Ahead of its theatrical release this September, a new trailer has landed online for director Nadia Latif’s upcoming thriller The Man in My Basement.
Based on Walter Mosley’s acclaimed novel, the film stars Corey Hawkins as an out of work man who looks to rent out his basement to avoid his ancestral home going into foreclosure, but when a mysterious businessman (Willem Dafoe) offers to pay him enough to clear his debt to rent it for the summer he finds himself led down a terrifying path.
Joining Hawkins and Dafoe in the cast are Anna Diop, Jonathan Ajayi, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr., Pamela Nomvete, and Tamara Lawrance. Watch the new trailer below…
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.
The Man in My Basement arrives in cinemas on September 12th.
