A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.
Direction
Soderbergh's invisible ghost cinematography is genuinely deranged.
Editing
The POV restraint builds dread you can't escape.
Acting
Callina Liang carries teenage grief like a physical weight.
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Callina Liang
Chloe
Lucy Liu
Rebekah
Chris Sullivan
Chris
Eddy Maday
Tyler
West Mulholland
Ryan
Julia Fox
Cece
Lucas Papaelias
Carl
Natalie Woolams-Torres
Lisa
Benny Elledge
Contractor
Daniel Danielson
Painter
Jared Wiseman
Painter
Robert M. Jimenez
Painter
Nathaly Sabino
Nadia (uncredited)
Steven Soderbergh
The Presence (Uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Soderbergh operated camera himself, literally embodying the ghost's POV with an iPhone 15 Pro Max rigged to his body.
The film inverts haunted house logic: we're trapped WITH the ghost, sharing its helpless watching, its desires, its violence.
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