Pitch Black

Sci-fi drama about a group of space travellers who are forced to land on a foreign planet, where their attempts to escape are hindered by underground mutants bent on a deadly feeding frenzy. With the planet basking in permanent sunlight, the group feel safe in the knowledge that the monsters can only survive in the dark. But a rare total eclipse is imminent, and so a dark battle between man and beast begins., Crew of crashed space transport tackle fellow passenger Riddick (Diesel), a serial murderer. The true threat to the crew turns out to be the planet’s flesh eating nocturnal creatures., In this science fiction thriller, a spaceship is transporting a disparate group of people to a far-away galactic outpost called New Mecca. Mechanical failures cause the craft to crash-land on an abandoned planet that has three suns and no night. The only member of the crew to survive is junior pilot Carolyn Fry (Radha Mitchell), while the passengers who climb from the wreckage include a police officer (Cole Hauser) and the prisoner he’s transporting, Riddick (Vin Diesel). As Fry and the other survivors survey the abandoned dwellings of the desert world while trying to decide what to do next, one of them is killed by a mutant creature living in an abandoned mining site. The vicious and bloodthirsty mutants, who live underground, have killed all previous inhabitants of the planet; they cannot stand sunlight, but research reveals that the planet has a total eclipse every 22 years, and the latest one is due any moment. Pitch Black was directed by David N. Twohy, who also made the sci-fi cult item, The Arrival., When a spaceship suffers mechanical failure and is forced to land on an alien world, its passengers’ attempts to escape are hindered by ravenous nocturnal monsters. With the planet basking in sunlight, the group feel safe in the knowledge that the creatures can only survive in the dark. But a rare total eclipse is imminent, and so a battle between man and beast begins., A spaceship transporting a convicted killer (Vin Diesel) to a new prison crashes on a remote planet in this science-fiction thriller. When night falls, it brings a dangerous—and perhaps deadly—surprise for the transport’s stranded passengers. Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David., A spaceship crashes on a desolate alien planet inhabited by nocturnal predators. The creatures’ fear of light seems to guarantee the survivors’ safety – but when an eclipse takes place, they face a desperate struggle to survive. Their only hope lies with a convicted murderer, who is equally at home in the darkness – but is far from trustworthy., Science fiction horror. When a spaceship crash lands on an alien world, the crash survivors – including a ruthless killer and the bounty hunter who captured him – face a race against time to escape the planet when they discover the main inhabitants of this world are ravenous nocturnal monsters. With the planet basking in sunlight and the creatures only able to live in darkness, the survivors presume they are safe from harm until they discover that a rare total eclipse is imminent. Their very survival is reliant on them finding a way off the planet., The murderous, nocturnal Riddick is the only man who can save the survivors from a downed spacecraft. In the bright, red landscape, they felt safe. But with all three moons in eclipse, they become the prey for the planet’s unseen hunters., A spaceship crashes on a remote planet and the survival of the stranded passengers may depend on a convict, whose special gift comes in handy when night falls., A deep space transporter crash-lands on a desolate planet circled by three suns. Among the survivors are pilot Radha Mitchell, mystic Keith David, cop Cole Hauser and convicted criminal Vin Diesel, and their first thoughts are of survival and escape. Then Mitchell finds out that the planet suffers a total eclipse every 22 years, which is when the hibernating, flesh-eating inhabitants awake and hunt. Now the race is on just to stay alive… David Twohy’s film switches from bleached out wasteland to fearful darkness as the suns disappear and the terror begins.