I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

"Lily C.A.T." is a Science Fiction/Horror anime OVA from 1987, directed by Hisayuki Toriumi.Basic plot: The year is 2264, and captain Mike Hamilton and his crew (including a cat) are sent on a mission to explore a newfound planet, 20 years away from home. And so they find out something is wrong, two of the members are impostors in the spaceship. And suddenly members of the crew begin to die, one by one, by a deadly virus.This anime has to be one of the classic Science Fiction anime I've seen. The animation itself is pretty typical, but great for an Sci-Fi-Anime being made in the late 80s. The character development was a little bit unoriginal but passable. Like some of the users here on IMDb said before me, several of the elements put into this anime somehow reminded me about "Alien", and even "The Thing" (1982). Also, several of the killings taken place throughout this OVA are bloody as well. By the way, I have to admit that the blonde Nancy Stroustrup is the most attractive character in this anime, just my opinion.However, the scene in which Nancy's cat is getting killed might disturb any animal lovers. For this, as well as the bloody violence in general, this anime is not to be watched by children, just to have that said.Also just to have it said, the cat scream which appears after the end credits was kinda creepy.Do you like any mature oriented anime being set in outer space, I suggest you to try to look for this one at least once. My overall rating: 8/10.Several other notable anime set in space include: "Cosmo Police Justy" (1985), "They Were Eleven" (1986) and "Hell Target" (1987).

I, too, loved this movie. Like the other reviewers, I first saw it on the Sci-Fi Channel's Anime Week's ROBOT CARNIVAL. Lily C.A.T., whose plot is directly lifted from James Cameron's Alien, is about the crew of an STL, (Slower-than-light,) starship, who age one year for every 20 years they're in space. The crew is told that there's a prisoner on board by Detective Dick Berry, who's come aboard to return an escaped criminal to Earth to face justice. Then there's a mysterious virus that's killing the crew. The ships captain asks Dick Berry if he's sure he wants to return the criminal to Earth for trial since it will be 20 years before they return to Earth, and all the witnesses will be either old or dead. H E R E B E S P O I L E R S The captain tells Dick Berry that they're all over a hundred years old though they look like they're much younger. Finally, Berry agrees with the captain that it's not worth it. Lily, one of the crewmembers' pet cat, is actually the source of the virus. It's Lily C.A.T., the ultimate biological weapon. Lily C.A.T. starts killing the rest of the crew. Finally, Captain Hamilton, tells Berry to save himself and his prisoner and says that there's a planet nearby and that they should leave before Lily C.A.T. finds them. He provides them with a means of escape, (an obsolete space shuttle that he'd kept as a souvenir.) and orders them off the ship. Lily C.A.T. senses that they're trying to escape, and goes after them. They finally and escape, and presumably land on the planet. That's where it ended.

The first time i saw this in the early 90's I loved it and I recently re-watched it (2002) and still loved it, it lost a bit of it's surprise though. The characters start get knocked off pretty quick, but the animation is good for it's time. Like Aliens series...then watch this!

Okay, not an original film (plot easily taken from ALIEN.) But for anime, it's much better than most of the 90's garbage, without being too silly. Animation is good (think TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE.) And the dubbed version would probably better to see than the Japanese version as the dubbed version uses different ethnic type voices to represent the different characters. Not perfect, but I would give it a 7 out of 10.