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    " Fight Evil With Evil"
    Country
    Spoken Language
    Runtime 1 hr 48 min
    Budget $23 000 000
    Premiere: World $53 187 659 February 18, 2000
    USA $39 240 659
    Other countries $13 947 000
    Box Office – Budget $30 187 659
    Premiere: USA $39 240 659 February 18, 2000
    first day $3 162 000
    theaters 1930
    rollout 318 days
    Digital: World March 24, 2008
    Parental Advisory
    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      plenty

    • Profanity

      average

    • Violence & Gore

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

    Production Companies Polygram Filmed EntertainmentInterscope Communications
    Also Known As
    Criaturas de la noche United States

    Description

    A transport ship crashes and leaves its crew stranded on a desert planet inhabited by bloodthirsty creatures that come out during an eclipse.

    Сast and Crew

    Production

    According to Ken and Jim Wheat, the idea of Pitch Black was suggested by David Madden during his tenure in Interscope Communications, where “[t]ravelers visit a planet where multiple suns mean perpetual daylight, but when an eclipse brings darkness, ghosts emerge.” The ghost part only survived the first draft.

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    Critique: 11

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    calendarlive.com January 1, 2000

    A routine sci-fi/horror action-adventure, takes us where we’ve been countless times before.

    film.avclub.com October 17, 2018

    Pitch Black falters a bit in its last half-hour-the film’s darkest moment reduces Diesel to delivering a pithy one-liner-but for the mos...

    TimeOut June 24, 2006

    A smart, suspenseful sci-fi movie from director Twohy, whose underrated 1996 film, The Arrival, also brought visual imagination and intel...

    ReelViews January 1, 2000

    It’s not an especially challenging part, but Diesel handles it with aplomb.

    BBC April 17, 2001

    It is an entertainment and quite a good one too.

    Austin Chronicle January 1, 2000

    A very streamlined exercise in interplanetary mayhem and the logistics of the body count.

    SFGATE January 1, 2000

    A tiresome experience.

    The Guardian October 17, 2018

    David Twohy’s film undoubtedly has something interesting about it, and that something can be summarised in two words: Vin Diesel.

    RogerEbert.com January 1, 2000

    How sad it is that humans travel countless light years away from Earth, only to find themselves inhabiting the same tired generic conventions.

    Salon.com January 1, 2000

    Pitch Black is the movie of the season for sci-fi and horror fans!

    Austin Chronicle January 1, 2000

    A very streamlined exercise in interplanetary mayhem and the logistics of the body count.

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    Quotes

    They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep. All but the primitive side… the animal side.

    There’s gonna be one speed: mine. If you can’t keep up, don’t step up. You’ll just die.

    You don’t know who you’re fucking with!

    Did not know who he was fucking with.

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    Watched

    This is the film of my youth. One might say that nostalgia creeps into all the cracks. And Diesel didn’t play badly. Overall, it turned out to be a well-knit fantasy.

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    How simple, I would even say primitive, is such an atmospheric, well-made film

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    Watched

    Vin Diesel. The film was a success and is stored in my memory not on the last shelf. I will never tire of re-watching it, and this is my favorite part of all the stories about Riddick.

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    A great film that hasn’t gotten old in 20 years! years, which is clearly seen in the last, completely disastrous part. Luxurious shooting, a simple but interesting plot, monsters, space and everything as it should be! I’m looking forward to rewatching it!

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    Time has shown how cool this film really is. I like it more and more with each rewatch.

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    Watched

    Between 9 and 10 is a film for me. Nothing superfluous in a film for 20 rubles. Both the plot and the ending and the effects. Diesel’s best role.

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