Monsters By State

Every State has its own monster like the Jersey Devil, Bigfoot or the Chupacabra that is made up only to scare kids to stay in bed all night and piss the sheets rather then get up or are, more likely, advertised to support bullshit college courses like Xenobiology that only exist to give the professor enough credibility to sell books and serve as an advisor for a film.
State Monsters or rather a State's Movie Monster is a monster that was created for a movie that represents that state's ideology and fears as well as its truths. Some of the more interesting are below.

Ohio

Before we begin, Ohio is a very arrogant state and if you are not from North East Ohio or from along the lake region, you might as well be from Kentucky. All you need to do is look at an Atlas and you'll see a blue patch along the lake including North East Ohio that is titled Ohio with the rest getting named North Kentucky.
Some historians claim that this is tge same way we csme to have 2 Virginias, 2 Dakotas and 2 Carolinas.

A Nightmare On Elm Street

If there was ever a State that was afraid of and loathed Pedophilic, kiddy killers with equal value it would be Ohio.
The United States Department of Justice actually has statistics showing that if you are an inmate, in prison, accused of a crime against children you are statistically more likely to die in an Ohio prison than any other state. So it's not much of a stretch for some parents to get pissed off and burn a pedo like it's a Nazi bake off when a child raper/killer is let off because a judge signed a warrent in the wrong place.
Being from Cleveland, Wes Craven wanted to properly portray his state's favorite pastime of putting down pedos but also knowing that kiddy crimes are committed more by the uneducated and poor, that's why he set Nightmare in that Northern Kentucky city of Springfield or Middle Ohio as the mutants like to call it.
Freddy Krueger embodies that Ohio fear that the children are always in danger of being dragged into some weird man's basement and killed. No place is safe, not even school. Even that mousy, white janitor with the Uber German name like Krueger might have dark secrets that nobody knows about.
The Freddy movies follow the Ohio idea, which also has become a part of the Americunt consciousness that a child molester is "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" and Freddy's innocence is never questioned in the original movies and this might be why the Jackie Earl Haley version failed because there was that brief plot development where Freddy might be innocent and the Children were making it all up.
A Nightmare On Elm Street preeches the wisdom of Ohio, "Listen to the Children. When you find a pedo, MURDER his ass and keep murdering it."

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Fans of the movie have followed clues in the movie like Janet covering her head with a Cleveland Plain Dealer when she and Brad are walking in the rain to Dr Frank N. Furter's castle and the marks on the Criminologist's map putting the location of Dr Frank N Furter's castle in McArthur, Ohio or rather that distant part of Ohio where the Mutants were forced to start up houskeeping when their bus broke down on the way to Kentucky.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Feeds that hillbilly, far-right American fear that everybody has a secret gay fetish that religion and healthy living keeps locked away deep down in their in their psyche so it can never escape but there is an evil conspiracy of faggots out there whose goal it is to turn everyone queer.
Much like the old Germanic stories like The Loli In The Red Riding Hood or Hansel And His Loli Sister Gretel the villain is portrayed as openly eccentric but a nice person that rescues the characters from their current predicament. As the story progresses, the villain takes advantage of his position and the characters are slowly corrupted and start experimenting in wickedness like ass fucking and canabilism, with a little help from trickery or smooth talking.
When the story ends, the bad guy either flies away or is killed and then it becomes the role of the story characters to take his place and spread his evil like dark priests.

Friday The 13th: Jason Goes To Hell

Getting recognized because Jason's first kill of the movie is in Youngstown, Ohio and if he had any remaining bit of his soul he would have killed the whole city out of kindness. Also, Freddy Vs Jason shows that intellectually deficient, machete wielding psychos don't like pedo freaks either.

New Jersey

Friday The 13th

Oh the poor state of New Jersey that doesn't really get any attention unless Martin Scorsese is filming a mob movie, the US Government is running another crackdown on organized crime or it's fall and the leafers are there to see the fall colours, even The Statue Of Liberty's back is turned to the state. Is it any wonder how such an angry state could produce such an efficiant, mindless killing machine?
Power Word Jason Vorhees is the State of New Jersey's 350 pound vengeance machine against out-of-staters that say they are there for the natural beauty but leave their used condoms, empty beer cans and garbage everwhere. He also stands for Jersey's hate against New York when he marched against Manhattan.
Jason is probably best know for being the first diversified horror movie character in that it was his mother doing all the killing in tge first movie.
You know what they say, you gotta watch out for them Jersey girls.