{"id":21157,"date":"2018-10-30T04:35:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21157"},"modified":"2018-10-30T04:39:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:39:10","slug":"state-by-state-the-most-popular-horror-films-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21157","title":{"rendered":"State by State &#8211; The Most Popular Horror Films in America!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2018\/z103018fav_horror_state.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"509\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zack Sharf and IndieWire present\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/10\/americas-favorite-horror-movies-each-state-1202012186\/\">The Most Popular Horror Films in America: New Study Reveals Each State\u2019s Most Talked-About Title<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Here they are (with my comments)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Alabama: \u201cHalloween\u201d (A classic!)<\/p>\n<p>Alaska: \u201cLittle Shop of Horrors\u201d (Comedy over horror)<\/p>\n<p>Arizona: \u201cWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane\u201d (Arizona does have a lot of retirees)<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas: \u201cThe Thing\u201d (Now we&#8217;re talking!)<\/p>\n<p>California: \u201cThe Orphanage\u201d (Wonder if the latest border separations influenced this&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Colorado: \u201cThe Shining\u201d (When a movie is made in your state&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut: \u201cPan\u2019s Labyrinth\u201d (Ok&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Delaware: \u201cThe Birds\u201d\u00a0 (Another classic!)<\/p>\n<p>District of Columbia: \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d (The movie that scares you most after watching it&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Florida: \u201cThis Is the End\u201d (Comedy over horror)<\/p>\n<p>Georgia: \u201cGet Out\u201d (A modern day classic&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii: \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d (See District of Columbia)<\/p>\n<p>Idaho: \u201cThe Birds\u201d (See Delaware)<\/p>\n<p>Illinois: \u201cThe House of the Devil\u201d\u00a0 (Huh?)<\/p>\n<p>Indiana: \u201cFrankenstein\u201d (My birth state goes with a classic!)<\/p>\n<p>Iowa: \u201cEvil Dead 2\u201d (Groovy!)<\/p>\n<p>Kansas: \u201cShaun of the Dead\u201d\u00a0 (Comedy over horror)<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky: \u201cEvil Dead 2\u201d (See Iowa)<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana: \u201cGet Out\u201d\u00a0 (Interesting that GA and LA are both Southern States&#8230; &#8220;They&#8217;re on to us!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Maine: \u201cThe Host\u201d (Surprised it wasn&#8217;t a Stephen King adaptation)<\/p>\n<p>Maryland: \u201cBlair Witch Project\u201d (When a film is made in your state&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts: \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d (Is SotL really a horror film?)<\/p>\n<p>Michigan: \u201cNear Dark\u201d (Well, played Michigan.)<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota: \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d (See Massachusetts)<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi: \u201cDrag Me to Hell\u201d (Seems redundant since you&#8217;re in Mississippi.\u00a0 &#8211; Just kidding!)<\/p>\n<p>Missouri: \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d (See Minnesota)<\/p>\n<p>Montana: \u201cYoung Frankenstein\u201d (Comedy over horror. How about <em>A&amp;C Meet Frankenstein<\/em>?)<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska: \u201cKing Kong\u201d (A classic)<\/p>\n<p>Nevada: \u201cShaun of the Dead\u201d (See Montana)<\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire: \u201cInvasion of the Body Snatchers\u201d (The original or the remake?\u00a0 The original.)<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey: \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d (Seems to be a state favorite. But is it really horror?)<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico: \u201cBride of Frankenstein\u201d (A well deserved classic.)<\/p>\n<p>New York: \u201cPsycho\u201d (A modern &#8211; does the 60&#8217;s still count as modern? &#8211; classic.)<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina: \u201cHalloween\u201d (John Carpenter&#8217;s classic &#8211; don&#8217;t accept substitutes.)<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota: \u201cAliens\u201d (A great movie!)<\/p>\n<p>Ohio: \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d (Ok.\u00a0 I get it. I give up. SotL is Horror!)<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma: \u201cThis is the End\u201d (Comedy over horror.)<\/p>\n<p>Oregon: \u201cA Girl Walks Home Alone at Night\u201d (Sounds like the start of a joke.)<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania: \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d (I&#8217;ve already conceded.)<\/p>\n<p>Rhode Island: \u201cThe Love Witch\u201d (Sounds like a 60&#8217;s drive-in movie)<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina: \u201cThe Loved Ones\u201d (The second feature to &#8220;The Love Witch&#8221; at the drive-in.)<\/p>\n<p>South Dakota: \u201cCabin in the Woods\u201d (Now we&#8217;re talking.)<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee: \u201cThe Witch\u201d (Ok.)<\/p>\n<p>Texas: \u201cTexas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d (Another modern (?) classic.)<\/p>\n<p>Utah: \u201cZombieland\u201d (Comedy over horror)<\/p>\n<p>Vermont: \u201cThe Exorcist\u201d (Scariest movie ever.)<\/p>\n<p>Virginia: \u201cDrag Me to Hell\u201d (Or Mississippi. &#8211; Again, I&#8217;m kidding!)<\/p>\n<p>Washington: \u201cShaun of the Dead\u201d (We like our horror played for laughs.)<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia: \u201cA Nightmare on Elm Street\u201d (Pleasant nightmares!)<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin: \u201cShaun of the Dead\u201d (See Washington.)<\/p>\n<p>Wyoming: \u201cThe Babadook\u201d (That&#8217;s the best you&#8217;ve got?)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised ot a single state picked: <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em>; <em>28 days later<\/em>; or\u00a0\u00a0<em>World War Z<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zack Sharf and IndieWire present\u00a0The Most Popular Horror Films in America: New Study Reveals Each State\u2019s Most Talked-About Title.\u00a0 \u00a0Here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21202,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21157\/revisions\/21202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}