Alien-inspired horror anime that was \u2018censored\u2019 is available to stream 20th Century Studios\/Discotek MediaWe may never see the actual Alien vs Predator anime sitting in Disney\u2019s vault, but an \u201980s horror anime heavily drawing from Ridley Scott\u2019s original film will scratch that itch still. Alien: Romulus has everyone in the mood for Xenomorphs, and although revisiting all the Alien movies is always a blast, there aren\u2019t that many installments to watch. Very few of even the best sci-fi movies boast the same vibe or aesthetic, either. Then there\u2019s Lily C.A.T, a relatively obscure anime movie from 1987 directed by Hisayuki Toriumi, that draws heavily on both Alien and John Carpenter\u2019s The Thing to strong effect. And thankfully, you can watch the whole thing on Amazon Prime Video. Lily C.A.T. makes its influences apparent early on, focusing on a crew on a mining expedition who\u2019re in cryo-sleep when things start to go wrong. Something inhuman has crept on board, and two among them have been infected. The murderous creature continues to pick off crew-members while everyone works to figure out what\u2019s going on and get off the ship. It\u2019s a quick, stylish, atmospheric picture that delivers some good thrills without overstaying its welcome. Streamline Pictures released an English dub and subtitled version in the \u201990s on VHS, before Discotek Media put it out on DVD in 2014. SyFy showed it on TV in-between, using the distinctly of-the-era advertising above. These versions have caused some confusion, because they\u2019re purportedly shorter than Lily C.A.T.\u2019s original Japanese cut. Our version, the one you can openly buy, is 67 minutes long. The belief is that\u2019s actually 24 minutes shorter than the version from Japan, where the runtime was 91 minutes. The DVD case lists this runtime, as does the Amazon listing for the home media version. Where this information comes from is difficult to discern. Despite being a genuine cult hit, there\u2019s not a lot to go on for Lily C.A.T., other than the fact it exists and you can easily enjoy it. Alas, we may never know, such is the nature surrounding importing anime in the \u201980s and \u201990s. Have a read about why Alien 3 deserve better than its reputation and what we know about Alien: Earth after you\u2019ve checked out this offshoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alien-inspired horror anime that was \u2018censored\u2019 is available to stream 20th Century Studios\/Discotek MediaWe may never see the actual Alien vs Predator anime sitting in Disney\u2019s vault, but an \u201980s horror anime heavily drawing from Ridley Scott\u2019s original film will scratch that itch still. Alien: Romulus has everyone in the mood for Xenomorphs, and although […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}