Movie - Pitch Black (2000)

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In the distant future, the spaceship Hunter-Gratzner is transporting passengers in cryostasis. Among them is Abu "Imam" al-Walid, a Muslim preacher guiding three young pilgrims to New Mecca; a teenage boy named Jack; a pair of prospectors named Shazza and Zeke; a rich merchant named Paris; and a law enforcement officer, William J. Johns, who is escorting notorious criminal Richard B. Riddick. Riddick has surgically modified eyes that are highly sensitive to light. Micrometeoroids rupture the ship's hull, killing the captain and sending the ship off course. The ship's first officer, Owens, and the docking pilot, Carolyn Fry, attempt to land the ship on a nearby planet. As the ship falls apart, Fry decides to dump the passenger section to reduce weight and level the ship, but Owens stops her. The vessel crashes into the planet's surface, most of the passengers are killed, and Owens is fatally wounded. Riddick escapes into the desert despite Johns's attempts to keep him restrained.

The survivors explore their surroundings, noticing that the planet's three suns keep it in perpetual daylight. They find an abandoned geological research settlement, with a water well and a dropship that lacks power to fly. Zeke goes missing, and Riddick is suspected; while searching for Zeke, Fry escapes from aggressive photosensitive creatures after finding Zeke's remains in their underground cave. Johns recaptures Riddick and offers him a deal: if he helps the survivors escape the planet, Johns will allow him to go free. The group takes a power cell to the dropship. One of the young pilgrims is ambushed and eaten while exploring the settlement. An orrery shows that an eclipse is imminent and the creatures will be free to hunt above ground. They realize that the geologists must have all been killed by the creatures during the last eclipse. Johns informs Fry that Riddick is a capable pilot and could abandon them, and later Riddick reveals to Fry that Johns is actually a bounty hunter and morphine addict who denied Owens the drug in his final moments.

The group returns to the crash site on a solar-powered sand truck to salvage more power cells for the dropship before the eclipse, but it begins as they get there. Before the power cells can be loaded onto the sand truck, creatures pour out of the ground and devour Shazza. The group hides inside the crash while thinking of another plan, but the creatures find a way inside, and another of Imam's child pilgrims are killed. With not many other options, and knowing about Riddick's enhanced sight, the group asks Riddick to lead them to the dropship on foot through the darkness, to which he agrees. They build a rig from the ship's lighting rods to wrap around Riddick, in addition to using improvised torches and other sources of light as protection from the creatures as Riddick drags the cells behind him; Paris accidentally destroys the power source to the lighting rods due to being overcome with fear and is devoured after wandering from the group. Riddick reveals to the remaining group that Jack is actually a female pretending to be a boy, and the scent of her menstrual blood is drawing the attention of the creatures; Johns suggests to Riddick that they use her as bait. Instead, Riddick fights and wounds Johns, leaving him to die as a distraction. The rest of the group pushes on as Riddick continues to drag the power cells behind him.

After Imam's last child pilgrim is killed and rainfall starts putting out their improvised torches, Riddick hides Fry, Imam, and Jack in a cave and goes to start the dropship himself. Inside the cave, the group discovers bioluminescent worms, which they stuff in bottles to use as light. Fry leaves the cave and finds Riddick powering the ship, ready to leave. She pleads with him to help her rescue the others, but instead he offers to take her with him. Riddick is soon persuaded to return after Fry answers his question that she would die for them, and they retrieve Imam and Jack, but Riddick is separated and wounded by the predators; Fry goes back for him but a creature stabs and carries her off. Riddick makes it to the ship and delays engaging the engines to incinerate as many creatures as possible. In space, Jack asks Riddick what they should tell the authorities about him; he tells her to say that Riddick died on the planet.

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