Lucy Liu, Family Chased by Ghost

As a Halloween deal with, Neon launched a trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming horror movie Presence.

The film, set to hit theaters on Jan. 24, 2025, is a couple of household who strikes into a brand new home after which notices an unnerving presence within the dwelling. To make it much more unsettling, the movie is shot from the viewpoint of the ghost, and the digicam strikes all through the home as if the viewer is following the household.

The solid’s ensemble consists of Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Eddy Maday, Callina Liang and Julia Fox. It’s produced by Julie M. Anderson and Ken Meyers and David Koepp is the screenwriter, who additionally labored with Soderbergh on Kimi.

In his overview, The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney, praised the movie’s casting, saying it “couldn’t be higher” and that Liu is “terrific” within the position of Rebekah “permitting her to indicate some laborious edges however by no means making her such a monster that the wedding is questionable or stopping us from feeling for her when she suffers a crushing blow.”

Rooney continued to applaud the horror movie for taking dangers, “That is an enormously satisfying look ahead to haunted home film followers, favoring sustained nervousness over large scares and sensible results over digital trickery,” he wrote. “The diploma to which Soderbergh harnesses the mesmerizing energy of visible storytelling can’t be overstated.”

Neon acquired the worldwide rights to Presence quickly after it premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant earlier this yr.