Hulu has shared a teaser trailer for an interesting new horror thiller The Man in My Basement, which stars Willem Dafoe.
The story is set 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 (Dafoe), brings a bizarre & 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 & locks the men in a terrifying puzzle, at the heart of it race, the source of their traumas and the root of all evil.”
This looks like a great, intense, and thrilling movie. The screenplay is written by Walter Mosley and Nadia Latif, and it’s based on Mosley’s book of the same name.
The movie was directed by Nadia Latif, making her feature directorial debut and it also stars Anna Diop and Tamara Lawrance.
Hulu will release The Man in My Basement in the fall later in 2025.
