In horror, as in all genres, inventive storytelling always trumps budgets or effects, and that fact is once again demonstrated by the creatively creepy Man Finds Tape.

Filtering found-footage action through a true-crime frame while indulging in creepypasta imagery and irrationality, Paul Gandersman and Peter S. Hall’s thriller, in theaters Dec. 5, is a Frankensteinian creature feature that mixes and matches forms to tell a beguiling tale of a brother and sister confronting unholy goings-on that may have been recorded for posterity on baffling videotapes. Conjuring inhuman visions it refuses to fully explain, it’s an assured directorial debut about media reliability that unnerves by embracing the unknown.

Like so many early 21st-century J-horror efforts, Man Finds Tape is an illogical ni

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