'The Man in My Basement' thriller asks who writes history, director says

By Kate Skelly

TORONTO (Reuters) -When the psychological thriller “The Man in My Basement,” starring Willem Dafoe and Corey Hawkins, hits theatres on Friday, director Nadia Latif hopes the audience will leave questioning who has written history.

“I want people to be thinking about who tells them stories … and actually to do their own kind of investigation into what they believe their place in the world to be,” Latif told Reuters following the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The movie, which is Latif’s feature directorial debut and an adaptation of a Walter Mosley novel of the same name, follows the story of a young Black man whose life is on the brink of crumbling. He is about to lose his family’s home when a stranger knocks on his door with a bizarre r