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I feel like I got cheated out of the full impact of "The Exorcist" because I first saw it at age 15 in the summer of 1980 as the supporting half of a drive-in double bill with "The Shining." The Shining scared me far more than The Exorcist. I went home and had nightmares about the old lady in the bathtub and the blood-curdling Penderecki music on the soundtrack, and I had to pull back the shower curtain to check for the soggy old bat every time I went to the bathroom until about Easter, 1981. I never thought much about The Exorcist at all.

Same here!!! I rented this movie many moons ago on VHS when they had tapes; I was way too young to rent this! Anyways, it was pouring rain outside and my friend and I watched the movie at my parent's house and we were both crying and shaking because we were so scared. I was only 12 years ago. I was too ashamed to tell my parents I saw this movie. That night when I had to go to bed, it was the worst. I kept my light on and fall asleep on the floor with a blanket and a pillow. I was terrified my bed was going to jump up and down too. That was one of the scariest parts of the film for me....

I remember seeing the censored version of The Exorcist on network TV when I was a kid in the late 70s.

It scared the shit out of me! Never had I seen a movie like this. This movie scared me right down to my soul. It kept me up for many nights. It was downright disturbing for reasons beyond the visuals.

I think I saw almost every hit movie in the 70's except this one. I joined the Air Force in 1983, came home on leave and The Exorcist was on HBO late at night. I watched it on a console TV I was surprised it didn't scare me at all. I did think the ending scene was fantastic but the overall movie was kinda "meh".

Not after SNL and Richard Pryor spoofed the movie with the quote, "Your mother sews socks that smell" LOL

When it came out people fainted during the movie. Then they all thought they were possessed. Just shows idiocy knows no generation.

No, I loved the movie and wanted to own it. Saw it for the first time when I was in my late teens/early twenties but by then I was fairly desensitised to horror movies. Still love a good creepy horror movie though. That said, there have been times in the past where I may have watched it last thing and then been in bed and imagined being in the girl's situation as if it could feasibly happen, and found it's taken a while to get to sleep. It's an unnerving reality that it brings to life, the idea of being possessed by an evil demon.

Even the commercials terrified me when I was a kid. It seemed to come on TV every year around Halloween, and I'd see the commercials and get scared all over again.