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I love a good scary story, and I found Paranormal Activity anything but. I just thought it was a terrible movie all the way around. I'm 40 and my wife is older than me, and we both regretted wasting the time seeing that movie.
On topic, I didn't see The Excorcist until I was a little older. But, I did have the advantage of being a horror movie fan from a very young age. My sister was 12 years older than me, and both she and my mom loved horror.
So, I got heavy doses of it from about the age of 5 on.
Mostly, older movies played on Saturday nights on Creature Feature, but every now and then I could bug my sister enough to get her to take me to the theater with her.
The first time I saw the Excorcist, I was already a horror veteran so to speak, and I found it pretty frightening. That movie didn't need the Boo! factor IMO. It was so creepy, and the fact that I had heard it was based on true events, I was kinda freaked that this could possibly happen to me or someone I knew in real life.
I was probably 13 or 14 the first time I saw it, still young enough to have that ability to believe some of what I was seeing, but schooled on horror well enough to be cynical.
But, yeah...it scared me. I have the original now and the one with the "crab walk" scene added, and it's still near the top of my favorite movie list, just for the scare factor it offers. Great film.
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