ANDSCAPE
Presents
THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT
*Official Selection of 2025 Toronto International Film Festival*
BASED ON THE ACCLAIMED NOVEL BY WALTER MOSLEY(Devil in a Blue Dress, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey)
Directed by Nadia Latif
Starring Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe and Anna Diop
COMING TO THEATERS AND HULU FALL 2025
DIRECTED BY: Nadia Latif
SCREENPLAY BY: Walter Mosley & Nadia Latif
CAST: Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe, Anna Diop, Jonathan Ajayi, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr., Pamela Nomvete, Tamara Lawrance
PRODUCERS: Produced by Diane Houslin p.g.a, John Giwa-Amu p.g.a. Producers Dave
Bishop, Len Rowlands p.g.a.
GENRE: Psychological Thriller
SYNOPSIS:
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.
ABOUT ANDSCAPE:
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