Winter Lily (2000)

Excellent adaptation.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

IMDb staff, please categorize this turkey appropriately! I love good horror films and so watched this due to the categorization..If I could, I'd remove the ridiculous "horror" tag and stick on thriller or even (bad) drama. The synopsis makes it seem that Lily is some sort of supernatural creature, a vampire, a werewolf perhaps. Nope. This is not a horror movie, it is a plain sicko flick that tries to justify itself by playing the taboo card multiple overdone times.The plot? Simple. Crazy husband and wife, dead barely pubescent daughter, dead adult family friend. Followed by eventually (probably) dead paying guest. Not a smidgen of horror movie anywhere, instead this turkey takes you thru a slow whatever beginning to then one after another pop up A) Gross and completely gratuitous scene of man gutting skinned rabbit B) Guy waking up and explicitly vomiting for no reason and with no prior sign of discomfort C) Supposedly normal adult B&B customer --who looks and sounds about 15-- male becoming instantly inexplicably obsessed with never seen or heard barely 14 year old girl through reading melodramatic diary entry D) Dramatization of diary entry (or possibly dream after reading it) of barely 14 girl putting various clothing items over a fire screen while wearing an open shirt and a pair of panties, and her father screaming "How dare you come down here NAKED!" in such a way it;s clear he is a pedophile E) barely 14 year old girl being comforted by adult family friend alone in her bedroom, telling him that her mother and father know she is ill and want her to die F) barely 14 year old and adult family friend meeting in barn for intromission after a couple of kisses G) Obsessed customer waking up next to corpse of barely 14 year old girl H) later having intercourse with corpse I) pedophile dad revealed as murderer of daughter and family friend.And finally, as many bodies as the last act of Hamlet. Boring, stupid, shlock.

Well, this sure was an odd one; like another reviewer said it had a LOT of potential and I do not know who the director was, but it was like rather than getting a good hold on you, the director just kind of let's you run through his fingers like sand (OOH, how's that for a metaphor : ) Anyway... I give a LOT of weight to Slasherpool's reviews (Anrthro Fred) Sadly, he discontinued his site a couple of years ago. I've scrounged around and found their old site which only goes up to about 2002 (where I saw a review of this film and why I rented it and watched it) And on Rotten Tomatoes Slasherpool's page is still there but all the review pages are gone; all there is, is a single, tantalizing sentence that goes with each film.So, I got exactly 38 minutes through this thing and it was moving SO damn slowly and NOT very much was happening; so I turned it off. Then I went back and read his review again and he REALLY liked it and compared it to 'THE SHINING' Well, I don't know quite exactly WHAT it was he was smoking right at that moment, but I sure would love some! And the sad thing is is that there is a REALLY good premise that COULD have been super duper creepy if the damn director had any clue at all. I mean this film had the potential to be a true CULT film if it had been done properly, but alas, no... And, if you have read my comments and reviews before, you KNOW that it is not that I don't like really slow or subtle films, so save the 'Oh, why don't you go and watch 'TRANSFORMERS' comment, okay... No, I frigg'n LOVE slow building and even very simple films; an excellent example of a director who actually DOES know how to do that quite well in a bloody awesome Old School kind of way is Ti West from Glass Eye Pix. Now HIS films are super slow, intense suspense builders; and the premises are usually pretty simple. But unfortunately this one misses the mark in just about every way. I'm not saying it is HORRIBLE or anything, it just falls WAY short in all departments where it really, REALLY could have been awesome... I mean, even if the atmosphere and mood could have been WAY, WAY tighter and stronger and everything else remained the same, even THAT may have carried it. But just gazing out at the barren, snowy landscape without much else is NOT exactly my idea of building suspense or creating even CLOSE to a creepy enough mood to fit this story. A REAL missed opportunity...Even though I felt that it was a VERY weak film, I gave it a 5 because it's not that it had that many negative elements that brought it down; it's just that it simply did not actually HAVE enough strength or substance to carry the potentially excellent premise and elements that were there to work with.If you really do not like slow films at all, absolutely skip this one...

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.

Was very disappointed with this movie. I appreciate that its small budget but it really had no plot and the story had so many holes you could drain your pasta through it.Nothing much else to say except don't bother...