This could have been a great sci-fi thriller, but couldn't quite deliver.

Rating: 5/10 (20 February 2000)

The premise (based very loosely on an Asimov short story, Nightfall) is simple: a small band of people, survivors of a space wreck, crash-land on a planet that knows darkness only every few decades -- during which time all the beasties comes out to feast. The acting, plot, premise, and effects are all good -- but could have been better.