modern (?) classic.)

Utah: “Zombieland” (Comedy over horror)

Vermont: “The Exorcist” (Scariest movie ever.)

Virginia: “Drag Me to Hell” (Or Mississippi. – Again, I’m kidding!)

Washington: “Shaun of the Dead” (We like our horror played for laughs.)

West Virginia: “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (Pleasant nightmares!)

Wisconsin: “Shaun of the Dead” (See Washington.)

Wyoming: “The Babadook” (That’s the best you’ve got?)

I’m surprised ot a single state picked: Night of the Living Dead; 28 days later; or  World War Z?