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Deron GenerallyBased on the acclaimed novel by Walter Mosley, writer of Devil in a Blue Dress and The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, Andscape released the first trailer for The Man in My Basement.
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 stars Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe, Anna Diop, Jonathan Ajayi, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr., Pamela Nomvete and Tamara Lawrance. Written by Walter Mosley and Nadia Latif, the film is directed by Nadia Latif.
The Man in My Basement comes to theaters and HULU this Fall.
