Just in time for Halloween, NEON has dropped the first full trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s POV ghost story Presence has dropped before its release in early 2025.
Directed by Soderbergh and written by Jurassic Park’s David Koepp, Presence stars Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang and Eddy Maday as a family who move into a new surburban house only to become convinced they are not alone.
West Mulholland (Dark Harvest) and Julia Fox (Uncut Gems) also star.
Previous Presence teasers haven’t given us much to go off, keeping things mysterious in classic ghost story fashion. But today’s new trailer ramps up the tension tenfold with some truly terrifying haunting scenes and suffocating sound design.
Since its premiere at Sundance earlier this year, Presence has been one of the year's most buzzed about horrors thanks to its unique first-person perspective – unusual for a haunted house tale. This technique is clearly popular this year, with In a Violent Nature also employing the POV perspective for its supernatural slasher.
The mysterious marketing approach is working like gangbusters when it comes to the horror films of this year, with NEON employing a similar technique for this year's Longlegs, and Focus Features keeping Robert Eggers' take on Nosferatu firmly in the shadows. Frankly, in an era where trailers tend to show too much, it's refreshing.
Presence hits theaters on January 24, 2025. Check out the new trailer below:
