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Originally Posted by SerialKiller
My older brother & sister were babysitting me when I was 3 years old. They had me watch The Exorcist with them that night. It traumatized me so badly that I spent 3 months sleeping with my parents, right in between them. If we didn't leave the lamp on I went into hysterics. I had never seen a scary movie before that. I didn't sit down & watch it again until I was about 21, & it still gave me the creeps. It didn't keep me awake or anything, it was more of a feeling like this still creeps me out..... unpleasant childhood memories. I feel like it's still remembered as "so scary", because there wasn't anything else like it before it came out. To kids today it's probably nothing, but in the 70's it terrified a lot of people who weren't desensitized just yet.
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I can say that children of today do have a lower standards on what is scary but I am not like that I find the original The Haunting( 1963) to be very scary.