Other Lily
About Other Lily
On a rainy night Lily is home with her younger sister Beth while their father is away. She finds Beth asleep beside a drawing of the two of them and a third figure, a warped copy labeled Other Lily. After midnight Lily wakes unable to move, sees Beth in the doorway, then watches long fingers open the window. When she can move again the phone is dead, glass breaks, and she swings a baseball bat at the double.
Cast & crew
More about Other Lily
David Romero wrote and animated the short and posted it to Vimeo on November 6, 2015, under an attribution license. His line on the film is that Lily’s sleep paralysis may be doing something to her waking life.
Themes
Making
Romero had already been posting horror cartoons under the name Cinemamind, with a Tumblr at cinemamind.tumblr.com and a blog at corpseplanet.blogspot.com. Other Lily went up the same way as his other Vimeo shorts: one animator, no credited cast, and a CC BY 3.0 license.
Reviews
Pat O’Sullivan covered the short for Bloody Disgusting’s World of Death series on October 19, 2017, episode 124. He set the wordless stretches next to the opening of WALL-E and wrote that the thin script sat against Romero’s images.
Audiences
Viewers split on whether Beth is seeing a creature or Lily’s other face. A Villains Wiki page later wrote the double up as its own character, and a July 2026 lore video walked the rainy-night sequence shot by shot.
Preservation
The Harvett Vault copied the Vimeo file to Wikimedia Commons on July 6, 2022, after GRuban checked the CC BY 3.0 license.
Notes
- A frame early in the short shows Lily in a baseball uniform with a bat.
- Lets Read posted a hosted copy on February 6, 2017, under the spelling Other Lilly.
- Romero put the film on his YouTube channel on May 3, 2017, tagged cinemamind, monster, and ghost.
- IMDb lists him as both director and writer and clocks the short at 5 minutes, in color.
- The Commons file is 1,280 by 720, VP9 with Opus audio, about 38.89 MB.
Scenes
- Lily looks at Beth’s drawing and finds a third figure labeled Other Lily.
- Stuck in bed at 3 a.m., she watches bony fingers push the window open.
- A swing of the baseball bat turns the creature’s face into Beth’s for a moment.
Also available
- Vimeo (144860463)
- Wikimedia Commons (David Romero - Other Lily (2015).webm)
