Like home-invasion movies, haunted-house films tap into the universal fear ... to signify just how porous the line between the living and the dead is, and to emphasize the strain of Giddens ...

But more than anything, it’s a family therapy session filtered through a horror movie in a way that practically makes the spooky bits superfluous. The haunted-house aspect is almost a red herring.

Steven Soderbergh turns everything we know about a haunted house movie upside down in thought-provoking horror-drama Presence, as well as what we've come to expect from his work, too. Over the ...

The haunted-house thriller Presence has a formal conceit so clever, I'm surprised it hasn't ever been done or attempted before. Maybe another movie has done it that I'm not aware of. This is a ghost ...

The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.” The filmmaker traps the audience in a beautiful suburban home, letting us ...