Little-Henry I admit it. On a recent Monday I was so deplorably bored that I sat through this entire movie. I wanted to change the channel but could not. I tried to leave but something made me stay until the mystery of Lily was (thank god) finally unraveled.There's no real way of describing why this movie is so bad. There's worse acting out there, worse camera-work. There might even be a worse screenplay. That's stretching it, however. Maybe it has something to do with the unbelievability of the characters and the setting. Maybe too much of it seemed like a blatant attempt to disturb an audience with taboo subjects that have been handled dozens of times in better movies and more realistic scenarios. Or maybe it's because I get upset seeing someone locked inside a room for hours at a time (a room on the second storey with a large window opening outside), and they give up trying to escape after jiggling the handle a couple of times.Please, take my advice and save those two hours of your own life by avoiding Winter Lily.

ThrownMuse They should have named this "What's the Matter with Lily?," as a nod to 60s and 70s horror films that ask such rhetorical questions about their female pro/antagonists. Clive, a young photographer, stays at a secluded Canadian bed & breakfast in the dead of winter. The hotel is run by a very off-kilter woman who talks non-stop about her bed-ridden daughter, Lily. Clive finds the girl's diary and becomes obsessed with her. Lily's story unravels and Clive discovers what horrifying events led to the girl's current predicament. This is a creepy little movie with a wintry atmosphere that works in its favor, but it moves at a snails pace and is rather predictable. The lead actor (and his character, for that matter) is annoying, though Dorothee Berryman is delightfully wacky as the innkeeper.

BigMovieFan_ I had never heard of Winter Lily, but caught it playing on Showcase in Canada. You can tell pretty quick that this is a Canadian film; it just has that quality to it.Winter Lily had great potential to be a really scary film - Lily's mother does a fantastic job at being creepy - but it just never gets to that threshold. It seems to build suspense and then release it before you get a chance to get scared, or jumpy, or nervous. I found myself anticipating shockers that never came.Don't rent it if you want to watch a scary movie. If you don't set high expectations, it has a few disturbing ideas and a decent story that will make it worth watching. I enjoyed it.

hero_worship This movie is pretty good throughout, but it's the ending that's really cool; it's how a thriller should end. The setting and cast are also great assets to the film, especially Danny Gilmore, NICE! I did find a few lame parts to the film though, such as Clive's "connection" to Lily, I'm not exactly sure where that came from. As an interesting film I give it a 6 out of 10, but add a great ending and I give it a 7. I'm not sure why it's considered a horror film though. It does have an eerie feel to it, but if you're looking for gore, there's not much here. Not that that's a bad thing, I think the coldness and eeriness do it justice. A twisted thriller? Yes. Horror? Not really.