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 the same way we came 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.

Trick R Treat

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Set once again, surprise, North Kentucky or rather Southern Ohio in Warren County.
Mostly focuses on the traditions of Halloween, answering why you should never blow out the candle in a Jack O'Lantern and rather, let it go out itself. Why you shouldn't deny candy beggers their treats, why you should always check your candy and why you should stay away from college girls dressed in slutty costumes.

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.
Friday The 13th is probably best know for being the first diversified horror movie in that it was Jason's mother doing all the killing in the first movie.
You know what they say, you gotta watch out for them Jersey girls.

Pennsylvania

Night Of The Living Dead

Can anyone make a better metaphor for the State of Pennsylvania than mindless Zombies walking around like broke junkies looking for a fix?
If you have ever been to Philadelphia, the Zombie scenes look like any night of the week on the streets when the cops hide for cover until dawn.

Texas

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Now if there was ever a state where someone would kill their mother, cut off her face and wear it like a mask it's Texas.
Texas is a scary state, if it's not the illegal Mexicans jumping the border and killing you because you were walking your dog and saw them smuggling backpacks of drugs into your city it's their private army, their Texas Rangers emptying a .45 into your chest because they felt you looked suspicious cutting in line at a bank.
Outside of water shortages, brown outs, F-5 tornados, being on G-d's all time shit list and a looming war with Mexico, Texas really has nothing going for it outside of cool beef commercials voiced by Sam Elliott, which on the flip side also leads us to one of the best known insults with regards to the state.
Is it any wonder that when a van full of pot smoking hippies pulls up to point and laugh that no one in the state says a damn thing when a few eccentric Sons of The South choose to make bacon out of their asses?

Georgia

Deliverance

You're probably saying that Deliverance isn't a horror movie, then you most likely have never seen the movie and suffered through Ned Beaty's ass rape scene because if you had, you'd be scared shitless of Georgia Hillbillies.
Before Deliverance, most people thought hillbillies were just in-breeding and making illegal whiskey, for the most part people believed they kept to themselves. After Deliverance, people learned that hillbillies were angry, toothless, banjo playing monsters that are not above Surprise sexing a fat guy because he looks cute wearing his life jacket or fucking some guys throat because he has a nice set of lips around his mouth hole.
Your average person that finds themself lost in Georgia and arriving in an out of the way area full of decrepit trailors and broken down trucks in the yard can feel their asshole clamp shut as they remember that the ass rape wasn't some good old fashioned hillbilly funning but rather that last insult before they gave Ned Beaty and friend a 12 gauge slug to the back of their head if they didn't favor the idea of cutting open their stomach, pulling out their intestines and leaving them to die slow or have an animal eat them inside out just for shits and giggles.

Louisiana

Candy Man

Whoopdee fucking doo. A Bloody Mary story. South Park's Biggie Small's take on the urban legend is better.

Anne Rice's Vampire Stories

A bunch of gay vampires and a loli vampire. That's it. Think Twilight without furries but for gay people.

Angel Heart

Absolutely terrifying when you know what Mickey Rourke will look like in 25 years.
You begin the movie with what seems like an average run-of-the mill Raymond Chandler style detective movie where a P.I. is hired to go deep into the darkest scene of New Orleans witch craft and voodoo, where at first, it's played off with all the sincerity of a bunch of Goth kids trying to put a hex on their math teacher.
Through most of the movie we're reminded this is the modern age, post World War 2 where we have penicillin and science says there's no need to be afraid of the dark. Then it all becomes real and we are reminded tgat New Orleans is a city that sits with half of itself seated in science and the other half on oomba goomba tribal magic when we find out that Mickey Rourke was working for the devil to bring back a soul promised to Hell.

Illinois

Halloween

Would someone please explain the whole concept of this movie?
Michael Myers is your basic Illinois trailor trash, inbred, white trash, evil from watching too much Television autistic fuck-wit that walked in on his sister as she was getting fucked in her ass, and wanting to join in but only having a baby-dick, he went to the kitchen, got a carving knife and stuck both his sister and her boyfriend with his Freudian inches.
This one act sets up Michael's sexual appetite for the rest of his life, unable to get it up, he has to chase High School lolis around town and wait for that exact second tgat they are getting stuck with their boyfriend's meat blade so he can join in and fuck them both to death with his 9 inch sexualy repressed, dinner ware replacement.
Is it any wonder why Rosanne was set in Illinois?