My sister just picked up a copy of the short story, so I’ll have to borrow it from her. I did read it once, but that was about 20 years ago.
My experience seeing the 2011 version didn’t go like that, but I did get to see the 1982 version a few years ago (along with a few other 80’s horror films) at a drive-in theater in Atlanta. I got a kick out of it, since I’d never actually seen it in a theater before.