Presences Steven Soderbergh and David Koepp on ghosts, horror, and hating winks

Centering on a ghost as it haunts a family in a cozy suburban home, Presence might seem like a horror movie in the vein of Poltergeist, The Amityville Horror, or The Conjuring. But in their follow-up to the tech thriller Kimi, longtime friends director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp say that Presence was never conceived of as or intended to be a horror movie. "It's a ghost story," Koepp told Mashable in a joint in-person interview with Soderbergh, who concurred, adding that