Grue (monster) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A grue is a fictional predator which dwells in the dark. The word grue was first used in modern times as a fictional predator from Jack Vance's Dying Earth universe (described as being part "ocula...
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Pitch Black (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pitch Black (also known as The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black ) is a 2000 science fiction action movie directed by David Twohy and is recognized as the acting breakthrough of Vin Diesel. ...
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Pitch Black isn't a complete waste of filmstock, it's just that it never aspires to be anything more than yet another Alien retread. When the spaceship crash-lands on a barren planet, the crew encounters swarming hordes of carnivorous beasties.
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David Twohy abandons the paranoid conspiracy plotting of his previous alien-menace movie, THE ARRIVAL, in favor of a more straightforward action approach in PITCH BLACK, and the result is a fairly efficient science fiction monster film.
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Pitch Black, starring Vin Diesel, is a slow boil that gets awesome at the end. For the first hour and a half, our heroes are trapped on a mysterious planet that has like 5,000 suns, and then all the suns are eclipsed and it's permanent night. ... You can see his fury through the monster's weird ghost vision.
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A shipful of interstellar passengers finds themselves marooned on an unmapped planet in this moody and effective sci-fi monster movie from David Twohy (The Arrival). Neither the acting nor the script is much to talk about, but Pitch Black is a smart thriller in the way that Alien is;
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Two men tell poor Leticia Musgrove (Halle Berry) that she's beautiful during the course of Marc Forster's pitch-black Monster's Ball. ... MONSTER'S BALL; Original Theatrical Version -; Lions Gate Signature Series DVD; Image A+ Sound A Extras A-
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Revealing mistakes: Although the planet's surface is supposed to be completely dark - "pitch black", ... Then things go downhill again, as you realize that the survivors are all a) bad actors (apart from the docking pilot and the psychopath) and b) almost all of them fit too nicely into the role of monster-fodder. Hell,
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Are there monsters like in PITCH BLACK? ; This is not a monster movie, but rather an investigation into the mythology of Riddick's universe and past. However, huge alien hyena-dog creatures are used to control prisoners in Crematoria, and the Necromongers use these space-zombie things called Lensors as scanning devices.
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Selected Scenes and Trailer From the film "Pitch Black" ... "Pitch Black," directed by David Twohy, from a screenplay he wrote with Jim and Ken Wheat, tweaks this formulaic escape-from-hell story with just enough original touches to give it a lift. Hauser's Johns may look heroic, but he turns out to be no Luke Skywalker...
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