12 minutes. One mother. A masked figure that might be her own unraveling.
Kimberly, a working woman and mother of twins, begins to experience strange situations when she arrives home with her family. The lines between delirium and reality become blurred for Kimberly when she begins to be tormented by a masked figure.
Acting
Stephanie Cardone's unraveling is uncomfortably visceral.
Direction
Murillo packs feature-length dread into 12 tight minutes.
Sound
The silence between twin cries? Absolutely cursed.
Director
André Murillo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Spanish title 'Nido Vacío' literally means 'empty nest'—a phrase usually reserved for parents sending kids to college, twisted here into something far more sinister.
Murillo uses the 12-minute constraint brilliantly: the runtime mirrors how quickly a stable mind can destabilize when deprived of sleep and certainty.
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