Captain Kronos (Horst Janson; Murphy’s War) , a vampire hunter and expert swordsman who, with the assistance fo the beautiful gypsy Carla (Caroline Munro; The Spy Who Love Me) and his hunchbacked assistant, Professor Grost (John Cater; Rising Damp), roam the country in search of vampires. On their travels, the trio happens upon a village where they find that a vampire has been draining the youth from beautiful, young girls. Devising a daring plan, Captain Kronos and his aids attempt to save the village before the death toll equlas the population.Forget Van Helsing. Captain Kronos is the great swashbuckling vampire hunter. Hard-faced Horst Janson is the brooding Kronos, a rangy, sword-wielding soldier who hunts the vampire scourge with his jovial hunchbacked partner, Grost (John Cater), and his earthy peasant girl lover, hazelnut eyed beauty Caroline Munro. Director-writer Brian Clemens, who so entertainingly put genres in the blender on the TV series The Avengers, imaginatively rewrites vampire lore from the film’s haunting first scene: a shrouded, shadowy predator (looking more like death incarnate than a traditional vampire) drains a comely maiden of her very youth, leaving the girl an aged, wizened husk. Clemens lacks the budget and the cinematic snap to bring his visual ideas to full fruition, but his well-wrought characters, inspired ideas, and swashbuckling swordfights make this entertaining reinterpretation of the vampire movie a cult classic. –Sean Axmaker
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March 27, 2010
#1
I unfortunately bought a dud. A diehard vampire fan will watch just about anything in that genre and while I realised this was from a particular genre (not necessarily being vampire), I was very very disappointed with the whole thing. Not much point picking it to peices cause it is just my opinion but a stronger, more realistic (to the role) and appealing (not necessarily typically attractive) and just interesting leading man would have helped immensely. I was not thrilled, chilled, suspense filled or eventually even interested in continuing watching it cause it was just boring and a bit ridiculous. I didn’t like it.
March 28, 2010
#2
DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS STUPID MOVIE. IT IS AS CORNY AS CORNY GETS.
March 28, 2010
#3
Alright, normally I love a good B-movie but this dosen’t even rate that high. Captain Kronos is a lame attempt at a vampire tale. It ignores most of the traditional rules which you will either love or hate and is pitifully acted. The first 1/3 of the movie is all set up and exposition with no pay off at the end. Most of the movie consists of Kronos flashing a colgate smile and giving lines to his new found girlfriend that even Austin Powers would find chessy.The rest of it are scenes of young girls who suddenly have a black robbed figure appear out of no where while on a frollick some where or another and have their youth drained away. The climax if you can call it that is as about as scary as robin hood men in tights without the humor.
If you read these other reviews and are tempted remmeber this 99% who write them are die hard fans who will love it no matter what because it’s a hammer film. The other one % just got screwed.
March 28, 2010
#4
TO: Hammer Film Fans
The Good;
It has a cool poster, and some good scenes.
The Bad:
Kronos is well, less than brillant. It is one of hammer’s attept’s to change vampire films. Among the others are Vampire Circus, a really weird Hammer vam[pire film from 1972, Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, the kung-fu vampire movie, Satanic Rites of Dracula, the satanic cult vampire film, the Vampire Lovers, the super-violent hammer film, Countess Dracula, the historical vampire fim, and Dracula A.D. 1972, the groovy/mod, mod vampire film. Another reveiw said that it got an R, because it was in a double feature with Frankenstein And the Monster from Hell, but that film isn’t actually that bad. Ii would give it four stars!
From: The hammer Film Reveiwer
March 28, 2010
#5
I first ran across this film in the mid-80′s when I was rediscovering Hammer films. It is probably the most unique of the gothic horror films that Hammer is known for, being both a swashbuckler and a vampire flick. The film was great, nice crisp colors, and great sound. This should make it a 5-star review, right? NO!
The top banner of the keepcase says “Widescreen Collection”. I was prepared to watch one of my favorite Hammer films in letterbox glory. It only plays as a fullscreen (1.33:1 aspect ratio). I will be returning mine to Wal-mart for a refund.