Over Zoom I spoke to Koepp about writing within the confines of the film’s single point-of-view, the value of what’s left out of a story, dreams and screenwriting, and his thoughts on the business of screenwriting today. Presence opens January 24, 2025 from NEON.

Steven Soderbergh's "Presence" is an unconventional haunted house story told from the perspective of the ghost -- and we've got the details.

Over the course of his nearly four-decade career, Steven Soderbergh has just about done it all—including, now, made a horror film. Presence is a ghost story like no other, assuming the first-person perspective of a specter that haunts a suburban clan that’s moved into its residence.

Steven Soderbergh’s Presence radically subverts the haunted house genre - 4/5 Lucy Liu and Julia Fox star in a film that puts the viewer in the perspective of the ghost haunting a family’s new home

The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh's chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama "Presence."

Presence is a more delicate and nuanced haunted house movie that takes a more elevated route to horror as opposed to more gory ghost stories like 13 Ghosts or The Haunting in Connecticut. If you’re looking to watch something with fewer horrific images and jump scares while you wait to see Presence, check out these similar movies!

Steven Soderbergh’s directorial credits include Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, and Magic Mike. His latest, Presence, is a supernatural thriller shot entirely in the first-person perspective using a Sony Alpha 9 III mirrorless camera.

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