California

California is a U.S. state located along the west coast United States. It is the most populous state in the union. It is located on the West Coast of the United States, and is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the northeast, Arizona to the southeast, the Mexican state of Baja California to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Its four largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco.

In television
California is a provincial setting in several notable television programs. Such shows include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it's spin-off series Angel, Charmed, which shares several thematic elements with both shows, as well as Poltergeist: The Legacy and the short-lived Kindred: The Embraced. Buffy takes place in the fictional Southern California town of Sunnydale, while Angel is firmly entrenched in the nocturnal real-world environs of Los Angeles. Charmed, Poltergeist: The Legacy and Kindred: The Embraced all take place in San Francisco.

Another series that takes place in California is Night Stalker, which takes place in Los Angeles. The vampire series Moonlight also took place in L.A. The NBC/Syfy series She-Wolf of London originally took place in London, England, but the back-end of the series, retitled "Love and Curses" shifted the cast to L.A. beginning with "Curiosity Killed the Cravitz".

Points of Interest

 * Antonio Bay: Antonio Bay is a seaside fishing hamlet located in Northern California. It was founded in the year 1880, the same year that the ship the Elizabeth Dane crashed upon the rocks of the bay. One-hundred years later, the ghosts of those who died on the Elizabeth Dane returned to haunt Antonio Bay.


 * Beacon Hills: Beacon Hills is a town in Northern California and is located in Beacon County. Points of interest include Beacon Hills High School and the Beacon Hills Preserve. Teenager Scott McCall suffered great tragedy in Beacon Hills after being bitten by a werewolf in the Beacon Hills Preserve. Surviving the bit, Scott was soon afflicted with the curse of lycanthropy and became a veritable "teen wolf".


 * Beverly Hills: Beverly Hills is an affluent city in the western part of Los Angeles County, California. Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together entirely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles. The area's "Platinum Triangle" of wealthy neighborhoods is formed by Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Bel Air and Holmby Hills.


 * Burbank: Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County, California. Burbank is located in two distinct areas, with its downtown, civic center and key neighborhoods nestled on the slopes and foothills that rise to the Verdugo Mountains, and other areas located in flatlands at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, 12 miles (19 km) north of Downtown Los Angeles.


 * Drago: Drago is a small, secluded town in southern California. It is named after Draga, an isolated region in Romania. Like Draga, Drago was a communal haven for a secret society of werewolves. In 1988, Richard and Marie Adams owned a cabin in the woods called Wilderness Cottage. Marie and her friend Janice Hatch began investigating a string of strange occurances which centered around the nervous breakdown of a nun named Sister Ruth Brooks. Their search uncovered the Satanic werewolf coven and the two women made a final stand against the werewolves at the Bell Tower of Drago.


 * Hollywood:
 * Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States, situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonymy of American cinema. The nickname Tinseltown refers to the glittering, superficial nature of Hollywood and the movie industry.


 * Jericho:
 * Jericho is a small, unincorporated town in California. In 2005, the ghost of Constance Welch, a "Woman in White" haunted a five-mile stretch of road, claiming the lives of men who had been unfaithful. Sam and Dean Winchester investigated the matter and reunited Constance's spirit with those of her two dead children.


 * Los Angeles:
 * Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.96 million and spans over 498.3 square miles (1,290.6 km2) in Southern California. During a zombie plague, four survivors who referred to themselves as Tallahassee, Columbus, Wichita and Little Rock journeyed to Los Angeles in the hopes that the amusement park known as the Pacific Playland might be a zombie-free environment. They were wrong. Although the park was infested with zombies, they managed to kill every single one and move on


 * Manzanita Springs: Manzanita Springs was an area of wine country located in Sonoma County, California. It was here that the Luna family made their fortune with their vineyards during the 1800s. In 1985, Manzanita Springs was the sight of a massacre perpetuated between two warring clans of vampires - the Ventrue and the Brujah. Ventrue leader Archon Raine sent his enforcer Julian Luna to burn out a nest of Brujah inhabiting the winery. Julian was bloodthirsty, but some Brujah survived. Ten years later, Julian returned to Manzanita Springs and the surviving Brujah sought revenge against him. Despite their ambush and overwhelming numbers, Julian managed to survive the attack.


