As Halloween looms, here are the most Googled horror movies, state by state

Ray Richmond
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With Halloween now just days away, America’s thoughts turn increasingly to witches, demons, the paranormal and scaring the heck out of ourselves. And of course, few things accomplish this goal better than horror movies, a genre the United States has largely claimed as its own. To get everyone in the spirit, the website bank-locations.net launched a state-by-state study of Google to discern (based on searches) which Halloween-themed flicks were most popular in each state of the union.

To generate its conclusions, the research team analyzed 200+ top-rated horror films from IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, then studied specific searches for each movie. For example, for “The Shining,” they gathered keywords like “watch the shining,” “the shining full movie,” “”the shining streaming, “The shining netflix” and “where to watch the shining.”

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Horror movies were split into two groups: those before 2000 and those after. More than half of the states (27) preferred Googling horror movies released before the turn of the millennium, while 23 favored more recent releases.

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The most Googled movie by a fairly significant margin was the 2017 modern classic “Get Out” that earned Jordan Peele a 2018 Best Original Screenplay Oscar. It dominated the searches in nine states, including Arizona, Georgia and Illinois. Next was the 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster “Jaws,” which was the top choice in four states including New Jersey. And in three states, the most Googled film was the aforementioned “The Shining.”

Here is the state-by-state overview of Googled horror movies, in alphabetical state order:

ALABAMA: “The Conjuring” (2013)

ALASKA: “A Quiet Place” (2018)

ARIZONA: “Get Out” (2017)

ARKANSAS: “It” (2017)

CALIFORNIA: “Hannibal” (2001)

COLORADO: “The Shining” (1980)

CONNECTICUT: “Jaws” (1975)

DELAWARE: “Get Out”

FLORIDA: “Trick ‘r Treat” (2007)

GEORGIA: “Get Out”

HAWAII: “The Thing” (1982)

IDAHO: “The Exorcist” (1973)

ILLINOIS: “Get Out”

INDIANA: “Frankenstein” (1931)

IOWA: “The Shining”

KANSAS: “A Quiet Place”

KENTUCKY: “Jaws”

LOUISIANA: “Get Out”

MAINE: “The Ring” (2002)

MARYLAND: “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)

MASSACHUSETTS: “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)

MICHIGAN: “The Conjuring” (2013)

MINNESOTA: “Get Out”

MISSISSIPPI: “The Exorcist”

MISSOURI: “Little Shop of Horrors” (1986)

MONTANA: “The Evil Dead” (1981)

NEBRASKA: “Friday the 13th” (1980)

NEVADA: “Get Out”

NEW HAMPSHIRE: “It” (2017)

NEW JERSEY: “Jaws”

NEW MEXICO: “Get Out”

NEW YORK: “Psycho” (1960)

NORTH CAROLINA: “Halloween” (1978)

NORTH DAKOTA: “Aliens” (1986)

OHIO: “Get Out”

OKLAHOMA: “Poltergeist” (1982)

OREGON: “Trick ‘r Treat”

PENNSYLVANIA: “The Silence of the Lambs”

RHODE ISLAND: “Scream” (1996)

SOUTH CAROLINA: “Jaws”

SOUTH DAKOTA: “The Cabin in the Woods” (2011)

TENNESSEE: “The Exorcist”

TEXAS: “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”

UTAH: “Halloween”

VERMONT: “The Shining”

VIRGINIA: “Drag Me to Hell” (2009)

WASHINGTON: “Friday the 13th”

WEST VIRGINIA: “The Babadook (2014)

WISCONSIN: “Shaun of the Dead” (2004)

WYOMING: “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984)

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