The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.”

Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh takes us there in “ Presence ,” a ghost story filmed entirely in a New Jersey home. Unlike most films in the genre, the movie, in theaters Friday (Jan. 24), is told solely from the point of view of the ghost.

The tingly thriller “Presence” starts with a knockout premise: What if you told a ghost story from the perspective of the ghost? Each scene in Steven Soderbergh’s impeccably crafted film is a single take that glides silently from room to room observing what happens in an ordinary suburban house.

Steven Soderbergh's "Presence" is an unconventional haunted house story told from the perspective of the ghost -- and we've got the details.

Doing his own camerawork, the director gleefully enriches the haunted-house genre with a simple but ingenious device.

Steven Soderbergh isn’t just the director and cinematographer of his latest film. He’s also, in a way, its central character. “Presence” is filmed entirely from the POV of a ghost inside a home a family has just moved into.

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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. And it’s directed by Steven Soderbergh, so you know it has to be smart.

The prolific filmmaker turns a supernatural thriller into an experiment in first-person perspective and a dysfunctional family drama that’d make Eugene O’Neill cringe