Pitch Black Movie Review (2024)

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Was Pitch Black a good movie? ›

Despite an interesting premise (and a starmaking turn from Vin Diesel), Pitch Black is too derivative and formulaic to fully recommend to sci-fi or action fans.

Some scenes has that wow factor while it as a whole is a bit better than average. It could maybe be described as a cult movie and it is definitely a recommendation for people who wants a spiced up sci-fi story blended with some minor psychological moments and an intriguing protagonist, namely Riddick.

A deep space transporter crash-lands on a desolate planet circled by three suns. Among the survivors are pilot Carolyn Fry, mystic Abu `Imam' al-Walid, cop William J Johns and convicted criminal Richard B Riddick, and their first thoughts are of survival and escape. Then Fry finds out that the planet suffers a total eclipse every 22 years, which is when the hibernating, flesh-eating inhabitants awake and hunt.

Pitch Black / Film synopsis

Pitch Black was the final film credit of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, which merged with Universal Pictures during production. It was shot on a modest budget of US$23 million.

Pitch Black was an amazing movie on it's own. It was DARK, gritty, scary with those menacing beasts that only lived in the dark. But the sequels just didn't have that element of DARK, scary eeriness that first movie had. I watched chronicles first and liked it a lot.

The phrase derives as a variant of “ as black as pitch”. Pitch is the sticky, resinous, black or dark brown substance that is obtained as a residue from the distillation of wood tar or turpentine. The phrase is said to be first recorded in several 14th century English texts.

Bioraptors are natives of the planet M6-117 in the M-344/G System. Over time, these vicious hunters grew so numerous that they eventually wiped out all surface life in the world, forcing them to either survive off eating one another, or possibly subterranean prey, but the latter is unlikely.

The Chronicles of Riddick is a 2004 American science fiction action film written and directed by David Twohy. It is a sequel to Pitch Black (2000) and the second installment in the Riddick film series.

ˈpich-ˈblak. : extremely dark or black.

Vin Diesel said of filming in the South Australian outback mining town of Coober Pedy in South Australia that the location "is an amazing place in the middle of the desert; not a tree, not a thing in sight, other than dirt. A few houses make up the 'town' of about two thousand people.

What caused the crash in Pitch Black? ›

Debris from a comet causes a transport ship to crash on a distant planet. The survivors include a vicious convict named Riddick, a tough guy named William Johns (Cole Hauser), and a docking pilot named Carolyn Fry (Radha Mitchell).

The movie features very strong sci-fi violence, creature attacks, and gore. Several characters die, including main characters. There's a huge spaceship crash. We see splatters of blood.

In space, the three survivors; the Imam, "Jack" and Riddick, are relieved that their ordeal is over and watch the darkness give way to sunlight. "Jack" asks Riddick what they should tell the authorities about him when they are questioned.

According to Riddick, while in Butcher Bay he received eye surgery (a "surgical shine job", as he calls it) from a doctor who gave him permanent night vision in exchange for "20 menthol KOOLs".

How long was the eclipse supposed to last? It was never established in the movie.