Wow! Such a good movie.

Please don't spend money on this.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Captain Kronos is a bit on the corny side but it is fun to watch. Captain Kronos is a swashbuckling vampire hunter that is reminiscent of a comic book superhero. He was featured in a grand total of 4 Hammer Magazine Comics: The House of Hammer » 3 issues (#1, #2, #3) and Hammer's Halls of Horror » 1 issue (#20).The movie is decent - funny sometimes. It's not a bad afternoon film. It's quite fun to watch, has a pretty good story, good costuming and sets, and a dashing, daring vampire hunter named Captain Kronos!Basically if you like vampire stories, a comic book feel to a film, swashbuckling, and a film that does not take itself to seriously then you might enjoy Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter. It's entertaining!7/10

Captain Kronos is a little different for Hammer, but a worthy addition to their canon of films. Fitting into Hammer easily with the same feel and Gothic style, but different in its approach with some original and new ideas for its time. Just like the title indicates our hero is Captain Kronos and his occupation is to hunt vampires. He is an expert swordsman formerly of the King's Imperial Guard, self employed with his hunchback assistant Grost. They investigate a village that has their young women drained of their youth by a vampire. Speaking of women, our hero Kronos has a great one, picking up gypsy girl(Caroline Monroe) who is gorgeous, talented and worked on many classic horror flicks, most notably the ultra brutal 1980 classic Maniac. The rules for killing vampires are different and varied in this film and according to expert Grost there are many different kinds of vampires as well. Our hero Kronos , played by Horst Janson is kind of a half vampire who survived getting bit by one and continues to hunt them. Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter is way ahead of its time as a hybrid of horror and action, throwing in elements from western and samurai films. The action is not nearly as abundant as in a film like Blade, but I'm pretty sure Kronos influenced it. Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter is one of my favorites of the later Hammer films, as well as being one of the most well made also. If you are a fan of both action and horror, Kronos comes highly recommended.

Saw this during a night of insomnia and liked it a lot. I know nothing of Hammer Films history or the horror genre generally. But I liked so many of the details and I'm sure I missed as many as I saw. Crooked candelabras, odd camera angles, spooky lighting and bombastic proclamations by overconfident undead built atmosphere and period. Though what period, I'm not too sure. Hints and suggestion substituted for budget: example; the special chapel cross. The borrowed/re-purposed/homage/stolen (pick one) scenes from other styles: Greek mythology: Medusa can't deal with a mirror. Western: The bar scene where the wronged lass is avenged by the heroic fighter. Kung Du: The simple ten against one fight in the cemetery where the minions respectfully wait their turns to be clocked by the leading man. The payoff sword fight wasn't much of a surprise and the vampire had a bad-guy sword; one that can only inflict minor cuts on the hero, nothing mortal despite several opportunities. The hyper-speed that I'd been using as an explanation for the Captains successes was not in evidence or maybe I missed it. The local villages must have been pretty special places. Their population seems to not have included any ugly maidens. However after this movie, there may not be any maidens left at all. They sure got rid of a lot of them. All in all, definitely entertaining and worth a watch.

In the English countryside, bizarre murders have been occurring as some of the women in the village have been drained of their age and killed instantly. A local Doctor named Marcus (John Carson) calls upon a vampire killer named Kronos (Horst Janson) along with hump-backed assistant Grost (John Cater) to investigate these strange occurrences. They team up with lovely gypsy (Caroline Munro) as they fight this unique kind of vampire creature that drains youth/lifeforces/souls/energy instead of blood yet also turns people into soul-draining vampires.Brilliant and very original Hammer production! this is probably their second best movie besides "Horror of Dracula" and one of my favorite movies since i was a kid. What is really outstanding that it has a breath of fresh air over the tired same old bloodsucking vampire routine as instead it goes for the energy-draining psychic vampire routine told in vampire legends mainly in Asia to Japan where they have vampires of that sort. The movies "Sleepwalkers", "Lifeforce" and others besides this have told of this kind of vampire on the big screen. The vampires in this movie do cast reflections and can walk in the daylight, Grost even educates the audiences there is more than one species of vampire when there are other kinds of vampires in the world that have powers different than any of the Dracula kind and can be killed in any way.The performances are very good, it's loaded with action and charisma peppered with a few humorous moments and a new twist to the vampire legend. Miss Munro is lovely as usual and this film has a nice combination of vampire flick and swashbuckler all rolled in one. This movie was a major inspiration to the Blade movies, Van Helsing, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and even the Castlevania games.A must watch! it also teaches people there is more than one kind of vampire to hit the screen when there are other legends.