I was 14 and we saw it at the drive in.
I was scared to death the whole way home.
It didn’t help much that my dad kept taking us on vacation to backwater weird places where everybody acted like the locals in the movie.
I got my mom and my aunt so worked up whilst camped in a seemingly deserted campground overlooking Pilot Mountain during a full moon rising that they insisted the guys pack up the trailers and find someplace else with “lights and civilization”.
LOL