Presence

"Radically subverts the haunted house genre."

"An innovative and grim nail-biter with more on its mind than the logline suggests."

"An intelligent film full of uncanny, sudden-chill moments."

"A smart quick-fire frightener."

"It’s so compact, smart, and elegant that it feels quietly momentous."

"A gamble that pays off massively."

"Turns the familiar into something fresh and frightening."

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

"Another half-diverting, half-satisfying Soderbergh bauble."

"A family drama disguised under a sheet."

"We don’t get to know much about the characters, and don’t care either way about their fate."

"A light, cerebral horror story."

"Operates with a nicely unpredictable rhythm."

"Deeply playful while never falling for the more hoary tendencies of the genre."

"In this haunted house horror you see what the ghost sees — and it's terrifying."

"Clever, but not at all scary."

"Doesn’t push boundaries enough to make for a compelling film."

"Yet another genre that Soderbergh has worked like a problem, and produced an elegant solution."

"A heady experiment that transcends the somewhat gimmicky-on-paper premise."

"Less of a horror movie or even a traditional ghost story than a drama about personal morality."