In 1989, both Steven Soderbergh and “Presence” screenwriter David Koepp had movies at the Sundance Film Festival. While the two didn’t meet that year — Koepp was not in attendance for his ...
Campfire tales of spectres, spirits, and spooks have been with us since Day One. Certainly, they've proved good fodder for the cinema.
Presence may not be your typical horror movie, but that doesn't mean it won't leave you a bit shaken up.
Koepp's writing is thorny and cuts deceptively deep, like a scrape that looks like a surface wound until it won’t stop bleeding.
The actor admits that Soderbergh's unusual way of capturing the film — told from a ghost's point of view — was a challenge to get used to: "it took the first day of shooting and a mini panic attack."
Steven Soderbergh often applies his brainy, process-based approach to new genres; with Presence, he tries his hand at ghost-story horror.
In 1989, both Steven Soderbergh and "Presence" screenwriter David Koepp had movies at the Sundance Film Festival. While the two didn't meet that year — Koepp was not in attendance for his "Bad Influence,
What if a ghost could tell its own story but not speak? That is the wildly compelling premise of Presence. Director Steven Soderbergh reteams with Kimi screenwriter David Koepp for an unconventional haunted house story,
The inventive director embraced POV filmmaking on “Presence,” his haunted-house film shot from the spirit’s perspective.
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,
Steven Soderbergh's Presence, starring Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, Eddy Maday and West Mulholland, is uniquely memorable.