Presence 2024

A ancestors move into a new home - now I did like the meandering corridors and architecture of this ample plot, but bound we ascertain that it's a cardboard attenuate façade for four bodies who are disturbing to get over a trauma. Nope, annihilation new so far and, absolutely annihilation new to appear either as babe "Chloe" (Callina Lang) avalanche for the abandoned "Ryan" (West Mulholland) who is the new best acquaintance of her hunky, agreeableness chargeless and academician asleep brother "Tyler" (Eddy Maday). Pretty swiftly, they are at it but accompanying she starts to feel that she is actuality watched. Things move about on their own, her brother's allowance gets besmirched and alike the woman they accompany in to do the "Madame Arcati" affair thinks article isn't appropriate with the abode and it's old argent nitrate mirror. Next thing... Well you'll accept to watch it and see, but for me the aperture brace of account of hand-held POV photography absolutely put me off - abnormally it's use of the fish-eye, scene-stretching, lenses which bodies don't absolutely possess. It fabricated me feel hardly abhorrent and I couldn't adjudge if it was a bombinate cam or a actual sure-footed being gliding silently about the abode giving us a repetitive third affair angle into the family's lives. Mum (Lucy Liu) rarely puts her laptop down; dad (Chris Sullivan) array of lumbers about rudderless; the brother is a bit of an absorption gluttonous idiot and finally, the babe is a angry and arid jailbait aggravating to accord with some accoutrements about which we apprentice more, later. The parents appear beyond as a brace who would never in a actor years accept called anniversary added in the aboriginal place. At atomic the assembly doesn't try to baffle us with repetitive beheld effects, but what we are larboard with actuality is a chat abundant adventure that ends all too abruptly as if the abbreviate adventure it's acclimatized from aloof ran out of ideas. Disappointing, sorry.

"Presence challenges anecdotal conventions and leaves an enduring mark on the accurate mural of 2025. Steven Soderbergh's adventurous best to acquaint the adventure absolutely through the angle of the abnormal article proves to be a accident that pays off, carrying an immersive, different access that captivates the admirers until the actual end while accumulative the affecting affiliation to the circuitous family. The actuality of the performances and the alluring analysis of capacity like grief, loneliness, and accretion outweigh the repetitive alteration and accessory accidental subplots, after abrasive the all-embracing appulse and accuracy of the finale. It's the aboriginal absolutely abundant blur of the year." Rating: A-

Diehard admirers of abhorrence films accept generally complained that releases in this brand don’t get the affectionate of account they deserve, about as if they’re the Rodney Dangerfield of moviemaking. Unfortunately, it’s a acceptability that’s frequently adapted accustomed that abounding of these offerings are formulaic, predictable, annoying and needlessly gratuitous. The actualization of “smart” abhorrence films has helped to account this somewhat, imbuing these pictures with a amount of ability and appropriateness that has continued been approved but lacking. But, if these films absolutely appetite to acquire the affectionate of admire that their followers crave, these productions accept to get bigger at accomplishing what they do, yet the efforts that go into acquiescent such after-effects all too generally appear up short, as is the case in this latest activity from acclaimed administrator Steven Soderbergh. In all honesty, this attack at creating an animated adaptation of a prototypal apparitional abode adventure leaves abundant to be desired. Back a ancestors of four moves into their new burghal home, aberrant affairs activate to occur, about all of which affect Chloe (Callina Liang), a afflicted boyhood who afresh absent her best acquaintance beneath abstruse circumstances. But she’s not abandoned in her troubles – her parents, Rebekah (Lucy Liu) and Chris (Chris Sullivan), are accepting conjugal problems and her earlier brother, Tyler (Eddy Maday), is angry with behavioral and attitude issues. It’s cryptic what’s absolutely activity on with everybody, but again that’s area the botheration lies with this abundantly unfocused snooze, one that does little amends to its characterization as a abhorrence film. For starters, abundant of it is arid and slow, abnormally at the outset, demography its own candied time to get off the arena (almost bisected of the cine in fact). Again there’s the bruised and often-cryptic dialogue, which fails miserably at auspicious eyewitness assurance or affective the anecdotal along. And, conceivably best egregiously, the account drops the brawl back it comes to what movies in this brand are declared to do – accommodate the admirers with acceptable frights. In fact, there’s adored little in this blur that can be advised “scary”; it’s added suspenseful, if anything, but alike that is decidedly watered down. Finally, back “the big reveal” comes, it’s not so abundant alarming as it is doubtful and of ambiguous aftertaste – wholly inappropriate for and not decidedly in the spirit of what should aggregate a acceptable apparitional abode story. The aftereffect is a huge accurate disappointment, one that makes admirers admiration what the point of it all is declared to be. Admittedly, the blur appearance some arresting camera work, but it ultimately does little to afford allusive ablaze on the narrative, decidedly in “depicting” the abstruse attendance amenable for all of the abnormal affaire and its appliance to the characters or the absorbed abaft this story. I charge acknowledge to actuality somewhat baffled by the filmmaker’s captivation in this activity as its affection is a far cry from that of best of his antecedent efforts. Alike added so, though, “Presence” does little to move the aggravate in bolstering the acceptability of a brand attractive to accomplish a bigger name for itself. I’ve apparent scarier and added acute TV commercials than this woefully bloodless offering, and, because of that, it’s done little to change my assessment of movies of this ilk.

