The Man In My Basement
Movie • 2025
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Follows Charles Blakey, an African American man living in Sag Harbor, who is stuck in a rut, out of luck and about to lose his ancestral home when a peculiar white businessman with a European accent offers to rent his basement for the summer. He’ll pay $50,000. This lucrative proposition leads Charles down a terrifying path that takes him to the heart of race, history and the root of all evil.
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a deer is hit by a car but it's on accident, and he's basically haunted by it again later on out of guilt. that's not abuse. it was reckless to drive down a road with his eyes closed, but he was only hoping to harm himself
a deer is hit by a car but it's on accident, and he's basically haunted by it again later on out of guilt. that's not abuse. it was reckless to drive down a road with his eyes closed, but he was only hoping to harm himself
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no cats that i can remember
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Anniston talks about having once bought a child for a man who wanted to feed them to a dog, and he talks about watching the dog kill the child which is i guess similar to dog fighting but obviously even more gruesome but in a different way
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no horses that i can remember
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we're shown flashes from Charles' childhood where he was terrorized by an older male family member
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Anniston entraps Charles in an abusive situation, and after subjecting him to enough mind games (and [SPOILER] after Anniston admits to having killed and tortured people before), Charles turns the tables and tortures him by keeping him in the dark by himself for days on end
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a child is shown being terrorized by his uncle
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not technically, but i will say that it felt uncomfortable when he was getting off to Beth's moans while she was being banged by his brother lol
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there's a scene while he's watching tv that he hears Beth being banged by his brother and he puts his hand in his pants and we have to watch him getting off for a few moments before he gets jumpscared
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it's lightly hinted that his mother was cruel to him, but his uncle for sure was.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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no autistic characters that we're made aware of
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Are there nude scenes?
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you see Willem Dafoe's full nude body in multiple scenes (like usual)
and you also see Charles' entire backside for several moments while he showers
and you also see Charles' entire backside for several moments while he showers
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Is there defecation?
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we don't see anyone actually defecating, but there is a scene after Anniston has been left alone in the dark for a while that his small portable toilet fell over and spilled across his cage. and we see him sitting naked, covered in filth for several minutes of intense conversation. then we see him get hosed off, but it's very gross visually
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no autistic characters that we're aware of
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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as far as we know, Charles' dad either died or left the picture when he was young
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Charles has clear PTSD and he commits mild violence in the film, more through neglect than anything else but still
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Is there hate speech?
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very racist things said by Anniston, like brutally so
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Is someone gaslighted?
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not in the strictest sense i don't think, but Anniston does try to make Charles think that he put himself in this situation because he belongs there
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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a few times by Black characters, and at least once by Anniston (hard R too). there's some scenes with severely racist language in this film, if you're sensitive to that then i would possibly consider skipping this flick
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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it's not referred to as PTSD in any explicit terms, but he very clearly suffers from flashbacks that trigger panic attacks for him, and we see him struggle through several episodes of it
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Charles has many panic attacks throughout the film, including during a flashback of struggling not to drown, so we see him hyperventilate a lot
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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not held under water, but Charles is shown struggling to stay above the surface of some kind of large body of water in at least one scene if not two
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[spoilers]
Anniston is put in a cage willingly, but eventually Charles turns it on him and leaves him in the dark alone for days on end.
and we also learn that his uncle died from neglect after Charles stopped answering him when he was sick in bed, leaving him trapped there on the bed with no way to get help.
Anniston is put in a cage willingly, but eventually Charles turns it on him and leaves him in the dark alone for days on end.
and we also learn that his uncle died from neglect after Charles stopped answering him when he was sick in bed, leaving him trapped there on the bed with no way to get help.
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Does a major character die?
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[big spoiler obviously]
Anniston dies at the end, and Charles finds him dead with a letter addressed to him
Anniston dies at the end, and Charles finds him dead with a letter addressed to him
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Does a parent die?
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Charles' mother, it's talked about extensively
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[major spoiler obviously]
Charles does end up letting his abuser die from neglect when he was sick in bed because he was sick of being mistreated, for whatever that's worth.
Charles does end up letting his abuser die from neglect when he was sick in bed because he was sick of being mistreated, for whatever that's worth.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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sort of.
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at one point Charles leaves Anniston alone in the dark for an unclear number of days and comes back to his cage being a mess because his toilet got knocked over and there's a lengthy scene where we see the 2 of them having a tense conversation while Anniston is sitting nude, covered in feces
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at one point Charles leaves Anniston alone in the dark for an unclear number of days and comes back to his cage being a mess because his toilet got knocked over and there's a lengthy scene where we see the 2 of them having a tense conversation while Anniston is sitting nude, covered in feces
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Charles has several panic attacks and the scenes are usually pretty extensive
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Does a family member die?
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mom and uncle, both are talked about extensively
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there's scary stuff that happens that i'm sure he's not sure are real or not
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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no characters are shown to have separate personalities
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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we're told about Charles' mother having been terminally ill when he moved in with her, and that she passed not long after he got there. and then his uncle fell sick too and he had to care for him for a while until he eventually passed too.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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someone get trapped at certain points, but no one is randomly plucked from their life and spirited away to being trapped
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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he closes his eyes while driving hoping that he'll crash and die, and when he opens them he sees a deer and swerves off the road
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Is there a shower scene?
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a scene that holds on him in the shower, and the partition only goes so far that you can see his entire backside during
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Charles clearly has some severe PTSD
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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sort of, but not a big melodramatic one. one character loses it on another and keeps trying to attack him while the 3rd person holds them back and shepherds them to their car
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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very harsh language in this movie
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Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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there are wooden masks that are said to be very old, and Anniston takes a knife to one. he only scrapes a tiny bit off to show there's some gold accents under some kind of grime or something, but it's purposefully nerve-racking in the moment lol
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after Beth sleeps with his brother, she comes and sits with Charles and is ambiguously flirty with him. but nothing happens between them before she and Ricky are shown to have gotten engaged and we don't see them again after that
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no trans people in the film
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Does someone drown?
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he is shown struggling to get to the surface in a body of water, but it's a flashback to him as a child and obviously he didn't die then
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there's a scene where Charles is shown struggling not to drown some body of water
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we don't see the deer die, but we do see Charles sitting next to it for a minute sobbing over it, and we can hear it suffering the whole time
definitely a scene to skip if that bothers you, and it comes up at the end of the scene where he's closing his eyes while driving and you have plenty of time to reach for the forward button before he hits anything
definitely a scene to skip if that bothers you, and it comes up at the end of the scene where he's closing his eyes while driving and you have plenty of time to reach for the forward button before he hits anything
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Is there a dead animal?
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There is a dead raccoon around minute 11:00 when he enters the storage room with the carton of beer bottles.
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