Florida Folk History

Movies & TV

  • Scarface

    Perhaps the most iconic film set in Miami—if not the State of Florida itself—the 1983 Oliver Stone film “Scarface” starring Al Pacino would forever change the…

  • Creature from the Black Lagoon

    Although most of the original Universal Classic Monster film “Creature From The Black Lagoon” was shot in California on the Universal backlot, the fantastic underwater sequences that…

  • Key Largo

    Key Largo is a classic 1948 film noir crime drama, adapted from a 1939 Broadway play of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart as…

  • American Horror Story—Freakshow

    One of my favorite Halloween binge-watches is “FREAKSHOW,” the fourth season of FX’s “American Horror Story,” which is set in the real-life town of Jupiter……

  • Jeepers Creepers

    The 2001 horror film “Jeepers Creepers” is one of the few scary movies both set in and filmed in Florida. The plot revolves around an…

  • Scream

    Did you know that the classic horror movie Scream was partially inspired by the Gainesville Ripper? The pathetic looking man in the second slide is…