Old-school horror movies filmed around Miami

What's scarier than traffic on I-95? Maybe a serial killer caterer who serves up his victims for dinner.

• That's the plot of the 1963 horror film "Blood Feast," which was filmed in Miami Beach around the Suez Motel.

The big picture: "Blood Feast," which is considered a pioneer in gory "splatter" films despite receiving awful reviews, is one of a few notable scary movies to come out of Florida.

The 1972 zombie flick "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things" was also shot in Miami.

• One of the movie's actors said in an interview that shooting took place behind Matheson Hammock Park, at a since-demolished home in Coconut Grove and on an island near a sewer plant in Key Biscayne.
• Director Bob Clark would later go on to release "Porky's" and "A Christmas Story."

What else: "Day of the Dead" (1985) and "Jeepers Creepers" (2001) were filmed in Florida, too.