Presence is being hailed as a clever subversion of the haunted house horror sub-genre. But how does this supernatural drama hold up to the other films by director Steven Soderbergh?

Presence' writer David Koepp on the devastating reveal of who is the ghost in the house, working with Steven Soderbergh and returning to 'Jurassic World.'

Steven Soderbergh is a tough director to pin down. Now, the Oscar winner is taking on a ghost story called Presence. Soderbergh spoke with CBC's Eli Glasner about the precarious state of the industry and why he won't make another Ocean's film.

Credit: NEON Koepp expanded on this: "In the last 10 to 15 years, horror has really been prominent and changed. Gore and jump scares are huge. When people hear horror, they think of that. When I think of horror,

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

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

Koepp's writing is thorny and cuts deceptively deep, like a scrape that looks like a surface wound until it won’t stop bleeding.

The film stars Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Eddy Maday, and Callina Liang, and explores themes of trauma, family dynamics, and the supernatural.

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

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.

From Presence to Ocean’s 11, Soderbergh has directed every kind of movie but none ‘as good as The Third Man’, he says. So he keeps trying.

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,