Presence, the new film by Ocean’s 11 director Steven Soderbergh, takes place in a haunted house. Not the kind occupied by machete-wielding clowns or chainsaw-whirling psychos, but a family seemingly ...

Steven Soderbergh’s Presence radically subverts the haunted house genre - 4/5 Lucy Liu and Julia Fox star in a film that puts the viewer in the perspective of the ghost haunting a family’s new home ...

Here, it’s a flipped perspective on the haunted house story. We’re the ghost. Or the camera’s the ghost. Either way, we’re both voyeur and active participants in the narrative, as we watch ...

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India has a long tradition of haunted-house stories, but Rahul Sadasivan reinvents the genre’s tropes with Bhoothakaalam. The cries that echo through the house at night aren’t ghostly wails ...

Orin McCabe was a family man living a privileged life in the suburbs. Today, he’s condemned to death row for murdering his entire family ...

The movie offers a unique take on the haunted house genre by presenting the story from the perspective of the ghost inhabiting the home. The narrative follows a family moving into a new house ...