Pitch Black first published by Through The Trees “They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep. All but the primitive side, the animal side. No wonder I’m still awake.” So says Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel), a native of the planet Furya, at the beginning of David Twohy’s Pitch Black, even as we…
A brother and his younger sister wander through searing heat to a big old farmhouse, a long way from their urban security. It is a set-up all too familiar from Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) – except that the roadkill seen at the beginning is a kangaroo rather than an armadillo, making…