When was the first time you saw this movie? Where were you? What did you

I saw it in the late 70s on an early cable channel, I was younger than 10 years old. I watched it every time it came on after that, and I came to think of it as "the movie where everyone is screaming at each other".

Incidentally, there's a brilliant documentary called "Don't!" posted on YouTube made by a fan of this film and one of the other movies the director made, "Don't Open the Door", where you can see the original houses in the movies as they look today. Here's the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w7Q6ReLpFE

Early evening. About five years ago.

I didn't know anything about it, came on a cheap horror box set that I purchased.

I watched it without knowing a thing about it, other than the title. I enjoyed it. I didn't see the twist coming. I watched it a second time with a friend, and enjoyed it even more knowing how it ended. I spotted things I didn't the first time.

I actually saw this movie when it came out in the theaters in 1973. I was only ten. My father, unfamiliar with the then-new MPAA rating system, took me to see it, not realizing this was an R film, not appropriate for children. After that, he would not let me see an R film for another three years until I was 13.

I saw this film in a decrepit, long-gone grindhouse in a beat-up, litter-covered neighborhood in the mid-70s. It was daytime not at night (which was a good thing). This is how movies like this should be watched because sitting in the comfort of your home watching it on DVD or streaming doesn't have the real atmosphere. The very shabbiness of the production, the grimy house and the average to ugly looking people (except for Rosie Holitik, a Playboy model), elevated it to true nightmare status, something that slick horrors with attractive performers and Argento-level cinematography can't come close to.

I'd say back in 04 or 05. I was pretty young at the time. But as a child, I was obsessed with horror films. I actually discovered the film from buying a box-set collection, titled, The Vault of Horrors, at Best Buy. It was basically a collection of old low budget horror films. And it was really the only film I enjoyed out of the entire box set. At the time, I remember feeling pretty disturbed by the movie. And even though the film is super old, I was still able to recognize it as a unique horror film.