{"id":109115,"date":"2025-10-30T16:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109115\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:17:06","slug":"man-finds-tape-trailer-descends-into-disturbing-rabbit-hole-of-small-town-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109115\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Man Finds Tape&#8217; Trailer Descends Into Disturbing Rabbit Hole of Small Town Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A videotape sends a man down a disturbing rabbit hole in the new trailer for Magnet Releasing\u2019s faux documentary horror movie Man Finds Tape.<\/p>\n<p>Man Finds Tape releases in select theaters and VOD platforms\u00a0on December 5, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Pribilski, William Magnuson, John Gholson, Brian Villalobos, and\u00a0Nell Kessler star.<\/p>\n<p>In Man Finds Tape, \u201cAfter receiving a cryptic call, documentarian Lynn Page (Pribilski) returns to her small Texas hometown to investigate haunting footage of events no one can remember taking place. But her brother Lucas\u2019 (Magnuson) controversial past with a viral web series called Man Find Tape forces Lynn to question if he, or anyone in their town, can be trusted. And the arrival of a stranger with chaotic intentions forces Lynn to confront her family\u2019s involvement with the deadly monster preying on Larkin, TX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The supernatural chiller marks the feature debut of co-writers\/co-directors\u00a0Paul Gandersman and\u00a0Peter Hall. The pair previously co-authored the 2022 horror novel<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/encyclopocalypse.com\/products\/dead-friends-society?srsltid=AfmBOopVjsE9fZ4favR1hPXSlxeAwBX28X1Aav1AIK4_RWAuSt-n2Jwi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> The Dead Friends Society<\/a> for Encyclopocalypse Publications.<\/p>\n<p>Rustic Films\u2019\u00a0David Lawson Jr.,\u00a0Aaron Moorhead, and\u00a0Justin Benson (The Endless, \u201c<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/exclusives\/3863660\/daredevil-born-again-season-finale-gore-sfx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daredevil: Born Again<\/a>\u201c)\u00a0produced with\u00a0Ashley Landavazo, while Jessica Cargill and\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/interviews\/3908884\/black-phone-2-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">C. Robert Cargill<\/a>, and XYZ Films serve as executive producers.<\/p>\n<p>The horror movie made its premiere earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. Daniel Kurland wrote in\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/reviews\/3872034\/man-finds-tape-is-fearless-found-footage-that-seeks-to-disrupt-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">his festival review<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s such a satisfying slow burn that culminates in something special that\u2019s worth the tropes and theatrics. It\u2019s an ambitious hybrid horror film that provokes and reinforces that seeing isn\u2019t just believing, but that it\u2019s an exercise that can be as fatal as it is informative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out the trailer below, but beware: the imagery may induce trypophobia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A videotape sends a man down a disturbing rabbit hole in the new trailer for Magnet Releasing\u2019s faux&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[78429,63936,156,78430,78431,409,111,139,69,78432,78433,78434],"class_list":["post-109115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-aaron-moorhead","tag-c-robert-cargill","tag-entertainment","tag-justin-benson","tag-man-finds-tape","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paul-gandersman","tag-peter-hall","tag-rustic-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}