 * Modesto: Modesto is the county seat of Stanislaus County, California. With a population of approximately 211,156 as of April 2009, Modesto ranks as the 16th largest city in the state of California. Modesto is located in Northern California, 92 miles east of San Francisco, 68 miles south of the state capital of Sacramento and 66 miles west of Yosemite National Park.


 * Oakland: Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. Originally incorporated in 1852, Oakland is the county seat of Alameda County and is a central hub city for a region of the San Francisco Bay Area known as the East Bay.


 * Palm Springs: Palm Springs is a desert city suburb of Riverside and San Bernardino in Riverside County, California, approximately 37 miles east of San Bernardino, 111 miles (177 km) east of Los Angeles and 136 miles (225 km) northeast of San Diego.

Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park.
 * Palo Alto:


 * Pasadena:
 * Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena City College (PCC), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (the leading robotics and spacecraft design and manufacturing NASA center), Art Center College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, California School of Culinary Arts Pasadena, the Norton Simon Museum of Art and the Pacific Asia Museum.


 * San Diego:
 * In 1978, the President of the United States sent a special task force led by Mason Dixon to San Diego to infiltrate a horde of "killer tomatoes" that had been reported terrorizing the San Diego area. San Diego was also where a genetically cloned Tyrannosaurus Rex was seen rampaging through the city streets.


 * San Francisco:
 * San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated large city San Francisco is also the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the larger San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco is a popular international tourist destination, renowned for its chilly summer fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture and its famous landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Chinatown.


 * San Jose:
 * San José is the third-largest city in California and the tenth-largest in the United States. As the county seat of Santa Clara County, it is located in the southern end of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region commonly referred to as Silicon Valley. Once a small farming city, San Jose became a magnet for suburban newcomers in new housing developments between the 1950s to the present, and is now the most populous city in the United States north of Los Angeles and west of Chicago.


 * Santa Barbara:
 * Santa Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the sea.


 * Santa Cruz:
 * Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the United States of America. It is located on the northern edge of the Monterey Bay, about 72 miles south of San Francisco.


 * Santa Mira: Located in Northern California, this was the location of the corporate headquarters of the Silver Shamrock Company.


 * Santa Monica:
 * Santa Monica is a city in western Los Angeles County, California, USA. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and Venice on the southeast.

Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Clara County, California, United States and is the home of Stanford University. Its resident population consists of the inhabitants of on-campus housing, including graduate student villages and the "Faculty Ghetto" of single-family homes owned by their faculty inhabitants but located on leased Stanford land. A residential neighborhood adjacent to the Stanford campus, College Terrace, featuring streets named after universities and colleges, including Oxford, Harvard, Yale and Columbia, is not part of the Stanford CDP but of the city of Palo Alto.
 * Stanford:


 * Twin Forks:Twin Forks was a small town located near the village of Drago. Most of the townsfolk had migrated to Drago or were lured there by the town's werewolf community. Located in Twin Forks was a church, the Twin Forks Hotel and the Twin Forks City Hall. Janice Hatch and Tom Billings went to Twin Forks to investigate the history of Drago and a string of strange occurrances taking place in the town.


 * Venice: In 1971, crippled scientist Doctor Durae teamed up with the vampire Dracula in an effort to revive the Frankenstein Monster. Durae maintained a laboratory in Venice located beneath a horror house attraction called Doctor Durae's Creature Emporium.

