Not afraid of the dark are you?
In the future, man has found a way to not only cross the stars but the galaxies as well. A large spacecraft is making the journey to New Mecca, one of the most distant galaxies on the map, when it's crippled in mid-flight. Junior pilot Carolyn Fry (Radha Mitchell), the only member of the flight crew to survive the accident, manages to pilot the ship to safety down on a barren alien planet scorched by perpetual sunlight. She and the six passengers - a teenage runaway, a husband-wife biologist team, a self-interested antiques dealer, a hunky cop and a dangerous killer form an uneasy alliance to help each other in order to find a way off-planet. But their surroundings prove to be far more mysterious than they thought, the land dotted by mysterious cone-shaped hills and life-less-ordinary vines and an abandoned human settlement whose citizens seem to have vanished without a trace.
Soon Carolyn, the cop and the prisoner (whose eyes are enhanced for low-light vision) make two terrifying discoveries. The first is that this planet isn't under permanent sunlight, its unusual orbit plunges it into complete darkness once every 60 years. The second - they are not alone on this planet and the deadly sources of those eerie clicking sounds have been waiting for the long night to emerge - and feed.
A waste of time! Bloody Australian crap! The only reason I stayed to the end was to see if they all got killed: unfortunately, they didn't!
Pitch black did have a couple of good bits... particularly when a guy's head was bitten off: Cool! Plus, Vin has a damn fine body for ogling: that got the flick a couple of extra points on its own. But other than that... don't bother!
M (Medium level violence, medium level coarse language)
108 minutes (1:48 hours)
DVD rental: 8 November 2000
VHS rental: 8 November 2000
Diesel-powered hits 3-pack: 2 April 2003
