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!!!
