In Presence, the brand new haunted home horror movie by Steven Soderbergh and author David Koepp (Jurassic World: Rebirth), Julia Fox performs an actual property lawyer who unwittingly sells a household a house suffering from a sadistic ghost. However in response to the actress, not solely are ghosts actual, she lives with one in excellent concord.
In an look on Late Evening with Seth Myers (by way of Leisure Weekly), Fox revealed that when she initially bought her dwelling, she had no concept it was haunted. “It was humorous: It begins like all ghost story. I felt a pull towards this home, and it was a full moon, after which I used to be like, ‘That is it. I am getting the home…'”
Fox defined that after she and her 4-year-old son moved all their issues into the home, they found a message from the earlier house owners within the basement. “…there was a bit letter from the earlier house owners principally saying, like, ‘That is Magnificence.’ And it had all her issues: her hairbrush, her mirror…”
Not like most haunted home horror movies like Presence, Poltergeist, or The Conjuring, Fox’s ghost is pleasant.
“She’s great. She’s just like the matriarch of the home… She watches over us and we love her. My son really sees her. I do not see her, however my son will say, ‘I noticed her, I noticed her.'”
Presence, from studio NEON, additionally stars Lucy Liu, Callina Liang, Chris Sullivan, and Eddy Maday. At present, the movie has a 91% recent score on Rotten Tomatoes, with the vital consensus studying, “A slow-burning spectral thriller, Presence reaffirms that Soderbergh performs with type as deftly as he flits between genres.”
The movie is about to hit theaters on Jan. 24, 2025.
Fox Is not Alone in Her Perception of Ghosts
Fox is not the one forged member of Presence — which is impressed by the fact TV present Movie star Ghost Tales — to have had encounters with the paranormal. Liang, who performs Chloe within the movie, advised Vogue of her experiences with a ghost in her dorm room whereas at drama faculty in New York.
“The dorm I lived in was a former senior dwelling transformed into scholar housing. I wouldn’t say it was haunted, however there was positively a spirit. I might get up from naps to writing on the wall, telephones can be taken out of their chargers…stuff like that. At first, I used to be actually scared, however I realized how you can coexist with the spirit, which was fascinating as a result of Chloe was by no means afraid of the presence both, [unlike] the opposite characters within the movie.”
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In the identical interview, Liu additionally weighed in together with her ideas on the supernatural, saying,
“We’re all souls that exist in these corporeal our bodies. Even when our our bodies are not in a position to maintain us, these souls nonetheless exist, and they should go elsewhere. Generally, not not like in ‘Presence,’ they might not have discovered a house, or they’re not keen to depart, in order that they stick round. Individuals get a sense once they stroll into an area that they are saying is haunted, however it’s actually due to [what I’ve just said].”
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Presence is a dramatic horror film following a household that strikes into a brand new suburban home solely to develop more and more sure they aren’t alone.
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January 24, 2025
- Runtime
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85 Minutes
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Lucy Liu
, Chris Sullivan
, Callina Liang
, Eddy Maday
, West Mulholland
, Julia Fox - Studio
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Neon