"I always operate the camera, but this was next level," the director says. "I’m really in there with the actors."

Steven Soderbergh has been thinking about ghosts. Whether they exist, sure, but more so: Why? He wonders what would compel a spirit to remain on this earthly plane rather than advance to whatever lies in the great beyond — and whether they’re given a choice.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, Contagion) from a screenplay by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Panic Room), the haunted house chiller is shot entirely from the point of view of a spirit trapped inside a suburban home (i.