A miniature artist is commissioned to re create a gruesome crime scene for the local police department, unknowingly opening the doors for an evil entity.
Our Halloween Marathon is running (where we update with new reviews daily during October!), but we’re still having the weekly Horror Short Sundays of course. And this time we’re taking a look at In A Nutshell. A creepy horror short where a woman gets a commission to create a “dollhouse” based on photos from the actual crime scene, only to find something strange starts happening once she paints the killer’s symbol on the miniature house walls…
Director: Ryan Valdez
Writer: Ryan Valdez
Country & year: USA, 2025
Actors: Sarah Palmer, Ivan Djurovic, Hannah Risinger, Sarah Nicklin, Zoë Kasch, Mia Kasch
Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/film/in-a-nutshell-2025/crew/
