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“Space colonists awaken to find impostors among them as crew members mysteriously die.”
Lily C.A.T.
LILY-C.A.T.
6.01
10,612 rank · 12,878 viewers · 12 favorites
Horror
Sci-Fi
Space
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Synopsis
Space colonists awaken to find impostors among them as crew members mysteriously die.
In the age of space colonization, different corporations eagerly claim planets for their own. One such corporation, Syncam, sponsors a crew of seasoned shipmen and fresh-faced recruits to remain in stasis for 20 years until they reach their destination. When they wake, however, they receive a message that two crew members are criminals using assumed identities. Now forced to investigate one another, crew members begin disappearing and dying in strange ways. As their numbers continue to dwindle, the remaining crew is forced to wonder just who—or what—is on their ship.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 10 sampled reviews
6.1
/10
What 10 viewers settled on.
67%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 7
σ 2.84
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.84 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.8 pts
Recommenders 8.2 · others 2.3
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No
Score over time
↓ 0.90
Running avg · Jun 2011 → Aug 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “You've heard already, Lily C.A.T. is a mashup of Alien and The Thing with a few twists of its own. We get the opening 5 minutes that introduce all the people we're about to see get got and then...”
- 9 “An incredibly hard movie to find these days , I first saw these kind of movies through DVDs and CDs. To me, and presumably a number of others, there was something special about Robotech. For all...”
- 10 “I found the artwork of Lily C.A.T perfect for it's icy and desolate feel of deep space, where the danger exists both inside as well as outside. In many ways, I can't help but compare it to movies...”
Verbosity
Short · 30%
Medium · 60%
Long · 10%
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- Format 1 × 67′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 07m all episodes
- Aired Sep 1987 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R+ Mild Nudity
- Ref. BS-2904 catalog
Produced by
- Victor Entertainment Producer
- Streamline Pictures Producer
Licensed by
- Discotek Media Licensor