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The Man in My Basement
Directed by
Nadia Latif
R
2025
1h 55m
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4.6
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22%
5.5
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Charles Blakey, a man living in Sag Harbor, is stuck in a rut, out of luck and about to lose his ancestral home when a peculiar businessman offers to rent his basement for the summer.
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Cast of The Man in My Basement
Corey Hawkins
Charles Blakey / Executive Producer
Willem Dafoe
Anniston Bennett / Executive Producer
Anna Diop
Narciss Gully
Jonathan Ajayi
Ricky Winkler
Gershwyn Eustache Jnr
Clarence Mayhew
Pamela Nomvete
Irene Littleneck
Tamara Lawrance
Bethany
Brian Bovell
Brent Blakey
Lizzie Lomas
Extine Blandford
Mark Arnold
Wilson Ryder
Kayla Meikle
Lainie
Tim Dewberry
Delivery Man
Bret Jones
John Paterson
Josiah Leonardo Kabeya
Young Charles
Miah Hasselbaink
Athalia
Dominique Tipper
Raelene
Olivia Michi Shrenzel
Hina
Shellia Kennedy
Peaches
Brooke Walter
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Nadia Latif
Director / Screenplay
The Man in My Basement Ratings & Reviews
Mashable
Kristy Puchko
For all the atmosphere and the grounded yet disturbing performances, the movie fumbles its finale, delivering neither nerve-shredding scares nor a heart-filling nor heart-wrenching resolution.
In Review Online
Jake Tropila
Dafoe is as reliable a presence as ever, but The Man in My Basement squanders its intriguing premise, bottoming out long before the picture ends.
The Curvy Film Critic
Carla Renata
Although, The Man in the Basement suffers at times as a muddled psychological thriller whose subtext, in many instances takes over, it's the beautifully anchored performances by the Dafoe and Hawkins, that make this adaptation worth the watch.
Paste Magazine
Jim Vorel
For far too much of its bloated runtime, it becomes an incomprehensible slideshow of trauma and weakly executed horror imagery, only occasionally revealing the far more effective, character-driven psychological thriller it's clearly yearning to be.
The Verge
Andrew Webster
But after a promising start the film becomes a little scattered and never really finds its footing. Still, it's at least entertaining to watch Hawkins and Dafoe both steadily lose their shit (literally, at one point, for Dafoe).
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
... mildly provocative, yet the intriguing premise outweighs the ponderous payoff.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
The ideas are there ... but feel thin.
Film Festival Today
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Latif is simply trying to do too much, taking on many issues of great import-the legacy of slavery, Black history, racial violence, and more-but doing none of them justice.
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
Charles is an interesting character, and so, for that matter, is Anniston, and Narciss too. But they feel a little more like stand-ins for ideas than like three-dimensional people.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
Remains specialized work for those with an interest in a dissection of human misery, and the movie finds plenty of psychological poison to highlight as a seemingly simple rental agreement between two men becomes a battle for sanity.
The Playlist
Warren Cantrell
Magnetic, lived-in performances by the leads bolster the effort and keep it interesting, but the production consistently over-promises and under-delivers throughout its torturous 110-minute runtime.
MaitlandOnMovies (Substack)
Maitland McDonagh
[T]he shifting psychological/sociopolitical landscape [is] clear but not overstated... Kudos to the cast, notably Dafoe and Hawkins; if the story had been played as a spare two-hander...in a single room I suspect they could have made it equally compelling
Black Girl Nerds
Jamie Broadnax
What sets The Man in My Basement apart is its willingness to wrestle with big, uncomfortable questions. At its heart, the film is about power - who has it, how it's wielded, and the damage it inflicts.
Heaven of Horror
Karina Adelgaard
It's a movie that requires a lot of its audience, so you need to pay attention and be open to the story beneath the story. The ending itself is wild...
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
Watching these two performers grapple with a text as rich as Mosley's only leads one back to wishing the film around them trusted them enough to take more risks and to really go somewhere other than the first floor.
FlickSided
Louis Skye (Ronita Roy Mohan)
The Man in My Basement has an unusual concept... But this needed to be a psychological thriller through and through, not a horror film. Despite strong performances and plot twists, the film never manages to transcend its horror roots.
IndieWire
Kate Erbland
The devil isn't just on the screen, it's in the details, and Latif's film can't pull those together.
TheWrap
Chase Hutchinson
Each empty bump in the night lands with a dull thud. Even a terrifying dog that becomes crucial to the film has a bark that's worse than its bite.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
Rife with symbolic weight, the action is thematically jumbled, and worse, it takes so long establishing its scenario that it never develops a sense of urgency and madness.
Variety
Siddhant Adlakha
[Gestures] at themes of guilt, trauma and racial animus that go nowhere anytime quick.
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