Steven Soderberg is back with his first movie since 2023’s “Magic Mike’s Last Dance.” His last offer, “Presence,” is a haunted house thriller that plays with the conventions of the horror bases by adopting the point of view of its central, unsolved ghost. The film continues Soderbergh’s ongoing fascination of playing with conventional form, and it marks one of the few times the director has entered the full -fledged horror area.
“Presence” is not the first big screen story to undermine viewers’ expectations. The genre has actually inspired more than a few unpredictable, jaw-release inventive films. Here are five you should see that, like “presence”, will keep you guess and anxious to see what happens next.
“The Others” (2001)
“The others” may not be the most famous movie Nicole Kidman Have ever played in, but among those who have seen it it is loved. It is also for good reasons. The psychological horror movie in 2001 from director Alejandro Amenábar is an unforgettable main trip that overfills with Gothic atmosphere. SATS 1945 Jersey follows the film a mother (Kidman) and her two children when they experience unnecessary paranormal events at their large, haunted property.
Like many classic ghost films, “The Others” is perhaps best known for its climate twist – one that recontextualizes the entire film and reveals the countless tragedy that lurks under the surface. But the movie works even when you know its secrets. The moody spell that it throws is as powerful in the case of subsequent clocks as it is the first time you sit through it.
“The Sixth Sense” (1999)
Its twist can be as widely known now as Luke Skywalker’s parenting, but “The Sixth Sense” still has the title of the most surprisingly ghost movie that Hollywood has ever produced. Writer director M. Night Shyamalan’s hit 1999 about a traumatized child psychologist (Bruce Willis) whose latest patient (Haley Joel Osment) claims to “see dead people” is an spotlessly designed, which affects a movie piece that has a bit of everything for everyone.
The first half, which mostly stays in the perspective of Willis’ Malcolm Crowe, works more like a gloomy adult drama than a horror movie. When “The Sixth Sense” shoots viewers into the world by Osment’s young Cole, the movie is suddenly filled with terror and fear. This displacement not only disoriented the viewers and gives “The Sixth Sense” a shocking midpoint, but it also paves the way for the film’s moving and extremely satisfactory last third, the power and elegance that the Shyamalan has not yet matched until 26 years later.
“Talk to me” (2022)
Danny and Michael Philippou’s functional registration debut, “Talk to me”, is a complete supernatural horror movie that sets their own rules and follows them all the way to their own, graceless ending. Located in contemporary Australia, the A24 thriller follows a group of teenagers who start experimenting with a cut, embalmed hand that allows them to communicate with spirits from the other side, but only after inviting them into their bodies. It is a bad idea that is intended to go wrong.
However, it is a credit to “talk to me”, but the moment when everything inevitably goes off the rails still hits with the bone-knowing force in a freight train. From that point “Talk to me” to spiral farther and further into itself – the blurring line that separates life from death until you leave and ask not only what is real and what is not, but whether the embrace of death is equally cold As you say. Many modern horror films have explored the blunt power power of grief in recent years, but few have elicited their hungry, seemingly endless appetite both or as viscerally and “talk to me.”
“A Ghost Story” (2017)
Most ghost films are told from perspectives on those who are haunted. Some, like some items on this list, try to make it unclear who is alive and who is dead. Others try to catch what is a ghost – and knowing that you are actually one – can look and feel. “Presence” does, and it makes “a ghost story.” The latter movie, written and directed by “The Green Knight” movie creator David Lowery, follows a man (Casey Affleck) who suddenly dies in a car accident and leaves his wife (Rooney Mara) a widow. However, instead of telling the story of Mara’s sad woman, a ghost story stuck ”with Affleck’s dead persona.
Lowery uses a literal white bedding with round black eyes that is cut into it to visualize his main person’s spectral state, and he follows him as time goes by and the world changes around him. Unlike most ghost movies, which try to scare and disturb you, “A Ghost Story” offers a more contemplative, introspective viewing experience. Once it has reached its time -bending conclusion, the film has emerged as a thought -provoking, deeply known Ruming about the importance of moving on – even when we don’t feel we can.
“The Uninvited” (1944)
It would be a mistake to make a list of must-see Ghost movies without including at least one black and white post, and “The Oinvited” is as inventive and good as any of them. Director Lewis Allen’s underestimated horror movie follows a British brother and sister (Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey) who buys an abandoned home by the sea just to discover that it is haunted by a female ghost, whose spectral screams understand them. Things only get more complicated when Milland’s Roderick falls in love with Stella (Gail Russell), a local girl who feels strangely drawn to her home, even though it is the place for her mother’s death.
“The Oinvited” continues to stack their mysteries on top of each other, all while delivering a cooling, brilliant horror after another. The film’s third act is punctured by turns as surprising and moving delimits the difference between an vengeful spirit and one whose final wishes have simply been fulfilled. The film is playful, romantic and sometimes really scary, and it deserves to be more famous than it is, which may be the reason why the criterion induced it in its collection years ago.