Pitch Black [Blu-ray]

Director: David Twohy, David N. Drake David Twohy

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/18/2020
UPC:	0760137381389
Original Release:	2000
Source:	Arrow Video
Language:	English
Time:	1:49:00
Sales rank:	22,403

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Vin Diesel	Riddick
Radha Mitchell	Fry
Cole Hauser	Johns
Keith David	Imam
Claudia Black	Shazza
Lewis Fitz-Gerald	Paris
Rhiana Griffith	Jack
John Moore	Zeke Ezekiel,le membre d'équipage
Les Chantery	Suleiman
Sam Sari	Hassan
Firass Dirani	Ali
Vic Wilson	Capt. Tom Mitchell
Ric Anderson	Total Stranger
Angela Makin	Dead Crew Member
Peter Chiang	le voyageur en vaisseau
Radha Mithcell	Actor
Ken Twohy	le voyageur en vaisseau
Lewis Fitzgerald	Actor
Simon Burke	Actor
Graeme Revell	Composer

Technical Credits

David Twohy

Jim Wheat

David Twohy	Director,Screenwriter
Chris Anderson	Stunts,Special Effects,Special Effects,Stunts
Peter Chiang	Special Effects
Brian Cox	Special Effects,Special Effects
Tom Engelman	Producer
Ted Field	Executive Producer,Producer
Matthew Gratzner	Special Effects
Ian Hunter	Special Effects
Scott Kroopf	Executive Producer,Producer
Ann Robinson	Casting
Anthony Winley	Executive Producer,Producer,Executive Producer
Jim Wheat	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Beau Borders	Sound Effects
Michael Axinn	Sound Effects
Jennifer Barin	Sound Effects
Chris Barron	Sound Effects
Paul Brincat	Sound Effects
David N. Drake	Director
Graham Litchfield	Key Grip
Marney Commens	Stunts
Nigel Harbach	Stunts
Peter Jerimijenko	Stunts
Nigel King	Stunts
Antony Hunt	Executive Producer
Scott Pourroy	Executive Producer
David Litchfield	Key Grip
Pat VanAuken	Key Grip
Debbie Santic	Stunts
Wilfred Woodrow	Stunts
Shannon Blake Gans	Executive Producer
Roger Lofting	Executive Producer
Mullinars Consultants	Casting
Michelle Comerford	Stunts
Yasca Sinigaglia	Stunts
Tom Myers	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Screenwriter and director David Twohy continues his intriguing career of crafting challenging, well-mounted science fiction films via limited means with this somewhat derivative but highly enjoyable action thriller. Most of the casting in Pitch Black is by type and thus instantly forgettable, though given the story's haunted-house horror movie structure, this is probably by design. However, the film is anchored by Radha Mitchell and the strutting, grunting Vin Diesel, relative newcomers who prove their mettle on the big screen with reflective performances marked by detailed, intuitive choices. As he did with Warlock (1988), Disaster in Time (1992), and The Arrival (1996), Twohy takes what was intended to be a straight-to-video genre potboiler and transforms the project into something at least a cut above other examples of its type. Unfortunately, in all of these projects, the writer/director is at times overcome by shoestring budgets that hamstring his creative efforts to impress visually.