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I saw it when I was a kid, maybe 10 or 11. I grew up on horror movies: Child's Play and Nightmare on Elm Street were regular viewing for me. But I'd never seen anything in this "reality TV" style before, and that scared the hell out of me. I remember having nightmares about the final scene where the guy is standing in the corner of the room in the basement. I refused to go downstairs when the lights were off for months.
The best thing about this movie for me is that it spawned me and my friends to start shooting "The Ding Dong Ditch Project." It's exactly what it sounds like. Late at night we would sneak out with my parent's camera. One of us would knock on a random door while the other hid in a nearby bush or tree and recorded the person coming to see who was there. Then the person with the camera had to turn it to their face and pretend to cry and say "I'm so scared right now!" I wish I still had those videos.
It was probably a youth thing though. I distinctly remember my father saying "What a piece of shit" when it was over.
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