The haunted-house thriller Presence has a formal conceit so clever, I'm surprised it hasn't ever been done or attempted before. Maybe another movie has done it that I'm not aware of. This is a ghost ...

the children choose an inhabitant of The Haunted House - for example a big monster with long claws and sharp teeth, a skeleton with a floppy posture, or something floating with waving arms.

The resulting film follows a family (led by Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan, who had worked on Soderbergh's brilliant, short-lived Cinemax series "The Knick ... Koepp Reinvented the Haunted House Movie ...