'The Man in My Basement' Review: Willem Dafoe and Corey Hawkins Play Mind Games in a Scattered Horror Film

If there is one thing that should be a rule in movies and in life, it's this: if a deceptively friendly Willem Dafoe comes knocking at your door with a creepy smile to offer you a suspiciously large amount of cash to rent your basement, say no, lock the doors, throw away his card, and never speak to him again. Unfortunately for Corey Hawkins' troubled Charles in Nadia Latif's "The Man in My Basement," he does not heed all the alarm bells going off in his head and proceeds to let Dafoe's mystery man in. The reasons for this poor decision soon reveal themselves as having to do with . . .