South Carolina

The most popular Halloween kids’ movie in SC, according to Google. What about other states?

Does your family get into the festive spirit to celebrate the holiday season?

If you’re looking for some classic Halloween movies to explore for your family, why not check out the most popular one in South Carolina?

USDish, an authorized reseller of Dish, conducted their second annual report on the most searched spooky kids’ movies in America to find out which movie is the most popular in each state.

This year, “Scooby Doo” won as the most searched Halloween movie for kids in South Carolina.

Not only was “Scooby Doo” popular in the Palmetto State, but the film franchise came in as the most popular overall among the states with a total of 13 states searching it the most.

A map provided by USDish displaying the most searched Halloween movies for kids this year by state.
A map provided by USDish displaying the most searched Halloween movies for kids this year by state. Submitted

As for the second most searched movie in America, button eyes and creepy tales seem to win as 11 states searched for the movie “Coraline.”

Halloween children’s classic “Halloweentown” only made the most popular list for the state of Oregon. This may not come as a surprise for fanatics of the film, as it was filmed in St. Helens. The city of St. Helens even hosts a festival named the “Spirit of Halloweentown” in memory of the film franchise that runs annually from mid-September until Halloween night.

Other kids’ movies included in popular searches per state include, “Beetlejuice,” “Hocus Pocus,” “Coco,” “Ghostbusters,” “Gremlins,” “E.T.,” “The Witches,” “The Addams Family” and “Hotel Transylvania.”

For the study, USDish identified each state’s most internet-searched spooky movie for kids using Google and gathered a list of kids’ Halloween movies that were rated G or PG. The site then used SEMRush, an online ranking data and keyword research platform, to find the movies out of the list that had the highest number of keyword searches and then input the selected movie names into Google Trends to find each state’s most searched movie for children for this year’s Halloween festivities, according to USDish.

Sarah Claire McDonald
The Island Packet
Sarah Claire McDonald worked as a Service Journalism Reporter for The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette. She specialized in writing audience-focused, unique, spotlight stories about people, places and occurrences in the Lowcountry. Originally from the Midwest, Sarah Claire studied news media, communications and English at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she graduated in 2021.
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