10 Recent Horror Movies That Had No Right To Be This Good

10. Presence

Even accepting that Steven Soderbergh is one of the most talented and versatile filmmakers working today, his new supernatural thriller Presence probably shouldn't have worked - at least not nearly as well as it did.

Soderbergh's film unfolds entirely from the perspective of a ghost, as it observes a family that moves into the house it currently occupies.

Despite the marketing selling this one as an outright horror flick, it's really more of a family drama with some fringe genre elements which only really announce themselves later on.

And so, it's easy to see why Presence alienated more casual film fans, even if critics were largely united in their praise for Soderbergh's unconventional style and the script's cleverly genre-bending approach.

There's a reason that we've never seen a film shot entirely from the POV of a ghost before, and certainly not one filmed entirely on a consumer-level mirrorless camera as Soderbergh did here - it's really, really hard to make that combination compelling for a feature-length runtime.

Yet Soderbergh, ever the fascinating cinematic tinkerer, defied the odds and delivered one of the most unique experiences of the year, if not the decade so far.