With Halloween just a few days away, (WOOHOO!) data analysts over at FrontierBundles.com have taken their annual research about horror villains to Google and analyzed fifteen popular icons from classic, pre-2000 horror movies. Over the past twelve months, the team searched each film in Google Trends and pulled the results on September 4, 2020.

Alabama	Chucky
Alaska	Hannibal Lecter
Arizona	Frankenstein’s Monster
Arkansas	Ghostface
California	Chucky
Colorado	Alien
Connecticut	Frankenstein’s Monster
Delaware	Frankenstein’s Monster
District of Columbia	Carrie
Florida	Alien
Georgia	Ghostface
Hawaii	Norman Bates
Idaho	Ghostface
Illinois	Chucky
Indiana	Ghostface
Iowa	Pennywise
Kansas	Ghostface
Kentucky	Leatherface
Louisiana	Chucky
Maine	Jack Torrance
Maryland	Frankenstein’s Monster
Massachusetts	Frankenstein’s Monster
Michigan	Carrie
Minnesota	Frankenstein’s Monster
Mississippi	Chucky
Missouri	Norman Bates
Montana	Alien
Nebraska	Pennywise
Nevada	Ghostface
New Hampshire	Frankenstein’s Monster
New Jersey	Frankenstein’s Monster
New Mexico	Chucky
New York	Carrie
North Carolina	Frankenstein’s Monster
North Dakota	Hannibal Lecter
Ohio	Norman Bates
Oklahoma	Leatherface
Oregon	Alien
Pennsylvania	Frankenstein’s Monster
Rhode Island	Norman Bates
South Carolina	Frankenstein’s Monster
South Dakota	Ghostface
Tennessee	Leatherface
Texas	Chucky
Utah	Pennywise
Vermont	Alien
Virginia	Norman Bates
Washington	Alien
West Virginia	Pennywise
Wisconsin	Ghostface
Wyoming	Dracula

One can’t argue that Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein monster does, and rightfully should reign supreme across a lot of the states. However, it’s quite a flip from last year where Johnny boy, Jack Torrance reigned as King of the Horror Hill in Google trends- whereas this year, he only shines in Stephen King’s home state of Maine. You can compare last year’s result here.

For a more in-depth analysis, you can read the original findings over at Frontier’s website! Also, to check the data trends on the most used horror gifs on the interwebs, check out those results here!