The entire film is shot entirely from the ghost's point of view, the audience haunting a family that has recently moved into a New Jersey home, not realizing that something was already living there. Critic Sean Burns says it's a great gimmick,
Lucy Liu & Chris Sullivan discuss working with Steven Soderbergh on the horror film 'Presence' (and his great series 'The Knick'), and compare his process with Quentin Tarantino's.
In his nomadic career, Soderbergh has been a big-screen name happy to work for Netflix and HBO. Presence, though, is clearly made to be watched in the cinema, with a crowd, preferably while being under 19.
There’s only so much that a person can hold before everything collapses.” With Presence now in theaters, Vogue spoke to Liu and Liang about preparing for their unconventional film—and their own relationships to the paranormal.
The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.”
Soderbergh's unique, creepy and moving ghost story will give you goosebumps - 4/5 The acclaimed director delivers a new spin on the haunted house film which makes for an eerily effective mystery
Steven Soderbergh often applies his brainy, process-based approach to new genres; with Presence, he tries his hand at ghost-story horror.
Steven Soderbergh's "Presence" is an unconventional haunted house story told from the perspective of the ghost -- and we've got the details.
Steven Soderbergh’s Presence radically subverts the haunted house genre - 4/5 Lucy Liu and Julia Fox star in a film that puts the viewer in the perspective of the ghost haunting a family’s new home
The intimate supernatural drama stars Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan as homeowners with an unexpected houseguest. With Presence, Steven Soderbergh Resurrects the Ghost Story: Review
“Presence” is a beautifully executed vision of a rather mediocre script. What makes it interesting is the POV “gimmick,” which Soderbergh demonstrates as a legitimate mode of cinematic storytelling. His camera movements take on such a human quality that we become emotionally connected to it as another character in the story.
Based on a true story, Brave the Dark stars British Academy Television award-winning actor Jared Harris ( Chernobyl) as Stan Deen, a high school English teacher who takes an interest in the reclusive and troubled Nathan Williams.