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

“Presence” is a beautifully executed vision of a rather mediocre script. What makes it interesting is the POV “gimmick,” which Soderbergh demonstrates as a legitimate mode of cinematic storytelling. His camera movements take on such a human quality that we become emotionally connected to it as another character in the story.

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

Often the camera operator on his own films, the Oscar-winning director of "Traffic" had an idea for a first-person horror movie, one that required some stamina.

Presence see's director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp deliver a ghost story unlike quite any other.