Written by David Koepp (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The Mummy 2017) and directed by Steven Soderbergh (Logan Lucky, Side Effects), Attendance has an arresting abstraction that doesn’t absolutely assignment in its execution. Attempt in three weeks about absolutely in one area with a $2 actor budget, Attendance is a artistic assertive that lacks a abiding impression. All of Attendance is from the angle of an article in a burghal house. The abnormal abstruseness acutely has no close-ups while the cinematography is altered in a way that seems like it was attempt with a slight fish-eye lens. A family, The Paynes – Rebekah (Lucy Liu), Chris (Chris Sullivan), Chloe (Callina Liang), and Tyler (Eddy Maday), moves into the abandoned abode arise at the alpha of the film. The snafued accord amid The Paynes is apparent as anon as they’re introduced. Rebekah is committing banking artifice and her bedmate Chris is advertent break or divorce. Rebekah additionally prioritizes her earlier son Tyler and his athleticism in pond over her adolescent babe Chloe who she about acknowledges. Meanwhile, Chris is anxious for Chloe back her best acquaintance abruptly died and she still hasn’t gotten over it. The abstraction of a abhorrence or abnormal blur from the angle of the apparition or article is crazily cool, but the affair actuality is that this attendance isn’t accustomed abundant to do besides attestant bodies accept sex and argue. There are accepted abnormal elements actuality like doors mysteriously aperture or closing on their own, a assemblage of books amphibian in the air one by one and actuality ample neatly on a adjacent desk, and shelves and posters actuality ripped off the wall. Before The Paynes arrive, the aboriginal arena of the blur is declared to be this article abnormality about an abandoned house. It’s alluring at aboriginal but becomes boundless and nauseating, which may represent the claustrophobic aspect of actuality trapped about with no escape but still not absolutely fun to watch. Presence appearance the aboriginal absolutely awful on-screen appearance of the year in Ryan (West Mulholland). Ryan is a accepted acquaintance of Tyler and a biologic dealer. He gets romantically complex with Chloe and tries to arise as airy and supportive. Cracks balloon up to the apparent aboriginal on as he loses his atmosphere generally and his circuitous about sounds like a villain attempting to explain their angry plan in detail to a chastened victim. The film's alteration is camp back best sequences either feel like one-take or aback about-face to atramentous afore the abutting scene. Attendance is presented like a agglomeration of scenes about stitched calm that aloof appear to accomplish a semi-coherent story. The acting in Attendance is fine, but two of the four Payne ancestors associates are complete assholes while the added two are pushovers. So it’s difficult to be invested in any of their appearance developments truly. The actuality of the article in the blur is acutely affiliated to affliction and trauma, which allows bodies who accept about died or accomplished article absolutely alarming to see or feel addition who has died. A average is brought into The Payne's home afterwards anybody but Chris stops authoritative fun of Chloe’s encounters with the entity. The average does little for the blur afar from solidifying that Chloe isn’t authoritative it up and cartoon absorption to an account in their active allowance that will be a allotment of the aftermost arena in the film. There is a altered abstraction in Attendance that hasn’t absolutely been explored in the brand with captivatingly altered cinematography and a accomplished casting to accumulate you intrigued. But there aren’t abundant absolute abhorrence elements in Attendance to be alarming and the ancestors ball is mostly arid afar from this article actuality a allotment of their lives. Presence is a close-but-no-cigar abstruseness with abnormal camera tricks and anybody staring off hardly to the larboard or appropriate to drive its faculty of mystery.

Presence (2024) takes a different access to the apparitional abode genre, putting you in the angle of the apparition itself. The adventure follows the Payne ancestors as they move into a new home, anniversary accustomed their own claimed struggles. Chloe, the daughter, is afflicted the accident of her best friend, while her mother, Rebekah, is ambidextrous with acknowledged troubles that aren't absolutely explained. The blur plays with the abstraction of an concealed attendance celebratory their lives, but it never absolutely confirms whether the apparition is absolutely the babe Chloe absent or addition else. While the abstraction is intriguing, the blur could accept explored the ghost's adventure added acutely rather than abrogation it so ambiguous. Steven Soderbergh’s administration is creative, application amphibian camera movements to accomplish you feel like you're silently afloat through the house, watching contest unfold. The cinematography adds to the awesome atmosphere, but the alteration choices, abnormally the continued atramentous transitions, arrest the flow. These moments breach captivation instead of abacus to the tension. That said, the way the blur manages to abstain assuming the camera abettor in reflections is impressive, proving the akin of affliction put into the visuals. Lucy Liu gives the arch performance, bringing abyss to Rebekah's character, while Callina Liang does a solid job as Chloe, capturing her affliction and confusion. The blow of the casting is appropriate but annihilation decidedly stands out. The calligraphy does a acceptable job at architecture astriction aural the family, admitting some curve feel a little too on the nose. The account works well, cautiously acceptable the awesome accent after cutting the film. Attendance is an absorbing watch with a beginning perspective, but it could accept benefited from a added dive into its apparitional abstruseness and a added aesthetic adapt to accumulate the pacing tight.

I'm accepting a adamantine time to accord this cine added than 5 stars. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't abundant either, aloof an boilerplate movie. Sadly it wasn't alarming at all. The alone affair I admired about this cine were amazing soundtracks. Those soundtracks adapted bigger abhorrence cine than this.