When I was 9 I was accidentally taken to see it at the cinema, because it was in a double feature with Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I discovered I was now too large to fit under the cinema seats.
For a month afterwards, I took flying leaps up onto my bed, and sat with the light on watching the bedroom door in terror, until I would fall asleep hours later, exhausted beyond horror.
I then discovered that reading helped the terror a little bit, and I started reading adult novels addictively from bedtime until I'd fall asleep of exhaustion about 1 pm.
Poltergeist is part of the reason I'm a nervous wreck today. Also why I'm a bookworm.
Oh, and I had platinum straight blonde hair too, which made it all worse, because I really identified.
Edited, Jun 12th 2007 7:48am by Aripyanfar