The tingly thriller “Presence” starts with a knockout premise: What if you told a ghost story from the perspective of the ghost? Each scene in Steven Soderbergh’s impeccably crafted film is a single take that glides silently from room to room observing what happens in an ordinary suburban house.

"I always operate the camera, but this was next level," the director says. "I’m really in there with the actors."

What makes “Presence” interesting is its point-of-view “gimmick.” It’s just the story that’s being told that’s somewhat hacky.

The menacing dark corner of a room. Hair standing up on the back of your neck. A whoosh of air past your arm. That uncanny sensation that just won’t quit. Plenty of us feel, at one time or another, like there’s an unseen someone — or something — watching us.