Same here! I was 12 when Poltergeist came out. One of the first films I watched independent of my parents taking me.
This was in Australia, and they had a 25 min short film about an English boarding school showing before the main feature.
Loved the contrast between suburban normalcy and...
Aliens (1986): for intensity, dread, and especially atmosphere, as well as the suspense, and the chills and thrills, one of my favourite theatrical experiences. So good I went 5 times to see this in the cinema.
Saving Private Ryan (1998): 2 of the most intense sequences (Omaha Beach and the...