The Presence
The Presence
PG | 04 August 2010 (USA)
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In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel. Is she battling her inner demons, or is a much darker presence threatening them all?

Reviews
Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Tayyab Torres

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

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Ella-May O'Brien

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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Edwin

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

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Ella king

So to start I would like to say even though it's a little different it kind of works the film is well done in many ways but also a little silly that being said I think it worked. I did like there was no talking in the opening few minutes set the tempo and the acting was OK for the most part, it's a different kind of ghost story but still done well.

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Tehmeh

If you want to be afraid, this isn't your movie. It's somewhat horrorish and there is a little ghost story, but this film will not scare you. Think of it more as a grounded supernatural drama. Let's get the good things out of the way first. Yes, there is some good about this film. The core idea, the basic story is good. Refreshing, actually. I thought it'd be much worse. I've seen better movies of this genre with massively inferior story lines. This movie has a good heart. The setting is confined enough to be intense. Mira Sorvino can act. She's only decent, but it's enough. Her pretty face and that certain natural charisma is a plus. You get lots of beautiful scenery and the shots are (usually) well framed.Now, on to the bad. There's plenty.Either the film was shot with shitty equipment or the conversion to blu-ray went horribly wrong, because any movement is out of focus and blurry. I'm betting on both. If you have to get this, go with DVD instead. The scenery and some shots look pretty good, but only because good-looking things are on the frame. Technically, not good at all.The music. This is a good example of "how to ruin an atmosphere with a sub-par soundtrack". When that certain background music isn't constantly on nearly every scene, it fails miserably when it's trying to create suspense. It's laughably bad at times and the timing seems to be often very, very wrong. It's like it isn't enough that the score seems to be from a whole different movie, because it's still used so poorly. When a movie is better off with no soundtrack at all, which is the case here, something is terribly wrong.Acting and dramatization often fails. Sorvino is alright, everyone else is struggling a bit. Some parts of certain performances aren't up to the task, and some parts - like the music - seem to be from another movie. "The Presence" isn't trying to be a B-movie, but some of the acting is reaching up to B-level. When dialogue needs to be really good, it isn't. When something needs to be A, it's B. There are many scenes with lost potential, be it of drama, horror or suspense. You see the potential immediately after it's gone, scene by scene.In short, this film has a good heart, but a severe lack of talent, effort and focus. It could've been good in the right hands. I can easily feel sympathy for this failure, because there really was a solid idea behind it. I paid 2 euros for the blu-ray. I don't know if it was worth it. It's a shame. I can't flat out hate this and out of sympathy I'm giving this a generous 4/10, but it's very likely that I won't watch it again.

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rupaabdi

I think that the storyline is an interesting take on the phenomenon of haunting and possession. It's underlying suggestion that possession is a more subtle phenomenon in contrast to the head-banging and vein-exploding stereotypes shown in most horror movies, is more believable. Tony Curren's portrayal of a 'dark angel' is very impressive and Shane West does a superb work of displaying subtle shades of evil, melancholy, frustration, loneliness and grief without uttering a single word. My favourite is the opening scene in which the concept of the 'Presence' is conveyed with a terrifying stillness. This movie reminded me of another refreshingly different horror movie starring Nicole Kidman, called 'The Others'.

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GL84

Arriving at a secluded cabin to get over the demons of her past, a woman finds the cabin haunted by the ghosts she's running from and tries to stop their torment and control over her when her boyfriend comes to visit.Quite frankly this is one of the most boring and irritating horror films of all time and ranks as one of the worst all-time. This is aided by the film's complete lack of anything going on here, which tends to feature one of the characters wandering around the house while a ghost looks on silently and immobile the entire time, not reacting to her being there nor doing anything to put the characters in harm's way. That's the whole point here, there's no danger at all to the characters so there's no blood, no gore, no deaths, nor even is there on-screen violence perpetrated against them as the lone act that could've been highly rewarding for what's transpired is done off-screen with the shouts and screams echoing through the landscape, and their tactic of merely whispering their intentions is just plain irksome and generates nothing but loathing at the lack of action. The fact that it takes just under half-an-hour for the first line of dialog to occur should be more than enough to denote what kind of film this is, even with some potentially intriguing scenes later on. The scenery looks gorgeous, the house is creepy and the atmosphere works, but the lack of an intimidating threat and toned-down atmosphere here doom this one.Rated PG-13: Language.

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