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Release Date
• USA: Feb 18, 2000
• UK: 1 Apr 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 24, 2000
• R2: 28 May 2001
Budget $23,000,000
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for sci-fi violence and gore, and for language.
Running Time
1 hour, 50 minutes
Country Australia, USA
Production Companies
Interscope Communications, Intrepid Pictures
Studio Gramercy Pictures, Interscope Communications
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Other Titles
• Pitch Black (2000)
• Nightfall
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black
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Genre: Action, Thriller, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Aliens, Monsters, Space, Suspense, Fantasy, Futuristic
Tagline: Fight Evil With Evil
Plot: A spacecraft carrying an assortment of passengers including Riddick (Vin Diesel), a dangerous, shackled murderer between prisons, is forced to make a crash landing on a barren, triple-sunned planet after the craft suffers severe damage during a meteor shower. The ship is ripped into pieces, killing several crew members and leaving meek officer Fry (Radha Mitchell) in charge of the survivors. After two unfortunate deaths, the survivors discover that the only visible life form on the planet is a species of light-fearing, carnivorous, occasionally cannibalistic aliens dwelling in caverns beneath the desert surface. Using a model of the planet and its suns in an abandoned research station, Fry deduces that she and her fellow travellers have unfortunately descended on the planet on the day of its first total eclipse in 22 years, giving them mere hours before they are bathed in total darkness. Only then is it safe for the hungry subterranean creatures to emerge, seeking to feed on the remaining survivors. However, the dangerous Riddick, through black market injections received in lock-up, is able to see in darkness- causing the surviving crew members to reluctantly remain dependent on the potentially harmful criminal. As the survivors are killed one by one by the hungry creatures,
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Director/co-writer Twohy certainly tries his best to make a suspenseful and fun film, but the problem is that no character really stands-out (or is likeable) and the feeling that this is a clone of other, better, movies never leaves you.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
...the film is at its most effective, interestingly, when you cannot even see the hunters. Tension and psychological terror is Pitch Black's most effective weapon. More than anything else, Pitch Black is a lot of fun, slick, fast, and smart. Even if it is just a dumb action flick.  --Jack Witzig (ColdSpot)
With a low budget, stellar cinematography, scary special effects, exploitation of Mitchell’s ample babe attributes, "Pitch Black" certainly delivers the goods as a horror film.-- (eSplatter.com)
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| Directed by |
David Twohy
The Chronicles of Riddick, The Arrival, Below |
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| Written by |
Jim Wheat
The Chronicles of Riddick, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, After Midnight | Ken Wheat
The Chronicles of Riddick, The Birds II: Land's End, Rattled |
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| Cast |
Vin Diesel
Saving Private Ryan, The Fast and the Furious, xXx |
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 | Cole Hauser
Good Will Hunting, Dazed and Confused, Tears of the Sun |
 | Keith David
There's Something About Mary, Armageddon, Crash |
 | Claudia Black
Queen of the Damned, Farscape, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars |
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Graeme Revell
Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider |
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Pitch Black, a great idea gone terribly wrong. Pitch Black is a movie about a plane that crashes with one of the most dangerous fugitives on it played by everyone’s favorite Van Diesel.  --Mr Disgusting (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
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