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Pitch black

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Movie propaganda

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.

Theatrical propaganda posters

Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film science fiction adventure action horror

Persons of interest

Vin Diesel .... Richard B Riddick
Radha Mitchell .... Carolyn Fry
Cole Hauser .... William J Johns
Keith David .... Abu Al-Walid
Lewis Fitz-Gerald .... Paris P Ogilvie
Claudia Black .... Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery
Rhiana Griffith .... Jack/Jackie
John Moore .... John "Zeke" Ezekiel
Simon Burke .... Greg Owens
Les Chantery .... Suleiman
Sam Sari .... Hassan
Firass Dirani .... Ali
Jim Wheat .... Storywriter
Ken Wheat .... Storywriter
Jim Wheat .... Screenwriter
Ken Wheat .... Screenwriter
David N Twohy .... Screenwriter
David N Twohy .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Pitch black official movie site
Awards and film festivals:

Cinematic Intelligence Agency Trenchcoat Awards 2001

See also Pitch black 2
Studios and distributors:

Sony Pictures Releasing

Intelligence analyst

Agent Keys

Theatrical report

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!