{"id":2001243,"date":"2025-09-06T05:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2001243"},"modified":"2025-09-06T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:23:08","slug":"the-man-in-my-basement-review-corey-hawkins-and-willem-dafoe-lead-a-lethargic-psychological-thriller-that-only-gestures-at-big-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-man-in-my-basement-review-corey-hawkins-and-willem-dafoe-lead-a-lethargic-psychological-thriller-that-only-gestures-at-big-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Man in My Basement\u2019 Review: Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe Lead a Lethargic Psychological Thriller That Only Gestures at Big Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The psychological thriller \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12619462\/\">The Man in My Basement<\/a>\u201d adapts <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0608859\/\">Walter Mosley<\/a>\u2019s 2004 novel of the same name, but yields little by way of intriguing psychology or thrills. Set in the quaint Long Island village of Sag Harbor \u2014 a historically African American community \u2014 it follows a young Black slacker whose inherited home becomes the venue for a middle-aged white man\u2019s strange experiment, while gesturing at themes of guilt, trauma and racial animus that go nowhere anytime quick.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5427696\/\">Mosley<\/a> co-writes the screenplay alongside debuting director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6240917\/\">Nadia Latif<\/a>, who shows immense promise early on, capturing the directionless young Charles Blakey (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3659660\/\">Corey Hawkins<\/a>) as he antagonizes one of his pals for no good reason. There\u2019s a simmering rage and self-loathing to Blakey, which <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1263703\/\">Latif<\/a> matches in the form of unpredictable camera motion, but these introductory moments are about as energetic as the movie ever gets.<\/p>\n<p>Blakey, having inherited his mother\u2019s isolated home and all her belongings,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The psychological thriller \u201cThe Man in My Basement\u201d adapts Walter Mosley\u2019s 2004 novel of the same name, but yields little by way of intriguing psychology or thrills. 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