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.

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

Steven Soderbergh never settles down. The director, who helped fuel the independent film revolution in the 1990s before hitting it big with the Ocean's 11 films, has always treate

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

Lucy Liu stars in the director’s clever haunted-house mystery that adopts the perspective of the specter.

Doing his own camerawork, the director gleefully enriches the haunted-house genre with a simple but ingenious device.

The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.” The filmmaker traps the audience in a beautiful suburban home, letting us drift through rooms with this curious being, in and out of delicate conversations as we (and the ghost) try to piece together a puzzle blindly.

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,