‘The Man in My Basement’ Trailer: Corey Hawkins Stars as a Cash-Strapped Man With Willem Dafoe as His Unsettling Tenant in the TIFF-Bound Thriller
The film explores racial trauma and survival through a psychological thriller about a man forced to rent his basement to avoid foreclosure, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival.
- Making its debut at TIFF, The Man in My Basement, film, will have its world premiere next month; co-written by Nadia Latif and Walter Mosley.
- Directing her first feature, Nadia Latif, makes her feature directorial debut from a script she co-wrote with Walter Mosley, based on Mosley’s 2004 novel.
- Recently, Charles Blakey, homeowner in Sag Harbor, New York, considers renting his basement for 65 days at $1,000 per day to pay off his debts.
- Coming to theaters and streaming, The Man in My Basement opens in select theaters on September 12 and will be available on Hulu and Disney+ this fall.
- As a psychological thriller, the film explores generational pain, systemic racism, and the cost of survival through a tense psychological puzzle.
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New trailer for The Man in My Basement starring Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe
Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: New trailer for The Man in My Basement starring Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe 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 […] Re…
'The Man in My Basement' Trailer Sets Up Thrills Ahead of TIFF Premiere
Photo via Aandscape and Hulu The Man in My Basement, one of many new genre films set to premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival, dropped its official trailer today. It’s been a couple of months since Hulu released a very intriguing teaser for the film, and now we’ve got a longer look at what promises to be an intimate yet high-stakes thriller. The Man in My Basement picks up on Charles (Corey Hawkins), a young Black man wh…
The Man in My Basement: Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe psychological thriller gets a full trailer ahead of September release
Back in March of 2022, it was announced that Jonathan Majors was set to star in and executive produce the psychological thriller The Man in My Basement, which is based on the Walter Mosley novel of the same name (pick up a copy HERE) and would mark the feature debut of writer/director Nadia Latif. But then, as we all know, things fell apart with Majors for a while and he was replaced in the cast by Corey Hawkins (The Last Voyage of the Demeter),…
The Emmy nominee, Corey Hawkins, and the Academy Award nominee, Willem Dafore, are faced in the tense trailer for "The Man in My Basement." Based on Walter Mosley's novel and directed by Nadia Latif, who has his debut as director. The film is set in the African American neighborhood of Sag Harbor, New York. What "The Man in My Basement" is about "The Man in My Basement" is centered on Charles Blakey, played by Hawkins, a man without a job, witho…
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