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Actually, things explode a lot! Much of the film's budget must have gone on explosives, cars explode, buildings explode, everything explodes at some point....

The special effects are pretty well staged for a low-budget,straight to DVD/video but the plot gets a bit lost in all the smoke. And I couldn't help feeling there was a really good story trying hard to get out along the way. I would have preferred the film to concentrate on the characters a bit more rather than just sketching them as one dimensional stereotypes. The film was at it's most interesting when it went into 'conspiracy theory' territory.

Sadly, most action films are judged on their special effects these days and if you want a film with lots of action, albeit it all a bit pointless at times, this will suit you fine.

If there is ever Dark Breed 2, be nice to have more story and less explosions.

Sh!t from outer space keeps crashing onto earth at the start of this movie. First a spaceship with evil alien parasite-infected astronauts. Then a cocoon-canister with alien eggs. Then another lifepod thing with a female astronaut inhabited by a good alien. The female is the ex-wife of Jack Scalia, and he is the star and co-producer of this thrill-ride sci-fi/horror action-fest (okay, I'm exaggerating things a little bit here). Scalia & his alienized ex-wife have to team up to stop the evil astronauts, as they are here to take over the world (with the bunch of eggs helping them to inevitably create an alien army). There's one cool car-chase sequence early on in the movie (actually, it's a truck-chase sequence and why those aliens decided to steal a truck is beyond me). The rest of the film contains a lot of shooting and military folks running around. The special effects are passable, some highlights: the space shuttle crashing in the harbor, a pretty gory autopsy sequence and two nifty rubber suited aliens near the end. At one point or another, "Dark Breed" might remind you of films like "The Hidden" (good alien teaming up with a human to kill the bad aliens) and perhaps even "Predator" (the facial design of one of the evil aliens). Needles to say those are far better movies than "Dark Breed". But it gains an extra point for blowing up a lot of things.

Remember Mad Libs? I just know that they have one where you insert the names and they crank out canned dialog that is appropriate to movies like this. Sorry, Richard, but you need to stay on strike as this script is atrocious! The only good thing about this movie is the special effects and the fireworks. There was lots of loud explosions and numerous bullets expended in the making of this film. There were some really neat effects as the parasites took control of the astronauts. The creatures were nifty. That's it, folks.

If your toenails are clipped and you've nothing else to do, it will pass for some excitement. Just don't listen to the crappy clichés throughout. They'll make you groan.

There sure are a lot of panes of glass destroyed in this PM production, involving a bunch of astronauts coming back from space infested with evil aliens hell bent on taking over the Earth. The leader of the aliens is Mike from Breaking Bad, but, you see, he's also still a good guy underneath.

Their former Captain is out to track them down, along with his ex-wife (who also has an alien in her), some evil G-men, etc etc. It's a PM film, and therefore chock-full of car chases, explosions, and a rather large amount of people being thrown through panes of glass.

I was expecting this to be your usual run of the mill 'people running around a warehouse being chased by aliens' film, that only really happens at the end (and via a flashback also). When the aliens do appear, they are rather, eh, Predator like, but I wasn't complaining as they laid waste to all the G-men.

Throw in some mild gore, loads of gunfights, some not bad car chases, and plenty on nineties cheese and you have all you need to pass the time while you're waiting to die.

One thing: In some scenes the alien contact lenses seem to have been inserted incorrectly.

While I had never seen, nor actually ever heard about, this 1996 sci-fi thriller movie titled "Dark Breed", I have to say that the movie's synopsis sounded interesting enough to make me sit down and watch it, as I had the opportunity to do so here in 2025.

But while the synopsis made the movie sound interesting, writer Richard Preston Jr. Failed to live up to that promise. The storyline in the movie was bland and rather dull, devoid of anything overly interesting. And it was quite a drag to sit through 104 minutes of this ordeal.

