Pitch Black (2000) - Parents Guide Movie Rating

Pitch Black
MPA: R BBFC: 15 Maturity Rating 16+
MPAA Reason
Rated R for sci-fi violence and gore, and for language.
BBFC Reason
Contains strong language and horror

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Sex & Nudity

none

Violence & Gore

moderate

A man is impaled in the ground by several blades. He coughs up blood and presumably dies offscreen. A boy is eaten by bat-like creatures offscreen. The characters later find his body, reduced to a bloody skeleton. The innards of a creature are seen. Two men get into a fistfight. Several bloody punches. We see aliens attacking each other. They rip each other apart for several seconds as blue alien blood flies everywhere. A man stabs an alien with a large blade. Lots of blue blood and alien internals. Fry is stabbed behind by an alien. She is seen flying away with it.

Profanity

moderate

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

mild

Towards the beginning people are drinking hard liquor.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

severe

Several claustrophobic situations involving characters being trapped in total darkness while being hunted by alien creatures. Boy investigating abandoned warehouse. When people are trapped in the crashed ship with creatures all around, a man has a lit lighter and a flask, and he drinks and spits into the flame and many creatures are seen all around him (may be disturbing to some). A woman is eaten and dragged away by bat-like creatures. We see her body being ripped in half, about as graphic as the Grendle scene in Beowulf. A boy is attacked by an alien and dragged up a cliff.