This Is Maryland's Favorite Halloween Movie For Kids

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MARYLAND — An analysis of the top searched-for children’s movies during the frightening season shows that Maryland's favorite Halloween movie is "ET." The report, based on Google searches, breaks down the top searches by state.

Among all states, the top searched for movie was “Ghostbusters,” the favorite in 11 states.

The second choice among states was the fantasy film “Coco.”

Also big are “Scooby-Doo” (six states), along with “Beetlejuice” and “Nightmare Before Christmas” (five states each).

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The Halloween movie rankings were put together by Frontier Communications Corp., which provides internet, television and phone services in 29 states. The company did a grave-diggers’ dive into Google search data for children’s Halloween movies rated PG or below and selected the top 18 that are available to buy, rent, stream or watch on television. From there, data analysts ran a search for those 18 in every state and chose those with the highest volume for the ranking.

Some other findings:

“HalloweenTown,” the story of a 13-year-old who discovers she comes from a family of witches who live alongside other supernatural beings, is a favorite in Oregon. That’s not a huge surprise, given that parts of the 1998 movie were filmed in St. Helens, Oregon (incidentally, parts of “Twilight” were also filmed there).

“Casper” is based in Maine, but folks there are more interested in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” But the story of a kind young ghost who haunts the mansion in Maine is a favorite in Wyoming. Is it because the Cowboy State’s second-largest city shares the same name as the movie?

Nowhere was the search for “Ghostbusters” greater than in New York. The classic is set in New York City.

Residents of Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming know a good movie when they see it. Their top searches this year match those in 2017, Frontier Communications said.

Here are most searched-for children’s Halloween movies by state:

Alabama: “Beetlejuice”
Alaska: “FrankenWeenie”
Arizona: “The Nightmare before Christmas”
Arkansas: “Scooby-Doo”
California: “Coco”
Colorado: “Beetlejuice”
Connecticut: “Ghostbusters”
Delaware: “Monster House”
District of Columbia: “Hocus Pocus”
Florida: “The Haunted Mansion”
Georgia: “ET”
Hawaii: “Hotel Transylvania”
Idaho: “Coco”
Illinois: “Coco”
Indiana: “The Nightmare before Christmas”
Iowa: “Scooby-Doo”
Kansas: “Ghostbusters”
Kentucky: “The Nightmare before Christmas”
Louisiana: “The Haunted Mansion”
Maine: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
Maryland: “ET”
Massachusetts: “ET”
Michigan: “Ghostbusters”
Minnesota: “Ghostbusters”
Mississippi: “Scooby-Doo”
Missouri: “The Nightmare before Christmas”
Montana: “Scooby-Doo”
Nebraska: “Coco”
Nevada: “FrankenWeenie”
New Hampshire: “Beetlejuice”
New Jersey: “Ghostbusters”
New Mexico: “Coraline”
New York: “Ghostbusters”
North Carolina: “Scooby-Doo”
North Dakota: “Ghostbusters”
Ohio: “Coco”
Oklahoma: “Coco”
Oregon: “HalloweenTown”
Pennsylvania: “Ghostbusters”
Rhode Island: “The Haunted Mansion”
South Carolina: “ET”
South Dakota: “Monster House”
Tennessee: “Scooby-Doo”
Texas: “Hotel Transylvania”
Utah: “The Nightmare before Christmas”
Vermont: “Ghostbusters”
Virginia: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
Washington: “Coco”
West Virginia: “Hocus Pocus”
Wisconsin: “Ghostbusters”
Wyoming: “Casper”

Your Turn: What’s your go-to Halloween movie and why do you like it? Would you recommend it for children? Tell us what you think in the comments.

— By Patch National Editor Beth Dalbey

Studio artist rides E.T. figure to its new home in the film experience at Madame Tussauds New York for the anniversary of Universal Studios/Amblin Entertainment's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on June 10, 2014, in New York City. (Photo by Thos Robinson/Getty Images for Madame Tussa