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There’s a specific, dusty smell to an old box of tapes that sends me right back to my childhood bedroom, meticulously recording movies off the television. That feeling of holding a physical piece of media, a tangible record of a moment, feels almost alien today.

Man Finds Tape taps directly into that feeling. It begins in the quiet Texas town of Larkin, where Lucas Page unearths a MiniDV tape from his past. The footage is simple yet chilling: an unknown man in his room as he slept, an event he has no memory of. He does what anyone might do in 2025: he starts a YouTube series.

His investigation goes viral, drawing the attention of his estranged sister, Lynn, a documentarian. She returns home, camera in tow, thinking she is there to pull her brother back from an online obsession. Instead, she finds herself at the center of a glitch in reality,...

Kelsey Pribilski getting her make-up done on the set of Man Finds Tape

Paul Gandersman and Peter Hall's directorial feature debut, the fictional horror documentary Man Finds Tape, revolves around documentarian Lynn Page (Kelsey Pribilski), who returns to her family home in Larkin, Texas after receiving a cryptic phone call from her brother Lucas (William Magnuson). The discovery of mysterious video footage, Lucas' viral web series Man Finds Tape and inexplicable questions about a tragic event recorded in the small community, thrusts the siblings down a rabbit hole. Meanwhile, the pair confront an evil that has been preying for decades on their small town.

Prior to writing Man Finds Tape, with the support of Rustic Films' Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead and David Lawson Jr, Gandersman and Hall published the horror novel The Dead Friends Society, about the victims of a masked killer whose spirits are trapped in a house,...

With video surveillance and social media at a fever pitch, the time for new takes on found footage is now, and you don’t have to reinvent the smartphone to do it. “Man Finds Tape” uses a traditional lo-fi approach to an elevated horror concept when a strange presence starts zapping minds in the small town of Larkin, Texas.

Written and directed by Peter Hall and Paul Gandersman, the supernatural mystery follows siblings Lynn (Kelsey Pribilski) and Lucas Page (William Magnuson) through a playful reconsideration of the unreliable narrator. The filmmakers’ background as novelists steers their world toward Stephen King territory, occasionally to its detriment. But in the end, their thoroughly imagined script pays off as a well-constructed monster movie — one that freshly challenges the sometimes-freeing, sometimes-suffocating subgenre and format.

Scary clips presented without context can be terrifying, but “Man Finds Tape” breaks new ground by tangling up its audience...

The Tribeca Film Fest 2025, presented by Okx, announced its full lineup of feature narrative, documentary, and animated films today. This year’s Festival, which takes place June 4-15 in New York City showcases the best emerging talent from across the globe alongside established names.

Of particular interest to horror fans may be the New York premiere of Predator: Killer of Killers. Also noteworthy is Tina Romero’s Queens of the Dead, in which George A. Romero’s daughter pays tribute to his brand of zombie cinema with a “fresh, contemporary, and queer twist.” Prolific filmmaker Takashi Miike is also back with his latest, the thriller Sham.

Read on for the genre titles scheduled to premiere at Tribeca:

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The most exciting cult movies from our galaxy: present, past, and future. Far-out premieres and nerve-shredding classics along with giveaways, prizes and fan-focused fun. Escape the ordinary and embrace the psychotronic!

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When she was a teenager, Dame Judi Dench took her under her wing. A decade later, she's the toast of Hollywood – and married to actor John Krasinski. Life would be perfect, she says, if it hadn't made her so superstitious

Emily Blunt is describing her Ocd with a humorous wryness. "It's very weird. It's only happened in this past year. I've started getting very superstitious and fixating on things. I used to do it as a kid. I'd get these obsessive moments where I'd be in the car with my dad or something, and every time we went past a lamp-post I'd go like this…" She pauses to make six clucking noises with her tongue, flipping her head with each one to acknowledge the lamp-posts she's mentally passing. "And my dad would be like: 'What are you doing?' And I'd go, 'Sorry, I can't…" she clucks, "…stop."

She rolls her eyes and laughs drily.

Mortal Kombat: Legacy: Season 1, Episode 6: Raiden has premiered. Episode 6 of Kevin Tancharoen‘s Mortal Kombat: Legacy (2011) stars Ryan Robbins, Tracy Spiridakos, Peter Hall, Lauro Chartrand, Sylvesta Stuart, and Larnell Stovall. Mortal Kombat: Legacy: Season 1, Episode 6′s plot synopsis: “When Lord Raiden, God of Thunder and protector of Earth, finds himself in an earthly mental institution in the year 2011, his ‘delusions’ are treated with some rather primitive forms of therapy (involving an Ect machine and an ice pick). Nonetheless, Blue, his beautiful, fragile yet insane fellow inmate, is Raiden’s only hope of escaping the mental hospital and making his way to the Mortal Kombat tournament to defend Earthrealm from Shao Khan.”

This is my favorite Mortal Kombat: Legacy episode hands down. I loved it. Kevin Tancharoen modified the storyline of Raiden (Ryan Robbins) in a fantastic way and made a possible plain story highly entertaining. *Spoiler: I...

The sixth episode for Kevin Tancharoen's Mortal Kombat: Legacy is now online and can be watched using the player below the description! When Lord Raiden, God of Thunder and protector of Earth, finds himself in an earthly mental institution in the year 2011, his 'delusions' are treated with some rather primitive forms of therapy (involving an Ect machine and an ice pick). Nonetheless, Blue, his beautiful, fragile yet insane fellow inmate, is Raiden's only hope of escaping the mental hospital and making his way to the Mortal Kombat tournament to defend Earthrealm from Shao Khan. In the episode written by Todd Helbing and Aaron Helbing, Ryan Robbins plays Raiden, Tracy Spiridakos is Blue and Peter Hall portrays Dr. Gadsen.

The sixth episode for Kevin Tancharoen's Mortal Kombat: Legacy is now online and can be watched using the player below the description! When Lord Raiden, God of Thunder and protector of Earth, finds himself in an earthly mental institution in the year 2011, his 'delusions' are treated with some rather primitive forms of therapy (involving an Ect machine and an ice pick). Nonetheless, Blue, his beautiful, fragile yet insane fellow inmate, is Raiden's only hope of escaping the mental hospital and making his way to the Mortal Kombat tournament to defend Earthrealm from Shao Khan. In the episode written by Todd Helbing and Aaron Helbing, Ryan Robbins plays Raiden, Tracy Spiridakos is Blue and Peter Hall portrays Dr. Gadsen.

Indie Roundup is your guide to what's new and upcoming in the independent film world. Pictured above, clockwise from top: Oliver Stone and Hugo Chavez, Monsters, The Taqwacores.

Fest Scene. The Cannes film festival has announced its opener: Ridley Scott's Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe (not pictured above, because we want to reserve that spot for actual indie films). That should make for a great red-carpet event, with the prospect of Crowe glowering politely at photographers. And it will serve its purpose: to draw attention to a slate of independent films not featuring household names. More information on the announcement at indieWIRE; predictions on what might play can be found, among other places, at IonCinema.

Deals. SXSW is not a market/festival, like Cannes, but it has, however, showcased or premiered a good number of films that have gone on to gain distribution. In the case of Gareth Edwards' Monsters,...