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A cat from outer space teams up with a young girl and an old man to fight a murderous alien that possesses people.
The Cat
1992 ‘衛斯理之老貓’ Directed by Lam Nai-Choi
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The 1000 Years Cat, Lo mau, Wesley le vieux chat, El gato, 캣츠, 卫斯理之老猫, Wiselyho stará kočka
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22 Oct 1992
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”A cat from outer space teams up with a young girl and an old man to fight a murderous alien that possesses people”
with a plot like that, how can you not have alittle bit of fun?I’m purposely watching every Lam Nai Choi movie I can get my hands on before experiencing the infamous Riki-Oh.
The Seventh Curse? Solid.
The Cat? intergalactic Hong Kong absurd lunacy, so delightfully insane. A horror novelist teams up with a young girl that flies, a beautiful green-eyed black alien cat that has cat-fu-like reflexes, and an older gentleman that are on a mission to fight to save the planet, one alien monster at a time! a tentacle-slimy-being forces itself into men and hobos, inhabiting… -
The back half of this movie shits gold.
Sure, the front forty minutes feels like a third-tier Golden Harvest flick, with one scene being shot through a dirty ass lens, lots of clunky writing, shit subs, trademark sexism, and a couple of notable cool alien monster scenes...
(And of course, seeing the Golden Harvest logo come up before a movie always fills my heart with joy.)
But then Lao Pu the dog and General the cat go for a full ten round junk-yard animal-fu death match and we’re suddenly reminded that, yes - of course - this was the last film from Lam Nai-Choi, his follow up to the legendary Riki-Oh and his eleventh movie made over the course of…
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Tops the Wisely adventure Ngai Choi Lam directed six years prior (THE SEVENTH CURSE) in budget and gonzo excess (and epic cat vs. dog junkyard brawls). Lam directed this and STORY OF RICKY back to back then never made another movie. I can only assume he clapped the dust off his hands and quietly returned to whatever magical planet of latex gore and black comedy from which he came, his mission accomplished. Thank you for sharing your cartoon visions with us, Mr. Lam. Maybe one day we'll fully understand and appreciate them.
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Magical girl and cat are Aliens. Save the Universe while Sparkling. Did Lisa Frank write this?
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Points for creativity, atmosphere, unique fight set-ups, and the political metaphor sitting idly in the fore, but for what good all this conjures The Cat is a bunch of non-sequitur set-pieces and plot points that’s too unorganized for its own good. It’s probably what one would categorize as a beautiful mess, before forgetting about it completely, until sometime years down the road you witnessed a ferocious domestic animal fight summoning forth the memory of the utter insanity which is the grudge match here between a big bull-mastiff and a fluffy Halloween cat. This is not me throwing shade at the refreshing practical effects going on (which are mostly delightful), but not much else is happening here. Probably not worth it for most and certainly a must-watch for fans of the director who brought us 1991’s Story of Ricky.
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A slice of early 90s HK insanity featuring 3 extra terrestrial beings disguised as a man, a young girl and a cat called The General, who have to defeat the enemy and return to their home star. Lots of batshittery ensues, including, but not limited to: stealing a sculpture from a museum (referred to throughout as an octagon, but which in no way resembles an octagon), the recruitment of a massive black dog to track down the cat (leading to an awesome junkyard showdown between the two), a guy setting fire to himself with vodka and jumping off the roof into a swimming pool, and a vagrant who turns into a giant pulsating mushroom and subsequently gives birth to The Terminator.
I don't think anyone has given this bizarro gem a decent release which is a shame, as it's exactly the kind of flying alien cat live action cartoon bullshit I'd happily spend money on.
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You're telling me a fluffy black cat is the conduit to stop a giant Lovecraftian monster? Ode to the black cat! Magically Argentonian with rich blue lights indicating a break in space where nightmarish goo and a Terminator villian shall enter. Reminds me of the other two alien films we nabbed for the Collab, an explanation is not necessary as the mystery unfolds allowing us to venture into the unknown. Dreamy and yet a little silly, taps the childlike wonder of ET with the adventure of Indiana Jones. Ancient Annunaki artifacts are collected before space monsters destroy us! Such is my childhood obsession with films like Homeward Bound and Milo & Otis is the impressive way a director can edit or…
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THE CAT is epic. That’s really the only word for it. Everything about this film is larger than life, from the endless, fiery explosions to the throbbing alien that digests bodies until there’s nothing left but grisly skeletons. The practical effects are nonstop, each more stunning than the last. There are melted bodies, oozing eyeballs, and severed limbs. Also a cat. There are stop-motion alien beasties, writhing tentacles, and a gun deal that goes horribly right. Also a cat. There are countless men set on fire, diarrhea that gushes into a hobo’s mouth, and a woman who serves a giant tray of crabs in slow motion. Also a cat. And just when you thought the movie couldn’t get any better,…
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Scavenger of Human Sorrow (A Spooky Season Marathon)
Ok, I still haven't written a review for Leptirica, which we watched on Friday, and I usually prefer to do these things in the order I watched them, but fuck it... I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS GLORIOUS MONSTROSITY RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!
I mean, WHAT THE FUCK EVEN IS THIS?!?!
Okay... deep breath. I'm calm. SERIOUSLY!!! WTF?!?!
Brain... melted. Runny goop dribbling out of my ears.
Oh, it's from the guy who directed Riki-Oh! Well, that makes sense. Cuz this shit is bonkers, bugnuts, batshit, fucking holy smokes... it's CINEMATIC LUNACY!!!! Like, I want whatever drugs ol' Lam Nai-Choi was mainlining. Hook me up.
But seriously, this thing…
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👾Daily Horror Hunt #26 (Aug. 2020)👾
[27] Watch a horror film with a very good cat!”A cat from outer space teams up with a young girl and an old man to fight a murderous alien that possesses people”
... Okay summary, you had me at “cat from outer space”, but then I discover this was made by Lam Nai-Choi, director of Riki-Oh and The Seventh Curse! Yeah, no surprise this is kinda sorta AMAZING!
The story starts out a bit slow, a bit too talky, and a bit confusing, but quickly picks up once the action starts getting wild. I'm just gonna say, that fight between Lao Pu the Dog and General the Cat may be one of the…
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Hong Kong filmmakers certainly have the ability to take a multitude of different ideas and make their own pastiche movie out of them. When you have finished watching one of these movies, you will often exclaim what the actual fuck out loud to yourself!
The Cat is a science-fiction/ fantasy/ horror* hybrid, about an alien girl (baby-faced Gloria Yip) and her (equally alien) cat, living in Hong Kong, collecting mystical objects to defeat a giant monster/ demon with.
It has some inventive practical effects that reminded me of The Thing, it contains a scene that wouldn't be out of place in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and has a group of people that is basically the Hong Kong equivalent of the men in black.
Also, it probably has the most cinematic/ epic cat vs. dog fight in any film ever!
*This is a cat. IIb movie, which is roughly the same as PG-13
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I too am a proud pet mom to a black floof (pic of my boy for proof) and I can attest to like 80% of the mischief General gets into; does that make my cat an alien from outer space? Yeah, probably. But pretty sure all cats are.
Anyway, this was a lot of fun and super violent: poppin' eyeballs, melty faces, a cat/dog fight scene in a scrapyard (that's pretty impressively filmed—but also had me questioning their safety at times), and a final boss that reminds me of something I'd see in a Resident Evil game.
I still don't know if covering a cat in glitter is a good idea tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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