Director Steven Soderbergh is probably best known for his ensemble movies with films like Magic Mike, Logan Lucky, and the Ocean’s franchise. He’s a pretty versatile director, and it looks like he’s going to be tackling a horror movie next.
Check out the eerie trailer for Presence:
The teaser is basically just a slow zoom in of a woman sleeping, but the captions just slowly get creepier with them reading “In this house, she will feel love,” then “In this house she will feel loss,” to “In this house she will feel fear”, and finally ending with “In this house she will feel a—“ then smash cut to the title reveal of Presence.
We don’t know anything about the plot of the movie, besides that there’s a mysterious presence in the house. It’s also said that the movie will also have a first-person perspective to add to the creep factor of just what this entity is.
If I’m being honest, the movie does feel a lot like Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming film Here which also has the same kind of premise of a story just taking place from one POV. However, Presence does move the camera around, and it definitely looks like it’s going to be a creepy movie.
Though Soderbergh isn’t best known for horror, some do say that the best horror films often come from directors that don’t specialize in it at all. Who would have thought that Jordan Peele would be such an effective horror filmmaker after a long background in comedy?
Watch out for Presence when it comes to cinemas this January 2025.