Films that take place in California

 * 30 Days of Night: Dark Days
 * A Bucket of Blood
 * Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
 * Amityville: The Evil Escapes
 * Amityville 1992: It's About Time (1992)
 * Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
 * Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
 * Blood Bath
 * Blood Scarab
 * Blood of Dracula's Castle
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 * Camp Fear
 * Candyman III: Day of the Dead
 * Constantine
 * Countess Dracula's Orgy of Blood
 * Craft, The
 * Critters 3
 * Crocodile
 * Crow: City of Angels, The
 * Dark, The
 * Dead Heat
 * Dracula vs. Frankenstein
 * Drag Me to Hell (2009)
 * First Power, The
 * Fog, The
 * Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later


 * House
 * Full Eclipse
 * Hillside Cannibals
 * The Howling
 * Legion
 * Leprechaun 2
 * Lost Boys, The
 * Lost Boys: The Tribe, The
 * Lost Boys: The Thirst, The
 * Killer Pad
 * Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (partially)
 * New Nightmare, Wes Craven's
 * Nick Knight
 * People Under the Stairs, The
 * Prophecy, The
 * Predator 2
 * Puppet Master
 * Puppet Master 4
 * Scream
 * Scream 2
 * Scream 3
 * Snakes on a Plane (partially)
 * Species II
 * Spiders
 * Teen Wolf
 * Toolbox Murders
 * Troll
 * Valentine
 * Zombieland

TV programs that take place in

 * American Horror Story
 * Angel
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 * Charmed
 * Kindred the Embraced
 * Moonlight


 * Night Stalker
 * Poltergeist: The Legacy
 * Teen Wolf: The Animated Series
 * Teen Wolf

Comics that take place in

 * Dark Days
 * Werewolf by Night, Volume 1

Books that take place in

 * I Am Legend

Characters from California

 * Adam Garou
 * Adrian Harris
 * Alexandra Serris
 * Alice Hardy
 * Allison Argent
 * Amber Waves
 * Amelia Blake
 * Andy Trudeau
 * Ben White
 * Bill Neill
 * Billy Loomis
 * Blayne Moll
 * Boyd
 * Buck Cowan
 * Buffy Summers
 * Caitlin Byrne
 * Casey Becker
 * Cassie Blake
 * Cash
 * Charles Gunn
 * Charlie Barton
 * Chris Halloran
 * Cole Turner
 * Constance Langdon
 * Cotton Weary
 * Daedalus
 * Darryl Morris
 * Derek Hale
 * Dewey Riley
 * Doctor Durae
 * Donna Warren
 * Ellie Myers
 * Emile Hirsch
 * Erle Kenton
 * Eddie Fiori
 * Eddie Quist
 * Erica/Teen Wolf
 * Eve
 * Frank Kohanek
 * Fred Francis
 * Gale Weathers
 * Gerard Argent
 * George Waggner
 * Groton


 * Harold Howard
 * Harmony Kendall
 * Horace Favor
 * Isaac Lahey
 * Jackson Ward
 * Jackson Whittemore
 * Jacob Sterling
 * Janice Hatch
 * Jenny Templeton
 * Jeremy Burns
 * Jerry Warren
 * Jesse McNally
 * John Constantine (film version only)
 * Jonathan Levinson
 * Julian Luna
 * Karen White
 * Kate Lockley
 * Katie Enslin
 * Laura Hale
 * Laura Russell
 * Lew Landers
 * Lillie Langtry
 * Lily Enslin
 * Lindsey McDonald
 * Luthor Morris
 * Lydia Martin
 * Marie Adams
 * Marsha Quist
 * Max Dire
 * Maxwell Grant
 * Melissa McCall
 * Mike Enslin


 * Nancy Archer
 * Natalie French
 * Oliver Simon
 * Owen Thurman
 * Paige Matthews
 * Patrick Channing
 * Patty Halliwell
 * Penny Halliwell (originally from Massachusetts)
 * Peter Hale
 * Phillip Russell
 * Phoebe Halliwell
 * Piper Halliwell
 * Prudence Halliwell
 * Randy Meeks
 * Raymond Corvus
 * Richard Adams
 * Richard Wilkins III
 * Ron Updyke
 * Russell Logan
 * Russell Winters
 * Sam Newfield
 * Sasha Luna
 * Scott Howard
 * Scott McCall
 * Sheila Martini
 * Sidney Prescott
 * Sonny Toussaint
 * Steven Orth
 * Stu Macher
 * T.C. Quist
 * Tatum Riley
 * Terry Fisher
 * Tess Seaton
 * Tom Billings
 * Trevor Lockley
 * Victoria Argent
 * Walter Paisley