Presence' writer David Koepp on the devastating reveal of who is the ghost in the house, working with Steven Soderbergh and returning to 'Jurassic World.'

Koepp expanded on this: "In the last 10 to 15 years, horror has really been prominent and changed. Gore and jump scares are huge. When people hear horror, they think of that. When

Lucy Liu stars in the director’s clever haunted-house mystery that adopts the perspective of the specter.

Steven Soderbergh often applies his brainy, process-based approach to new genres; with Presence, he tries his hand at ghost-story horror.

Film Review, a movie directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by David Koepp and starring Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang

"I always operate the camera, but this was next level," the director says. "I’m really in there with the actors."

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

Koepp's writing is thorny and cuts deceptively deep, like a scrape that looks like a surface wound until it won’t stop bleeding.

In 1989, both Steven Soderbergh and "Presence" screenwriter David Koepp had movies at the Sundance Film Festival. While the two didn't meet that year — Koepp was not in attendance for his "Bad Influence,