They’re selling “Presence” as a horror movie when it’s something else entirely: a ghost story as told from the point of view of the ghost. As such, it’s more unsettling than scary, more dramatically gripping than nerve-shredding.

At this point, it becomes apparent that he had been the ghost all along. When the family had previously sought out the help of a psychic medium, she had told them that time works differently for spirits, and so it seems that ghost Tyler has essentially gone back in time to prevent his sister from being abused and murdered by Ryan.

The entire film is shot entirely from the ghost's point of view, the audience haunting a family that has recently moved into a New Jersey home, not realizing that something was already living there. Critic Sean Burns says it's a great gimmick,