‘The Man in My Basement’ Trailer – Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe Star in Thriller Premiering at TIFF

Ahead of the world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival, Disney’s Andscape debuted the official trailer for The Man in My Basement, the psychological thriller film starring Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe and Anna Diop.

Also featured in the film are Jonathan Ajayi, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr., Pamela Nomvete, and Tamara Lawrance.

Adapted from Walter Mosley’s acclaimed novel, the film, directed by Nadia Latif, will be released in select theaters on September 12th, and on Hulu and Disney+ this fall.

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.

Watch the official trailer above.