Presence (2022) by Christain Schultz

Director: Christian Schultz

Year: 2022

Country: USA

Alternate Titles: N/A

Genre: Psychological

Plot:

After her business partner goes missing, a woman finds that she has mysteriously reappeared and brought an investor onboard for their company which will require them to travel to Puerto Rico to finalize it, forcing them on his yacht for the trip where she believes a dark spirit is haunting her.

Review:

There's almost nothing worthwhile to be had with this one. The main issue here is that this is so mysterious and underwhelming that it strains the viewers' interest in what's happening. Since there's nothing about what's actually troubling her or if it's actually malicious in any context, with so few scenes involving anything scary or thrilling happening until so late in what's going on, this becomes barely worthwhile and incredibly frustrating. The characters aren't that interesting, the setup has very little immersion about what's happening, and it only serves as a means of getting these people onto the boat.

That wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't anything happening to further what's going on with the haunting storyline. This has very little build-up or investment in her condition as very little was happening to keep this setup going along with so little actual genre content throughout this point. The focus on her rekindling their relationship with her business partner, the antics between them and the guy on the boat, and the implications that arise from these issues manage to hold the film's attention for so much of the running time that the final few minutes when it finally becomes a genre effort with the reveal of what's happening. However, it's too little too late to save it.

Overview: 0.5/5

A worthless genre effort without anything much of interest happening, this one manages to be just about unnecessary and almost misclassified being in the genre with very little interest here. There's very little need or reason to see it so it's probably best to avoid it and venture out to other truer genre efforts instead of this one.