There are some familiar faces on the cast list, especially if you watched movies during the 1980s and 1990s, with the likes of Jack Scalia, Cindy Ambuehl, Jonathan Banks, Carlos Carrasco and George 'Buck' Flower. And while the script was subpar, I will say that the acting performances were fair enough.

Visually, the movie was okay. It wasn't impressive special effects, but they were fair enough.

"Dark Breed" was a swing and a miss of a movie, and it is not one that I will be returning to a second time.

My rating of director Richard Pepin's 1996 movie "Dark Breed" lands on a four out of ten stars.

Starts out with a space shuttle crashing into the water, the military stands by and getting ready to rescue the people inside w/ a fear of contamination. The guys that crashed jump out of the water (infected by the aliens) and starts killing, jumps into vehicles and the military chases after them - car crashes and things explode during the high speed chase! Next the military are after them for the rest of the film and there are scientist/doctors that want to check out the men infected.

The infected men will go back to being themselves and then the aliens will take them back over again - so there is some back and forth with that going on.

We have no idea why the aliens are wanting to take over earth... but they have eggs to hatch to "raise" an army of their own to do so. Maybe the earthlings made them mad to begin with by trying to take there eggs.

Lots of cheesy 80s action going on in this 1996 film... if you like that and aliens then you might like this movie!! 3/10

This is an Alien copycat that doesn't have scary monsters and the plot is mixed up. The astronauts inhabited by aliens for some reason are only inhabited part of the time. Why? I don't know and it doesn't matter. You know they are inhabited because they all of a sudden speak in a stupid computerized "scary" voice that isn't scary. The astronauts go places, but it doesn't matter. Then, they rip off the Terminator by having another alien that can kill them. By this time you are extremely bored and don't care. There are, however, lots of explosions. And there is the obligatory "man running away from large explosion just ahead of the leaping flames" scene. Yawn.

Some people take films far too seriously!

Like most reviewers or critics for this, Dark Breed.

I picked this up for just a pound and highly enjoyed what I got for it. Action packed from the get-go, Dark Breed is a sci-fi rip off from many Hollywood blockbusters, but it doesn't care, because it's got just as much action, if not more, complete with some incredible stunt work from everyone involved!

Jack Scalia is just great. He isn't a bad actor, he just seems to have gotten trapped in B-movie hell, yet never fails to deliver.

His role in Dark Breed is probably one of his best, and he pulls off the action hero greatly!

Far from perfect, but highly entertaining if you remember not to take it all so seriously. Action fans should definitely check it out, as I feel its being sold more as a sci-fi movie than anything else, yet features some amazing stunt work that deserves to be seen!!

1996 was a busy year for the protagonist of this film as its leading star, 1980's TV heartthrob actor Jack Scalia, a Brooklyn native of Italian descent, featured in not one but two somewhat obscure sci-fi films; 'Dark Breed' and 'The Silencers'. Both of these films suffer from the same problem, that is of having an interesting concept for the story and narrative but which are adapted amateurishly on film.

The plot's tagline for this film is: 'Six astronauts are infected by an alien organism.' Doesn't that sound cool? Well, yeah, but what we have in 'Dark Breed' is anything but. Despite featuring a number of handsome and pretty actors and actresses in its cast, this film never manages to bring out the potential of anyone of them. The editing is poor, and while there are some effects, they do not look at all convincing. The thing is, despite all of this, I do not think that 'Dark Breed' is horrible in any way either. It is certainly mediocre, sure, but I reserve the title of terrible or horrible for films which insult my intelligence or which make me want to stop watching. At least I watched this film until the end and nothing about it was insulting.

'The Silencers', Jack Scalia's other sci-fi film of 1996, is better than this one because for all its mistakes, at least it was not as tedious as this film. With better editing, 'Dark Breed' could have been a memorable sci-fi film, but as it is, it is nothing better than a mediocre and forgettable sci-fi film which, while not terrible in any way, is nothing if not mediocre.

