About the film
- Directed by
- Lam Ngai Kai
- Released
- October 22, 1992
- Certification
- IIB
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Starring
- Gloria Yip Wan-Yee, Waise Lee Chi-Hung, Christine Ng Wing-mei, Lau Siu-Ming, Lawrence Lau Sek-Yin
More credits
- Language
- Cantonese
- Origin
- HK
- Studios
- Paragon Films, Orange Sky Golden Harvest
- Written by
- Chan Hing-Kai, Gordon Chan
- Produced by
- Chua Lam, Michael Lai Siu-Tin
- Cinematography
- Mak Hoi-Man
- Music
- Philip Chan Fei-Lit
- Also starring
- Phillip Kwok Chui, Ni Kuang, Wan Seung-Lam, Kong Long, Chua Lam
A centuries-old alien in the body of a house cat is stranded on Earth, hunting for the weapon that will allow him to destroy an ancient enemy and return home.
THE CAT (1992), known in Cantonese as Wai Si Lei Ji Lo Mau, adapts Wisely’s Old Cat, one of Ni Kuang’s Wisely science fiction novels, with Ni Kuang himself appearing onscreen as Mr. Chen.
Waise Lee plays Wisely, an adventure novelist who becomes obsessed with a strange girl (Gloria Yip), her elderly guardian, and their cat General after a string of bizarre deaths. The trio are extraterrestrials pursuing a fungal monster that can possess human bodies, and when it takes over police inspector Wang (Phillip Kwok), Wisely finds himself caught in the middle of an interstellar war.
Director Lam Ngai Kai throws together practical creature effects, gunfights, and body horror with gleeful disregard for restraint, producing something that plays like a Hong Kong answer to John Carpenter's The Thing by way of a ’70s live-action Disney premise, capped by a cat-versus-dog junkyard brawl that has to be seen to be believed. Christine Ng and Lawrence Lau round out a cast that treats the absurd plot with total commitment.
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