PITCH BLACK

TERRIFYING ALIEN ATTACK

Creepy sci-fi thriller from 2000 which made a star of Vin Diesel, and the story and the tension still holds up. Diesel plays

Riddick (right), a menacing mass murderer who is being transported with civilians on a cargo spaceship that crash lands on a desert planet. By day, the survivors can just about survive, but at night – when it’s pitch black – the aliens come out to feast on the humans. And then an eclipse makes things even more tense. The film led to two more Riddick movies – The Chronicles Of Riddick and Riddick – which was an overreach, but you can find them on Amazon and Netflix respectively. Until Monday