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when this movie came out - most people were never exposed to anything like it before.
like anything that old it sufferes when you compare it (for scares) to much that's come out since but there are still a few of us that remember the power this film had at the box office when it first hit the theatres.
thats also part of the problem .. by the time most of the younger people here see these classics - it's on a small TV screen in your living room .. not a big dark theatre surrounded by 300 terrified people. It diminishes the effect.
personally - i never found the film frightening ... but i thought it was a well acted, superbly directed, effective bit of filmmaking ..
and it - among other old classics - inspired countless of other films. It was a landmark in film history, let alone horror film history ..
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