Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, Contagion) from a screenplay by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Panic Room), the haunted house chiller is shot entirely from the point of view of a spirit trapped inside a suburban home (i.

Lucy Liu stars in the director’s clever haunted-house mystery that adopts the perspective of the specter.

The "Presence" director/editor/cinematographer/camera operator goes deep on how he cracked shooting an entire film from a ghost's POV.

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

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

The entire film is shot entirely from the ghost's point of view, the audience haunting a family that has recently moved into a New Jersey home, not realizing that something was already living there. Critic Sean Burns says it's a great gimmick,

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Steven Soderbergh never settles down. The director, who helped fuel the independent film revolution in the 1990s before hitting it big with the Ocean's 11 films, has always treate

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Mark Wahlberg stars in the genre pic, which marks Gibson's first directorial effort in nearly a decade. Elsewhere, Steven Soderbergh's artsy haunted house thriller 'Presence' opened in 1,750 cinemas.

On a quiet weekend, even for the typically frigid movie-going month of January, the top spot went to the Lionsgate thriller starring Mark Wahlberg.