Emmy nominee Corey Hawkins and Academy Award nominee Willem Dafore face off in the tense trailer for “ The Man in My Basement .” The psychological thriller from Andscape, the Black content studio of The Walt Disney Company, will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.

Adapted from Walter Mosley’s bestselling novel and directed by Nadia Latif in her feature debut, “The Man in My Basement” is set in the African American neighborhood of Sag Harbor, New York and centers on Charles Blakey (Hawkins), a man who is “out of work, out of luck and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home” after his mother’s death. Then, a knock on the door from a mysterious businessman, Anniston Bennet (Dafoe), the trailer shows, brings a bizarre and lucrative prop

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