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A woman mourning her father’s passing is spooked by eerie noises in her family home, leading to the unraveling of some terrible secrets.
Directed and written by Angelita Mendoza, The Blue Drum follows a young woman called Leticia (Crystal Hernandez) who is hosting her father’s funeral and is upset by the indifference of her immediate relatives. For Leticia, her father was “good” enough, but others seem to disagree…
Only about 15 minutes long, The Blue Drum is a glum horror movie that needed more time to build its characters and themes. Crystal Hernandez, as the grieving Leticia, doesn’t pull the viewer in, and her frustrations over relatives behaving like “vultures” as soon as her father is gone don’t have the emotional weight needed to make a small film like this hit you in the gut.
While director Angelita Mendoza does convincingly build some suspense around Leticia’s family house and its dark history, the eventual climactic twist feels anticlimactic, despite packing in a solid twist. The Blue Drum basically ends with a soft, underwhelming thud instead of an exciting bang.
You can watch The Blue Drum on Netflix.
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