Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller Countries: Australia | USA Actors: Vin Diesel Richard B. Riddick Radha Mitchell Carolyn Fry Cole Hauser William J. Johns Keith David Abu 'Imam' 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 Ric Anderson Total Stranger Vic Wilson Captain Tom Mitchell Angela Makin Dead Crew Member Directors: David Twohy IMDB Rating: 6.8 out of 10 (36203 votes)

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Taglines: 

1: There's only one rule: Stay in the light

2: A new species of terror

3: Are you afraid of the dark? You will be...

4: Don't be afraid of the dark. Be afraid of what's in the dark.

5: Fight Evil With Evil

6: It's getting Dark

7: There's A New Reason To Be Afraid Of The Dark.

Plot Summary: 

The space transport vessel “Hunter-Gratzner” carrying 40 people on-board crashes on a desert planet when the ship is struck in a meteor storm. There are only 10 survivors, among them are pilot Carolyn Fry (Who has assumed command after the ship’s captain is killed), bounty hunter William J. Johns, religious man Abu “Imam” al-Walid, Antiques dealer Paris P. Ogilvie, runaway teenage girl Jack, settlers John ‘Zeke’ Ezekiel and his lover Sharon ‘Shazza’ Montgomery and Richard B. Riddick, a dangerous escaped convict. Marooned, the 10 survivors finds the barren and hot desert-scape has sunlight from three suns. Not only they find food and water, and worry about Riddick, the survivors finds themselves being hunted by the planet’s flesh eating alien inhabits, when the planet is engulfed in darkness, which happens every 22 years, as they come out on to the surface to hunt and eat all signs of life. Fry and the survivors finds Riddick is their best chance of survival, as Riddick has surgically-enhanced silver eyes that allow him to see in the dark as they set out to find a way of escaping from the planet and getting to a escape shuttle, before they all get eaten by the creatures on the surface. Written by Daniel Williamson

Lightyears in space, the space transport shuttle ‘Hunter-Gratzner’ is met with a deadly meteor shower and crash lands on a baron wasteland with absolutely no life in sight. After their captain dies from a ‘fatal impact’ upon crash landing, second-in-command Carolyn Fry assumes responsibility of the ten survivors who managed to escape the wreck with their lives, but the death of her captain has her mind deeply troubled and she lacks the will to help the people in need of her assistance. Among these survivors is Richard B. Riddick, a dangerous criminal who was being transported to another prison colony by bounty hunter William Johns but managed to escape after the wreck. After Riddick is recaptured, following the mutilation of colonist Zeke, everyone assumes that he’s responsible and after doing a little more investigating, the survivors realize that the colonists who lived on the planet didn’t leave or vanish at all: they were eaten by a pack of carnivorous (sometimes cannibalistic) raptors, nocturnal creatures who can’t stand the light and so must stay below the surface to avoid getting scorched. Johns assumes that if the raptors are phobic about the daylight, then all they have to do is stick to three suns shining their light on the planet and they’ll be fine until an ‘evac’ arrives. That’s easier said than done when Fry examines a solar system model and discovers that the planet they’re on falls into a total eclipse every twenty two years and when the lights go out, the raptors will come to surface to feast on whoever is on their homeworld. With tensions mounting, trust dwindling and people dying left and right, Fry and the others launch a plan to find an escape shuttle to try and escape the planet in one piece: but to do so, they’ll need Riddick’s surgically enhanced eyes to see and guide them through the darkness. But the question is, can Riddick be trusted? And can they hold together long enough to avoid becoming the raptors’ next meal? Written by Keno Reeves (spywatcher459)

A transport ship containing 40 passengers heading to other worlds for, among other reasons, settling, New Mecca, and for one passenger, Riddick, another cell. The ship encounters a tiny meteor storm and crash lands on a barren planet with only 1/4 of its complement surviving. Survival is tough with Riddick on the loose and no water in sight. However, come nightfall, they have even more to fear… Written by Jeff Mellinger {jmell@uclink4.berkeley.edu}

A transport space-shuttle lands on a planet where the light is seemingly always shining. Under the planet is a hoard of vicious creatures who are hurt by the light and need dark. The passengers on the ship think they are safe…until they find out there’s going to be an eclipse. Written by Skip4591

Set in the distant future, a spaceship carrying some 40 people, mostly ones wanting to settle on other planets from their own, hits a meteor shower and crash lands on a distant planet killing all but about a dozen of them. The survivors, led by the second-in-command Carolyn Fry (’Rahda Mitchell’ ), find themselves on a hot and humid landscape with constant sunlight from three orbiting suns. Fry not only must help the survivors find food and water, but contend with a deadly criminal, named Riddick (Vin Diesel), who was being transported to a prison cell on their destination. But every 22 years, the planet’s three suns go into a total eclipse for a month where darkness brings out the planet’s real inhabitants; large, reptilian, vampire-like creatures that come out and dominate the surface in total darkness, killing and eating all life. The Fry and her people then must cooperate with Riddick, who has surgically enhanced eyes to see in darkness, to lead them to safety and off the planet before they all become dinner for the creatures. Written by Matthew Patay

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