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Wonderful Movie

Great Film overall

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Worth seeing as an an interesting twist on the vampire legends. Here the vampires drain the victim of their youth, not just their blood, leaving them aged looking and dead. The vampire in return stays young. The lead characters are well acted and intriguing. I especially like the scene where Captain Kronos teaches some bullies in a bar a deadly lesson about manners and swordsmanship. My only complaints are it's slow moving at times and the characters have a 1960s/70s hairstyle and makeup look to them. They don't all look like they belong in the period that is supposed to be the film's time. One character even looks like a Twiggy look-a-like. Also, the good captain sure waited till the last second before rescuing the women he used for vampire bait. Still the film is over all fun to watch. and worth your time.

Captain Kronos was, by all accounts, meant to be a recurring character in 5 movies, with possibly a t.v. series to follow. He was to pop up in different historical eras (including, probably, the present day) to fight supernatural evil, and it would not be explained how he did it - though presumably he is some sort of time traveller.It's a shame then, that Vampire Hunter proved to be the 1st and last entry in the series, killed by lack of audience interest in the Hammer product. Kronos is an engaging character, like-ably played by Horst Janson, and his sole screen adventure proves an engaging one. Writer/Director Brian Clemens gives us a Western-style vampire whodunit, adding numerous touches of originality to the proceedings. The vampire attacks don't drain blood - they drain the life-force itself, leaving the victim horribly aged and the correct method for dispatching the vampire can only be found by experimentation.Kronos is called in to investigate a series of these attacks, and with his lively assistant Hieronymus Grost is soon burying dead toads all over the place in the quest to root out the vampire! There's a great scene with Ian Hendry as a tavern thug out to kill Kronos, and a splendid sword duel at the end between Kronos and his chief foes.There's also a nice twist to in this engaging vampire variant at the climax, when the real vampire is finally revealed. Brian Clemens directs ably, and there's also a rousing Bernard Herman-style music score. Perhaps the new Hammer could consider reviving the good Captain? And since his mum is in this they could do worse than getting Benedict Cumberbatch involved!

Prepare to be hammered by Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter. He's a swashbuckling, brooding, silent type who cavorts across the countryside with his assistant, Prof. Grost, who is a hunchbacked sort of Dr.-Watson-Meets-Hephaestus. As you will learn well into the storyline, Kronos's family was attacked by vampires, so now he has to repay the "species" a thousandfold by hunting them down in the, well, dead of day, actually, and learning along the way that vampires are a varied species that must be snuffed in a multitude of ways as no one set of rules works for all of them(a nice twist).The score is adequate, and in some places, rousing. Acting is somewhat of "Horst of another color." Janson is tolerable as Cap'n Kronos, sometimes delivering his lines very well, other times you might groan. If I were to cast a remake, I'd lovingly place Dave Mustaine in the lead with John Hurt as his quasimodo-in-tow. Anyway, I know plenty of horror fans dig this film and there is a lot to be said for it 35 years later. Part of its appeal would lie in when you watched the movie, though. If you are a geezer like me and waited until you were older to see this, it certainly won't have the same attraction as it might for a kid in high school in the 70's. This is not to say it's a bad film or even really dated. You just have to be in the right mindset when you start watching or you'll end up being too critical. Personally, I'd have preferred more swordplay and a few more vampiric slayings. The swordfight in the cemetery is beyond pathetic and at least the cinematographer was able to clean up the shortcomings a bit with fast camera-work. However, the sword fight at the end is considerably better and will make up for the one previously derided.There are a bevy of beauties in the film, including the delicious Caroline Munro, so there's no shortage of flesh, although nudity is kept in the shadows. If you are a careful viewer, and I know you are, you'll spot the main baddie rather early on, but that doesn't necessarily spoil things. Perhaps the best thing about this movie is not so much the action or dialogue as the uber-creepy vampire moving about the countryside, mainly in the forests, donning a black shroud and sucking the youth out of the fair maidens. The fact the vampire's face is not shown until the end greatly helps the film, which has little in the way of effects or gore.Today, we have Van Helsing and the late-in-coming Solomon Kane as a sort of modern cinematic Captain Kronos, but that doesn't mean his character couldn't live on in more stories. I'm sure there are enough fans of this film to warrant his resurrection.

"Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter" of 1974 is certainly not one of the most brilliant films from the immortal Hammer Studios, but it is definitely a stylish and highly memorable immensely entertaining vampire flick, a typical product of the 70s, and a little gem of super-cool macho cinema. This very humorous horror flick that doesn't take itself very seriously may lack the extreme creepiness and haunting Gothic atmosphere of Hammer's masterpieces, but it features a lot of originality, great action, a great sense of humor and one of the coolest vampire hunters in motion picture history - Captain Kronos - in exchange.The eponymous hero is played by the German actor Horst Janson. Janson may not be a great acting talent, but he greatly fits in his role of the ass-kicking vampire-killing-machine Captain Kronos, and his thick accent makes the character even cooler. Kronos is the epitome of coolness, a master swordsman and former soldier with a fat 'K' signet ring on his finger and a samurai sword as a weapon of choice who always has a cigar in the corner of his mouth. He is assisted in his profession by the hunchbacked Professor Hieronymus Grost (John Cater), who does all the work for him, since Kronos has to save his strength for the vampire killing. The two are furthermore accompanied by the stunningly hot Carla (beautiful Caroline Munro, who was in quite a bunch of memorable horror films) whom Kronos has freed from the pillories... I don't want to give too much of the story away, but I can assure that the movie is worth the time. It may lack the suspense of other Hammer flicks, but it is an extremely stylish piece of cult-cinema that entertains like hardly another film. Every fan of stylish cinema should give this a try, for my fellow Hammer-fans "Kronos" is a must-see! Highly recommended!