Here's everything we know about the upcoming movie The Man In My Basement

The Man in My Basement is an upcoming thriller film, set to release soon in theaters and on Hulu on Disney+. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Walter Mosley. The story revolves around an African American man, Charles Blakey, who is struggling financially and will lose his ancestral home.

He is saved last minute by a white man, Anniston Bennet, who wishes to rent out his basement and is willing to pay a very high amount for it. But what seems like a blessing to Corey ends up being his biggest nightmare. Read this article to find out more.

---

Everything we know about The Man in My Basement

The story is set in the black neighbourhood of Sag Harbor, New York. A young black man, Charles Blakey, has inherited his ancestral home but is on the verge of losing it. One day, a white businessman, Anniston Bennet, knocks on Blakey's door with a strange proposition. The film's teaser trailer begins with this man's arrival as he says to Blakey,

"I have in mind to rent your basement for a couple of months."

Charles Blakey responds,

"I'm sorry, mister. This house isn't for sale."

However, Bennet makes him an offer he cannot refuse. Charles has to save his house from foreclosure, and Bennet makes him an irresistible offer.

"I'm only interested in renting. I'll pay you 1000 dollars a day for 65 days"

A stranger offering to pay an exorbitant amount of money to rent one's basement was already creepy, but the plot gets more sinister when Anniston Bennet says,

"The only thing I ask of you is that you tell no one of our arrangement."

What follows is a series of mysterious and unexplainable events in the house, which force Blekey to come face-to-face with his family's history while dealing with something that is deeply sinister.

In her directorial feature debut, Nadia Latif is adapting Walter Mosley's novel The Man in My Basement and giving it a few tweaks. The core story of the film is the same as the novel, but it is set a decade before the novel's time. Latif chose this path so that she could set the powerful story at the time of the Rwandan Civil War, in 1994.

As Latif told Entertainment Weekly, her vision of the story focuses on

"who gets to tell whose history,"

And that is what we will see on the screen is,

"darker," "scarier,"

and

"more baroque"

than the novel, further highlighting,

"where cruelty leads us."

The Man in My Basement stars Corey Hawkins as the protagonist Charles Blakey, Willem Dafoe as the mysterious Anniston Bennet, Anna Diop as Narciss Gully, and Tamara Lawrance as Bethany. The film has been produced by Diane Houslin and John Giwa-Amu in collaboration with Andscape, B.O.B. Filmhouse, Good Gate Media, and Protagonist Pictures.

As Corey Hawkins told Entertainment Weekly, The Man In My Basement

"asks each of us to sit in the uncomfortable,"

"We're exploring mental health, trauma, exploitation, and yes, the nature of evil, but we're also dealing with legacy, lineage, home, and love."

The Man In My Basement is arriving soon in theaters and on Hulu and Disney+.

---

For more articles like this, follow Soapcentral.