Freaks is creepy as all get-out, but I don't think it's too scary for a die-hard horror fan. Hell, there were episodes of Carnivàle that were more traumatizing.

Not to mention certain episodes of the X-Files

(cue Johnny Mathis)

Evil Dead II was pretty hilarious and has the best Hemingway-related visual gag ever.

I love the scene where the entire room starts laughing at Ash, and he starts joining in having gone completely bugfuck crazy (as in, John Crichton-worthy crazy) at that point.

I'm not sure how First Blood represents us, but then, neither do Sleepless in Seattle or Singles. So.

I'm not sure how First Blood represents us

But it is funny.

Without reading the list, I'm really hoping Escape From New York is on there.

And what the hell's up with calling October Sky "Rocket Boys"? That was the name of the book, not the movie, idiot.

I'd think Steel Magnolias would be the platonic ideal movie for Louisiana.

I'm cool with True Grit for Arkansas, and am cracking up over the choice of The Evil Dead for Tennessee rather than Nashville.

am cracking up over the choice of The Evil Dead for Tennessee rather than Nashville.

I was just coming back to post that.

Do the other movies seem representative of their states? Brokeback Mountain? Napoleon Dynamite?

I can't really speak to those as I've neither lived in, nor visited those states.

No Country For Old Men fits Texas fairly well, but why choose a gawd awful Deliverance-meets-Vietnam hackfest when there's All the King's Men, The Big Easy, Storyville, Eve's Bayou, Steel Magnolias, Albino Alligator, and whatever other ones I can't think of off the top of my head.

I think Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is probably the better and less insulting choice for Georgia as well.

I love the scene where the entire room starts laughing at Ash, and he starts joining in having gone completely bugfuck crazy (as in, John Crichton-worthy crazy) at that point.

Yes! Dancing with the lamp!