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Get Ready For A Haunted House Movie! Steven Soderbergh’s PRESENCE Hits Theaters On January 24 And Check Out The Brand New Trailer
It’s there before the family even moves in. It witnesses the family’s most intimate uncomfortable moments. It navigates the family’s new house at supernatural speed. It pays unusual attention to Chloe, the teenage girl who’s neither her mother’s nor her brother’s favorite. It wants — no, it needs —
something. And as time goes on, the presence pieces together how it might accomplish its goal. An
unusual, unnerving, and emotional thriller from writer David Koepp and director Steven Soderbergh.
In theaters on January 24 and starring Lucy Liu, Julia Fox and Chris Sullivan, watch the brand new trailer for PRESENCE.
The film sits at 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. In her Sundance Film Festival 2024 review, Tomris Laffly says the movie “takes us back to the timeless cinematic basics of sad ghosts with unfinished business and delivers something formally fresh that renews the supernatural genre.”
In a recent LA Times interview with Soderberg, the filmmaker doesn’t believe in ghosts, “an unlikely perspective from the son of a parapsychologist, his mother Mary Ann. Growing up in the South, the filmmaker witnessed “a revolving door of people who were very into paranormal experiences and ideas of visitation.” These days, his barometer for belief correlates to A&E series “Celebrity Ghost Stories,” on which famous people recount their encounters with the realm beyond.
“These stories are pretty wild,” he says in complete seriousness. “The Jeff Ross story is really disturbing.” The director says he once met the comedian and asked him about it.
“You could tell he was still carrying it around,” he says. “So if you ask me ‘Well, do you believe in ghosts?’ I can only say I believe Jeff Ross was telling the truth. Given what has been my life experience, that’s as far as I can go. I believe the people on that show are not lying.”
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