Pitch Black

2000 Sci Fi

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. more..

Director: David Twohy

Starring: Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Claudia Black

Reviews

  • So jaunty, so limber, and so visually self-assured that art peeks through where crap has traditionally made its home.

    Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly

    26 April 2013

  • Just may be the most entertainingly derivative movie of the millennium so far.

    Sara Wildberger - Miami Herald

    26 April 2013

  • By far the best thing about Pitch Black is the cool-looking lighting and photography.

    Jonathan Foreman - New York Post

    26 April 2013

  • Clever, done with skill, yet lacking in the cerebral imagination of the best science fiction.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    26 April 2013

  • Nothing really fun, scary or exceptionally gross occurs.

    Susan Wloszczyna - USA Today

    26 April 2013

Awards

  • Best Science Fiction Film

    Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films (2000)

     
  • David Eggby

    Australian Cinematographers Society (2001)

  • Favorite Actor - Horror (Internet Only)

    Blockbuster Entertainment Awards (2001)

     
  • Screenplay

    Bram Stoker Awards (2001)

     
  • Best Movie

    International Horror Guild (2001)