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,

Often the camera operator on his own films, the Oscar-winning director of "Traffic" had an idea for a first-person horror movie, one that required some stamina.

"Will leave you gasping for air." "A spellbinding horror film." Neon has debuted a final official trailer for Steven Soderbergh's ghost story horror film Presence - following up the main official trailer released last fall.

They’re selling “Presence” as a horror movie when it’s something else entirely: a ghost story as told from the point of view of the ghost. As such, it’s more unsettling than scary, more dramatically gripping than nerve-shredding.