Or are you? Like home-invasion movies, haunted-house films tap into the universal fear of being attacked in the one place you’re meant to feel the most secure. Unlike home-invasion movies ...

But more than anything, it’s a family therapy session filtered through a horror movie in a way that practically makes the spooky bits superfluous. The haunted-house aspect is almost a red herring.

Often in haunted house movies where a new family moves in and starts sensing strange things, the ghost knows exactly what they want — usually their house back. In this one, the presence doesn ...

The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.” The filmmaker traps the audience in a beautiful suburban home, letting us ...

Movie Review: Steven Soderbergh’s eerie haunted house drama ‘Presence’ packs a punch Often in haunted house movies where a new family moves in and starts sensing strange things, the ghost ...

Often in haunted house movies where a new family moves in and starts sensing strange things, the ghost knows exactly what they want — usually their house back. In this one, the presence doesn ...

The presence needs something from the family, and how it conveys its request becomes the movie’s central mystery. Presence is no ordinary haunted house movie. Soderbergh shoots the film from the ...