The Exorcist and I only saw the TV broadcast never the R rated original version. And did watch in its entirety but I saw start and finish. Seems to have been on CBS in 1980. Never wanna see it again.
Speaking of broadcast television, I was never more terrified than I was as a 10-year old in 1979 watching Salem's Lot as a made-for-TV miniseries. I was terrified for months afterwards, especially if I went to bed and forgot to close my window shades.
Like many horror films, it dated poorly when I watched it again several years later as an adult.
LOL! I remember watching that too as a little boy in 1980. It really did scare me too.
Yep, that is the one I saw when I was eleven. Watched it with my older brother. So scared I could not stop watching even the commercials. It was brutal.