Magnet Releasing will release Man Finds Tape – a tightly wound, digital-age descent into the uncanny – on December 5, 2025, arriving in select cinemas and on digital platforms. The film marks the feature-length debut of Texas-raised filmmakers Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman.
Written and directed by the duo, Man Finds Tape traces an unsettling mystery rooted in rural Texas. The story follows Lucas Page, a YouTuber who finds online notoriety after posting a string of inexplicable videos he claims are old recordings from his youth. As viewers begin questioning the tapes’ authenticity, Lucas seeks out his estranged sister, Lynn, bringing her a recently surfaced clip: a broad-daylight killing caught on security cameras in their hometown of Larkin, Texas.
What begins as an uneasy reunion quickly spirals into something far more ominous. Their search for answers drags long-hidden local histories into view, exposing a malevolent presence that has haunted Larkin for generations – its influence stretching toward the town’s charismatic yet rather disquieting reverend.
The film stars Kelsey Pribilski, William Magnuson, John Gholson, Brian Villalobos, and Nell Kessler.
With the release approaching, CinemaChords’ Howard Gorman sat down with Pribilski and Magnuson to explore how they approached characters shaped by screens, surveillance, and an ever-watchful online audience. The pair discussed how performing within a world mediated by cameras influenced their physical and emotional choices; how the religious and cultural pressures of small-town Texas informed their characters’ moral boundaries; and how the demanding, often toxic currents of social media – its performativity, its obsession with visibility, its capacity to distort identity – factored into their understanding of fear, doubt, and responsibility within the film’s narrative.
Magnet Releasing releases Man Finds Tape in select theaters and on digital platforms on December 5, 2025.
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