Starring Horst Janson, John Carson, Shane Briant, Caroline Munro, John Cater
Directed by Brian Clemens
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A sword-wielding vampire hunter and his hunchbacked assistant hunt a new kind of vampire, one whose bite drains young women of youth.
One of Hammer's best regarded films from their later days as a company comes courtesy of Clemens (who also wrote the screenplay) who has crafted a very entertaining vampire tale with lots of action and adventure and a bit of mystery. Janson as the titular hero is soft-spoken and a bit of a mystery himself, without much to say about himself or his background, but it works for the film, blessed with good supporting performances from Cater as the hunchbacked professor who knows the vampire mythology well, and Munro as the lovely damsel Kronos liberates. Ian Wilson's cinematography is superb, capturing rich colors in the rustic backgrounds on display, and Laurie Johnson's music score is engaging, very reminiscent of the work of Bernard Herrmann. Although this was the only Kronos film, I know several who would have liked to have seen further installments in his adventures, and I echo that sentiment as well.
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