I think I still have to go with the classics. It think Psycho is really brilliant story telling. The point-of-view shifts in the story are such cool devices to keep the audience on edge the whole time. You shift from Janet Lee's very flawed character Marion Crane who gets killed to Norman Bate who we can only stare at as a third party watching unable to get into that mind. Then we switch into The detective, just a pragmatic guy, trying to do his job, following Marion only to get killed by the unassuming Norman. Then what a terrible treat, we get to be Vera Miles -- Lila Crane -- who lets us relive the terror from part one of the movie all over again as the ultimate good guy trying to save someone we love -- in her case her sister. Finally we wrap all the way around again to Norman's point of view, and we are left still wondering, still bewildered by what terrible thing his mother did to form him into this enigma -- a great job of suspense and story telling.
What horror film has excellent story telling in your opinion?
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