Pitch Black (1999)

lean, mean genre pic

"the primitive side, the animal side"

desert planet with three suns

Arab holy man on way to New Mecca,

free settlers

Richard B. Riddick

solid ensemble acting

panicky "antiquities dealer/entrepeneur" Paris P. Ogilvie

an impending eclipse

Mitchell: "You don't know what's out there."

Ogilvie: "I know what's in here."

light-sensitive, ravenous nocturnal creatures with razor-sharp talons

thanks to prison surgery, he has night vision

will it be every man for himself?

Imam (Keith David)

kid named  Jack ()

mercenary Johns (Cole Hauser)

antihero