The Blue Drum

I started watching this on my nice Samsung TV that sounds great no matter what I stream on it. Unfortunately the dialogue was muffled, and if I turned up the volume enough to actually hear what they were saying, then the other sounds were way too loud. Did they have pillows over the mics??

To give this the benefit of the doubt, halfway through I switched to the Netflix app on my iPhone + my fancy earbuds. This was no better. I could seriously record better quality audio on my phone - as I assume we all could. What the heck? Ultimately not worth a watch or a listen IMO.

I already see that some other reviewers did not have the same experience, so YMMV. I hope you have better luck than I did!

... drum? Is that an actual saying or am I making this up? I kind of feel I have heard this before. But that is a thing with memories - if it's sayings or people we miss(ed). And that is the segway to this short movie - no pun intended as always of course.

Losing a loved one is never easy. I think I saw a teaser for this at a horror film festival last year. It could have been a different one that has a similar tone - grief but also trying to figure out a way to close a chapter of ones life ... to move forward! Which is only possible if you can say goodbye ... or find something out about yourself or a relative ... it is the latter in this one - drum(roll) please! No pun intended once again to close things off.

Can't hear anything, have to turn the sound WAY up, and when you do, everything sounds muffled. Sounds like they used a potato for a microphone. Couldn't get through more than 5 minutes of this 11 minute short because I was annoyed that I couldn't hear/understand most of what was being said... Also, I am not elderly, so personal hearing is not the issue here.

The acting seemed decent in the first few minutes I saw, but the sound effects would sound far away for something that happened supposedly near where people were interacting/talking, resulting in mis-matched sound-levels in the film as well.

A young woman , front to the expressions of not exactly simpathy of her aunt for the late brother and the desire of her boyfrient to help her, discovers, after the funeral of her father, a terible secret about family past.

A photo album, a sound under floor, a door and the message from her mother are basic pieces of a night not exactly comfortable but, in tradition of Spanish horror, offering the naked truth in clear - precise manner.

More than a simple good short horror, it is a profound inspired game of director with memories, imagination and emotions of viewer. And it works very well, easy feeling the states of Leticia.

It has potential to be a quite entertaining horor drama but... hey... who cares about entertaining the audience, right?

Let's just have a nice enough idea, half bake it, get some back-ups and lazily produce it!

An additional 15-20 minutes of nicely put together story will make this still a short film which won't make none of scream, "that's it?!" I can get this way of storytelling for an almost drunk uncle on Xmas.

Well, thank you, maybe they thought we're smart enough to put 2 and 2 together but hey.... we smart people hate it when others waste our time even for a tiny 16 minutes.

"They're smart enough to make a production, I thought they're smart enough to tell a story well," say I who must rant more because... I gotta meet the character limit.