Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh rings in the new year with thrills, chills, and a few possible shrills with Presence, a supernatural scary story from the fine maker of the Oscar-winning Traffic, the sexy yet thought provoking Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and your mom’s favorite movie, Magic Mike.
Starring Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, and Chris Sullivan, this slow-burn specter story follows a family who begin to realize that their comfy cottage might have a few lingering former residents who begin to take issue with the current tenants. Once again proving he is a master of any genre, Soderbergh is able to expertly craft a chilling narrative as he toys with the audience’s perception of conventional ghost stories. Using his deft talents as a filmmaker to draw on the gifts of his capable cast to devise an atmosphere of pure dread, Presence presents an elevated horror tale unique to the genre that raises the bar in what horror hounds have come to expect from their beloved haunted-house stories.
