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Presence Review: Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, And Chris Sullivan’s Film Is A Soul-Searching Spectacle
Apr 4, 2025
Presence isn’t a horror film so much as a philosophical haunting—a story about memory, moral weight, and the quiet ache of unfinished business. It doesn’t scare so much as it lingers. And by the end, when the ghost’s identity is finally revealed, the film’s real trick emerges: it makes you feel for the most invisible person in the room
Title: Presence
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Lucy Liu, Julia Fox, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, West Mulholland
Where: In theatres near you
Rating: 3.5 Stars
There are haunted houses, and then there is Presence, where the ghost holds the camera, haunts the mise-en-scène, and might even steal your empathy before the first jump scare. Steven Soderbergh- ever the cinematic shapeshifter, returns with a supernatural chamber piece that’s more Dante's The Divine Comedy than The Conjuring and invites you—quite literally—into the mind of the dearly departed.
Told entirely from a ghost’s perspective (yes, the camera is the ghost), the film unfolds in a deceptively perfect suburban home—an ideal backdrop for quiet chaos. But this is not just POV gimmickry. The spirit feels sentient, searching, and lonely, like a house cat trapped in an aspirational good-life catalogue. It drifts through kitchens and bedrooms, observing, eavesdropping, and sometimes even tidying up. Whether it mourns, judges, or yearns, it never reveals. But it feels—and, surprisingly, so do we.
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