That's one of the few movies that creeps me out and it is all due to Anthony Hopkins. No one does psycho better than him.

I saw it when I was a kid - my parents or someone took me to the theater. What were they thinking!

I also saw this, which traumatized me FOR LIFE:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069732/

Wait, Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, AND a creepy dummy? How have I not heard about this?

I remember that movie! I watched it on HBO years and years ago. Scared the bejeezus out of me. I think I watched Magic and The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane in the same evening. Traumatic.

The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane was a creepy one.

"That must be the almond cookies"

And it was on all the time for a while; it was cheap to broadcast because of a licensing gap.

Oh my god, The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane. This is like the creepy-nostalgia movies thread!

I watched both of these again recently.

Magic: Great acting by all, but the ending is lackluster. Hopkins's earlier Audrey Rose is arguably slightly better.

Little Girl: Jodie Foster is the only element worth watching, her acting is exactly what the character required. The rest of the cast ranges from passable to horrible. The plot is nothing special and the ending is sensible. Everything technical--sound, photography, editing--is pure hack.

Except for the first half of Magic, none of these have aged well at all.

"How have I not heard about this?"

Magic was released on November 8, eight days after Halloween and 2 weeks after Carpenter's Halloween. A spooky movie released after Halloween during the Hail Mary weekend (praying Ann Margaret would draw perhaps?) for a Thanksgiving hit? It bombed.