Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, Contagion) from a screenplay by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Panic Room), the haunted house chiller is shot entirely from the point of view of a spirit trapped inside a suburban home (i.

I love all things horror, but I've never been someone to seek out hauntings in real life. Precisely because I've seen so many scary movies and know not to mess with that stuff - I'm not going to be the person shouting about how not scared I am right before some creature/demon/ghost slaughters/possesses/terrifies me.

At this point, it becomes apparent that he had been the ghost all along. When the family had previously sought out the help of a psychic medium, she had told them that time works differently for spirits, and so it seems that ghost Tyler has essentially gone back in time to prevent his sister from being abused and murdered by Ryan.

Steven Soderbergh has been thinking about ghosts. Whether they exist, sure, but more so: Why? He wonders what would compel a spirit to remain on this earthly plane rather than advance to whatever lies in the great beyond — and whether they’re given a choice.

They’re selling “Presence” as a horror movie when it’s something else entirely: a ghost story as told from the point of view of the ghost. As such, it’s more unsettling than scary, more dramatically gripping than nerve-shredding.

This article contains spoilers for the film "Presence" In a time of twisty, “prestige” supernatural horror, the good, old-fashioned ghost story has fallen by the wayside. Thes