{"id":156222,"date":"2025-01-15T09:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T09:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wegotthiscovered.com\/?p=1824407"},"modified":"2025-01-15T09:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T09:18:42","slug":"review-presence-uses-horror-tropes-to-create-something-utterly-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/15\/review-presence-uses-horror-tropes-to-create-something-utterly-unexpected\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: \u2018Presence\u2019 uses horror tropes to create something utterly unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many horror movies use floating cameras and first-person POV to tell a story, but Steven Soderbergh has used these familiar techniques to craft something remarkable with Presence<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Like many ghost movies, Presence<\/em> begins with a wealthy family moving into a new home. As days turn into weeks, it becomes clear there’s something weird happening in the house. Objects move by themselves, glasses shatter, and sometimes it’s possible to feel someone watching, although this force can’t be seen with human eyes. <\/p>\n

The novelty is how Soderbergh tells the story by using the camera to represent the field of vision of the haunting spirit. Every scene of Presence <\/em>is framed from the ghost\u2019s point of view, which means we get an unusual insight into what the apparition is experiencing and how it reacts to what happens inside the house.<\/p>\n

Let’s be clear. Since Sam Raimi decided to craft a first-person scene to materialize the invisible force in the woods of Evil Dead<\/em>, this technique has become a staple in horror cinema. Plus, the entire found footage subgenre relies on the concept we are seeing exactly what the person behind the camera saw. However, floating cameras are usually incorporated for no more than a few seconds. Furthermore, the found footage genre has the constraint of needing to make each scene possible to reproduce with in-universe cameras. <\/p>\n

Presence<\/em> doesn’t set any technological boundary for its gimmick, meaning the ghost can watch the family through unusual angles. In addition, Soderbergh\u2019s commitment to shooting everything with floating cameras makes Presence<\/em> a technical achievement, even when the story fails to impress.<\/p>\n

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