As I'm an eager Sci-Fi fan I used to buy every single DVD in this special genre, even if the picture had a bad reputation like Dark Breed a kind of unabashed Terminator alien mimicry, to worsen this weirdo offer has an unbelievable plot, countless blasting, gooey and primitive especial effects.

Aquarius 7 is a Nasa's Project something similar Columbia in outer space, it sudden coming back with the almost whole crew infected by invaders aliens self-called accursed race, except by a superior alien protector embodies in Aquarius's female member Burgess (Cindy Ambuehl) former wife of the Captain Nicholas Saxon (Jack Scalia) who is in charge of rescue the Aquarius 7's crew that landing in a harbor area.

His old friend Joseph Shay (Jonathan Banks) the commander and other five members are tainted by alien organism inside their bodies in process of development, the Nasa commander Cutter (Lance LeGault) demands catch the parasite-hosts in order to study them, the alien invaders put the eggs on the Aquarius 7's capsule that will incubates the eggs in 39 hours, spreading news alien to take over the whole planet, they must find out it and destroy and the time is running out.

It's a shameless hybrid facsimile of Terminator-Alien and others related Sci-Fi pictures, also overdone blasting, myriad machine gun fire, street chases in iron parabolic antenna that in contact with asphalt did not lets out a single spark, slime alien as usually done by others movies, whoever wrote the script certainly was drunk or had smoke mari-juana, anyway a farfetched entry.

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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 4.5.

I've loved Jack Scalia's Trilogy of exciting PM Entertainment Sci-fi B-movies that include: T-Force, The Silencers & Dark Breed.

Jack Scalia is near perfect leading man for the fun & fantasy worlds of B-movies, with his good looks, rugged voice & no-nonsense attitude he suits the material he does. Scalia produced these movies too which tells me he likes what he's doing & so do i.

T-Force was Awesome & an easy 8/10 & The Silencers was also Awesome & an easy 8/10 & equally Awesome was Dark Breed, another 8/10 for B-movie goodness. These movies are perfect video era releases that are full of fun, action, excitement & lots of cool stuff.

Here the slickly cool Jack Scalia plays Nick Saxon, a special government agent that gets called into action when a space shuttle returns to Earth carrying a team of infected astronauts, including Bad guy regular Jonathan Banks as Joseph Shay a friend of Nicks & also on board was Nick's ex-wife. The space shuttle is called Aquarius 7 & was on a top secret mission but ended up becoming a vessel for Extraterrestrials that have taken over their human hosts & are now in Los Angeles. There's a nice sense of the X-Files here with a dash of 90's Sci-fi Thriller elements scattered throughout like Species & Predator & Predator 2 & many more that come to mind whilst watching it. Jack Scalia is cool once again as the tough agent trying to track down & stop his old buddy & his team of infected creatures.

There's a fantastic action-packed sequence set on a freeway at night that is just explosive action & excitement & i loved how Dark Breed is set mostly at night that gives the film a nice dark atmosphere that's full of that pure 90's cinematography that's blueish light & dark shadows & is very suited & effective here.

The special effects are damn good for a 90's Low-budget DTV movie & the creature design is pretty awesome & reminded me a little of The Predator, but still different enough to stand out as a cool movie monster in it's own right.

I liked the dark, wet & grubby urban setting of the docks & an old warehouses where nearly all the action takes place because the infected Astronauts are hiding out down there & i loved the pure old fashioned B-movie feel of the film complete with a nice 1950's love song used alot that gives the film a B-movie homage feel (like the cult classic Night of the Creeps) & even when the shuttle comes crashing down to earth it passes overhead a young couple kissing in a roofless car parked on the docks near the river & it was a perfect 50's B-movie setup & homage. Dark Breed is full of Conspiracy & monstrous killers & explosive action set pieces that keep it moving along nicely.

I loved Dark Breed & Jack Scalia & his other two films!!!

If you love B-movies & the fun type of flicks that you would find on the video store shelves of the VHS era then you will like Dark Breed.

Another decent job by director Richard Pepin again!!!