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      Lily C.A.T.

      1987 1h 7m Sci-Fi Horror Animation List
      Reviews 55% Audience Score 100+ Ratings The crew of an interplanetary starship fights for survival after an alien force takes control of their craft. Read More Read Less

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      Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed In the realm of “Alien” knock offs, this is top tier. Oct 3, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member Sure, Lily C.A.T. is Alien, but isn't Alien also Queen of Blood, Planet of the Vampires and It! The Terror from Beyond Space? Hey, what if they throw in some of The Thing too? The Syncam Corporation is investigating a new planet and has hired the deep-space cruiser Saldes to take a hypersleep trip of 20 years — which will feel like a month for its crew — to see what they can find. At least two of the crew are imposters and one of them is definitely a killer, which gets worse when each dead body disappears, a victim of a super bacteria, while another member of the crew — perhaps one you'd least expect — is something more than they seem. Director Hisayuki Toriumi directed Gatchaman, the anime that was translated here as Battle of the Planets, while writer Hiroyuki Hoshiyama wrote episodes of The Ultraman, Urusei yatsura and Mobile Suit Gundam. These shows will not prepare you for how gory this movie is, even in its American version. That's due to creature designer Yoshitaka Amano, who worked on Gatchaman and Vampire Hunter D. My favorite part of this is when the captain explains how once you start time jumping, the things you are working for and the people you are making the money for no longer matter and you become forgotten. It's a shockingly raw and honest moment of pain in the midst of a science fiction gore cartoon. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Entertaining enough, but highly and obviously derivative. Borrows heavily from Alien and Carpenter's The Thing. One character's big speech is lifted almost directly from Joe Haldeman's novel The Forever War. A great source material but plagerism... Has some decent surprises and some fun, weird gore (but not enough). Character designs by Yoshitaka Amano but it is not obvious. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member An incredibly hard movie to find these days, I first saw this obscure anime during the early years of the sci-fi channel, when they ran Saturday anime blocks. i remember it being highly entertaining, and a lot like the film 'Alien.' If you can track it down, it's worth a watch Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Lily C.A.T.

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      Synopsis The crew of an interplanetary starship fights for survival after an alien force takes control of their craft.
      Director
      Hisayuki Toriumi
      Producer
      Yuji Nunokawa, Hideaki Suda
      Screenwriter
      Hiroyuki Hoshiyama
      Production Co
      Victor Musical Industries
      Genre
      Sci-Fi, Horror, Animation
      Original Language
      Japanese
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jun 9, 2018
      Runtime
      1h 7m