The Man In My Basement – Watch Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe in the trailer for the new thriller

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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 film is directed by Nadia Latif, who co-wrote it with Walter Mosley (Devil in a Blue Dress, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey). It stars Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe, Anna Diop, Jonathan Ajayi, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr., Pamela Nomvete, and Tamara Lawrance.

The Man In My Basement hits cinemas and Hulu this autumn.