The Man In My Basement is directed by Nadia Latif in her feature debut and co-written with Walter Mosley, adapting his own novel. The film stars Corey Hawkins as a man about to lose his family home when an unlikely saviour arrives in a wealthy businessman (Willem Dafoe) who offers to rent his basement for the summer. But this stranger's true intentions are far from benevolent.
Anna Diop and Tamara Lawrance also star.
The Man In My Basement is in UK cinemas from September 12th and Disney+ later this year.
Check out the new trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
In the African American neighborhood of Sag Harbor, New York, Charles Blakey (Corey Hawkins) is out of work, out of luck and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home. A knock on the door from a mysterious businessman, Anniston Bennet (Willem Dafoe), brings a bizarre and lucrative proposition; rent his dusty stand-up basement out for the summer and receive enough money to clear his debts for good. Once Charles accepts, he finds himself led down a terrifying path that confronts his family’s ghosts and locks the men in a terrifying puzzle, at the heart of it, race, the source of their traumas and the root of all evil.
