Halloween is right around the corner, which means it's time to stream all your favorite horror movies on Netflix. The villains in those terrifying films may have you sleeping with the lights on. Don't worry, though, you're not the only one. It turns out there are 12 horror villains that haunt viewers more than the rest and Frontier Bundles broke it down by state.
The Frontier Bundles data analyst team selected 12 popular villains from classic, pre-2000 horror movies and used Google Trends to analyze their search volume in the last 12 months. After that, Frontier Bundles reported the villain with the highest search volume in each state. Here's which villain is feared most in each state:
Count Dracula:
- Hawaii
Frankenstein's Monster
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Massachusettes
- New Jersey
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
Alien:
- Alaska
- Kansas
- Washington
Carrie:
- Vermont
- Wyoming
Chucky:
- California
- Illinois
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Nevada
- New Mexico
Freddy Krueger:
- West Virginia
Ghostface:
- Georgia
- Maryland
Hannibal Lecter:
- Florida
- Minnesota
- Montana
- New Hampshire
- Oklahoma
Jack Torrance:
- Arizona
- Colorado
- Michigan
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- New York
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Wisconsin
Leatherface:
- Texas
- Arkansas
- Kentucky
- Ohio
Norman Bates:
- Rhode Island
- South Dakota
Pennywise:
- Idaho
- Virginia
- Alabama
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Maine
- North Dakota
- Utah
Which one of these classic horror movie villains are you most frightened of?
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