Cory McAbee

The names of the characters and planets (Crematoria, Vaaco) are charmingly cheesy, but what impresses are the ideas that fuel the special effects: a "carbonite" chamber where a quintet of empaths dissect Riddick's memory; a planet that has a daytime temperature of over seven-hundred degrees; an image of an ephemeral creature chained by an organic-ugly chain; and, best yet, a mutation of flesh that functions as a mad permutation of a bloodhound, Cory McAbee's Bodysuit character from The American Astronaut , and a fishbowl.