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

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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 watch Heathers and you can see this attitude portrayed quite accurately.

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 Unted 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.
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 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 innocemce is never brought up in movie 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 making it all up.
A Nightmare On Elm Street preeches the wisdom of Ohio, "Listen to tge Children. When you find a pedo, MURDER his ass."