Streaming: Steven Soderbergh’s Presence and the best haunted house films

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The director’s witty supernatural thriller joins Psycho, Hereditary, The Brutalist and more – films in which buildings are characters in their own right The first more-or-less horror movie in the lengthy, genre-skimming career of director Steven Soderbergh , Presence is a film about grief, trauma, familial dysfunction and abusive masculinity. But it’s also, to a significant and compelling extent, about property. Beginning with a family’s first viewing of a handsome Victorian home in an unidentified stretch of suburbia, the film never ventures outside its walls for the next 85 minutes, as the ensuing chills make us consider the merits of that purchase. Wittily and unnervingly shot from the perspective of the restless spirit roaming its halls, it’s a haunted house film in which much of the tension feels determined by the shape and flow and light and shade of the house itself. It’s a while since I’ve seen a film where I could quite so exactly draw the floor plan of its primary location,...
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Katy Perry’s Last Las Vegas Performance Was Marred By A Strained Right Eye

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Fans were concerned that the pop sensation Katy Perry might truly be a robot when she experienced an eye problem in the middle of her concert. Perry struggled to hold her right eye open while performing a recent show as part of her residency at the Las Vegas Play. She even appeared to be trying to prevent her eyelid from dropping by pressing her finger against the side of her temple. After some time, the performer successfully lifted one of her eyelids, and she then maintained both eyes wide open for several seconds. After that, she blinked before encouraging the audience members to raise their voices for her band. KatyCats reacted in various ways to the strange exhibition that has gone popular on social media, ranging from being alarmed to being delighted by what they saw. The problems with her clone continued. In a TikTok comment, one user remarked, "That is alarming," while another added, "Her robot really seemed to glitch a lot." Another person joked that they had known for a while that the woman in question was a robot. Finally, someone else commented that Katy Perry is a female robot laughing its head off. In the meantime, another person's viewpoint was: It wasn't the eye thing that was strange; rather, it was the fact that she pretended it didn't happen and continued with the program as if nothing had happened... A good many people regarded the situation to be pretty humorous. On TikTok, one user made a joke about the baby doll they had when they were younger that had an eye that kept closing, while another user pondered that she had lost her wifi connection. Another supporter likened Perry's crooked eye to the one appearing on a Disney animatronic after it had been used for around ten years. The Roar diva was celebrating her 38th birthday when comments about the issue began to surface. On Tuesday, Perry celebrated the start of a new year, and her boyfriend, Orlando Bloom, posted a touching Instagram message in her honor.

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