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Pitch Black, retitled The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black, is a 2000 independent film from director David Twohy. The film spawned the sequel The Chronicles of Riddick. The film is loosely based on the Isaac Asimov short story Nightfall and was filmed in Australia.
Plot
Ten survivors of a crashed space faring vessel attempt to survive on a seemingly lifeless world heated by the light of three suns. They soon find themselves hunted by flesh eating alien creatures that appear in twenty-two year cycles when the planet goes dark. They must depend on the criminal, Riddick, the only one able to see in the dark, for their survival.
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