This article contains spoilers For Mike Flanagan's "Presence" and "The Haunting of Hill House".

Breaking the other side and the testimony of things from a ghost plane is not a novelty for the horror genre. Films such as "Haunter", "The Others" and "The Sixth Sense", to list a few, all allowed viewers to look at the afterlife. Director Steven Soderberg New horror movie "presence" (Check out our review here) offers a different kind of supernatural experience, as we see the whole story from a paranormal first -person perspective, with a spirit that is revealed only after death in the last act.

At the beginning of the "presence", a medium that visits the house explains that the afterlife does not follow the same rules of time as ours, and the spirit does not know who they are and when they exist. This sets out the turnaround that the spirit is, in fact, Tyler Payne (Eddie Meday), the oldest child of a family falling to death as he protects his sister, seems to return before his death to persecute the family until that time. It's a daring twist and it's best not to keep too much.

However, even with its strengths, it is difficult to see "presence" without recalling the ghost known as the lady with a bent neck in "The Haunting of Hill House", which uses similar rules much more efficiently. This is largely due to the ghosts in question and their relationships with the living frightened of the mind.

Fans of Mike Flanagan (or Flanafans) will surely remember the moment when they discovered that the lady with a bent neck, which had been haunted by Nell Crane (Victoria Pedretti) in "The Haunting of Hill House", is actually Eleonor. "Nell" Crane himself. Hanging through the decades, the iconic spirit of one of The best shows of Flanagan Throw a wild time cycle in his adaptation to the classic horror story and it worked brilliantly, adding the tragedy of Nell's life, which continued to death. In the case of "presence", however, the turnaround feels undeserved, primarily because the character who becomes spirit is shown as cramped from the beginning.

Tyler is the beloved, arrogant son who is exalted exclusively by his mother's obsession with his success. If even a slight emotional connection between him and his mourned, but still a neglected sister, Chloe (Kalina Liang), turned him into the spirit that haunted his family would echo. Hints on a caring older brother, who was at least invested in his entire family, could make the story credible. Instead, it is a hasty discovery that encountered as just tying the loose ends of the film. Maybe if Chloe had fallen to death, taking the attacker to become a spirit, it would be a more appropriate conclusion than the one we received, primarily because there is no real decision for the family he really deserved.

The Payne family was damaged before they stepped into their newly obsessed home. Not only does Chris (Chris Sullivan) think about divorcing his muddy business, but also Rebecca (Lucy Liu) not only chooses a favorite child in Tyler, but has a border and bad paternal relationship with him. It leaves Chloe as an undoubtedly the main focus of the film - a spirit in her home, protected by her father, but almost no affection for her mother.

None of this is even from afar until the loans are listed, even after the spirit literally awakened the house when Tyler expressed his denial of his sister's experience. If there was a scene where they were repaired, or when Liu's cold mother was slightly warmed by her daughter before the unexpected death of her son, a blow in her stomach she hoped to land would leave a mark. What repeated the emotional notes of Nell's discovery in "The Haunting of Hill House", when she finally realized that what she haunted her during her life was a death vision for her ruin. During the Beyond Fest screening attended by /Film's BJ Colangelo, Flanagan also confirmed that Australian Ghost Film "Lake Mungo" It was a huge inspiration for "The Haunting of Hill House", and the biggest fear of the film was a direct impact on Nell's terror.

After all, the "presence", relying on the premise of a guard who maintains his distance until he is absolutely necessary, he needed a human touch to glue his landing. Instead, everything we want to want is to go back to Hill House or travel to Lake Mungo and see how a really frightening turn of time is being made.