This article contains spoilers for the film "Presence" I n a time of twisty, “prestige” supernatural horror, the good, old-fashioned ghost story has fallen by the wayside. The

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.

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

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

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,