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SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses the plot and ending of “Presence,” now playing in theaters. As with many ghost stories, the presence in “Presence” has a good reason to haunt its house.

That is the wildly compelling premise of Presence. Director Steven Soderbergh reteams with Kimi screenwriter David Koepp for an unconventional haunted house story, creating a film that is sharply ...

After watching on as the Payne family turns against one another, the Presence that drifts around their newly purchased, bougie abode makes a grand gesture to save its tattered residents.

“I don’t know where that guy came from or why. I know it’s really sick,” screenwriter David Koepp says, discussing the ending in an interview over Zoom. “I’ve raised four kids — two ...

The Presence then looks below to see their motionless bodies splayed in the driveway. “I don’t know where that guy came from or why. I know it’s really sick,” screenwriter David Koepp says, discussing ...

as with David Fincher’s home invasion thriller “Panic Room” or Soderbergh’s own tech-skeptic “Kimi,” released three years ago. But “Presence” put Koepp in a darker place than usual.