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

Steven Soderbergh often applies his brainy, process-based approach to new genres; with Presence, he tries his hand at ghost-story horror.

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

“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.

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The writer teams with Steven Soderbergh on this haunting story with a twist: The entire film is shot from the point-of-view of the ghost.

Presence holds its audience close with a nifty conceit in which Soderbergh is the eyes and ears of those watching and of his cast. May the adventurous, restless filmmaker keep on tinkering

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