Ah, The Ring. When I saw it for the first time, right after the part where the woman finishes watching the tape at the cabin, the phone rang at my house. I laughed, but the truth is I for a split-second I was worried.
Similarly, while I was watching Scream for the first time (which, I admit, wasn't all that scary), all the lights went out in my house. I had to go out and switch back on the fusebox, but from the movie I had all sorts of crafty murderers in my mind, who had purposely turned it off so someone killable would be required to come outside. Went out there with a nightstick, I shit you not...