Rating: R
Genres:
Science Fiction
Horror
Theatrical Release: 02/18/2000(USA)
Release Date: 03/22/2009
Flags: Graphic Violence, Profanity, Sci-Fi Violence
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
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.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
