While Peele found that Alabamians were generally "very sweet," others weren't as enamored, like star Daniel Kaluuya who was understandably weirded out by the number of Confederate flags. (Which makes sense since any number greater than 0 is weird.) Also, the filming also came in the middle of the 2016 election, so there was an abundance of Trump signs littered around the town.
If that wasn't bad enough, the cast and crew were put up in a hotel that some consider "one of the most haunted places in the state of Alabama," Yup, the people making a horror movie about racism, directed by a Shining superfan, spent their off hours in a hotel (which one producer claimed was "very much the Overlook") supposedly haunted by the ghosts of Confederate soldiers – because, apparently, the hotel used to be a hospital during the Civil War. Why has no one made that into a movie?