Steven Soderbergh's new ghost story is modest, but it's so compact, smart, and elegant that it feels quietly momentous.
There is a unique concept in Presence that hasn’t entirely been explored in the genre, especially when combined with ...
The following contains spoilers for Presence, in theaters now. Horror tends to be at its best when it’s blended with other ...
Horror fans feasted well in 2024 with the year capped off by the release of Nosferatu (even if UK viewers had to wait until ...
The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s 35th feature, waiting in a vacant house for its buyers, ambitious Rebecca ...
The haunted-house thriller Presence has a formal conceit so clever, I'm surprised it hasn't ever been done or attempted before. Maybe another movie has done it that I'm not aware of. This is a ...
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, “Presence” tests the limits of the horror genre with an emotionally thrilling ghost story.
NEON. Photo by Peter Andrews. Copyright The Spectral Spirit Company By Michelle McCue and Marc Butterfield Director Steven Soderbergh has returned to the big screen with a riveting tale of a ...
Now, it’s time to discuss the “gimmick” of the movie. This film is told from the point-of-view of the presence. Well, that’s what it feels like although the camera basically sits there and ...
The writer Christopher Isherwood put it this way, in his novel “Goodbye to Berlin”: “I am a camera with its shutter open, ...
The Presence is invisible until the very end, and given character by fish-eye distortion as it takes gliding corners mirrored by the 1920s house’s curved cornices. Walls suffocatingly tighten around ...