DARK BREED is another hit from the team at PM Entertainment, who seemed to put out minor gem after minor gem in the years 1996 to 1997. This one's a heavily derivative science fiction thriller in which a team of astronauts are infected by alien organisms which turn them into ruthless killers. Only B-movie favourite Jack Scalia can stop them, aided by a female alien on his side.Sure, this is a film that blatantly copies bits from ALIEN, ALIENS, and THE TERMINATOR, but that doesn't stop it being a decent piece of entertainment. It's very fast-paced, for a start, and very violent, with all manner of gruesome death scenes taking place throughout. The trademark PM vehicle chases and crashes are present and correct, and a strong cast does well with the material too. Even the early CGI effects aren't bad. Watch out for ROBOCOP's Felton Perry as one of the infected, George 'Buck' Flower as a tramp, and UNDER SIEGE 2's Jonathan Banks as the chief villain.

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

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.

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.