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Pitch black (2000)

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 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 the geologists must have been all killed by the creatures
during the last eclipse. Johns informs Fry that Riddick is a capable pilot and could abandon
them, and Riddick reveals 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. Creatures pour out
of the ground and devour Shazza and another pilgrim. With his enhanced sight, Riddick
agrees to lead the group to the dropship on foot through the darkness. They build a rig from
the ship's lighting rods as protection; Paris accidentally destroys the rig and is devoured.
Riddick reveals to the group that Jack is actually 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 and leaves him to die as a
distraction. The rest of the group pushes on as Riddick drags the power cells behind him.

After Imam's last acolyte is killed and rainfall starts putting out their improvised torches,
Riddick hides the others 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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