Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter

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                                                                                     6******skulls</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>*Blood* *Violent* *No Strong Language* *No nudity* *No Sexual Situations* *Not Particularly Gory*</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1973/Color/91 Min./Paramount Pictures & Hammer Film Productions Ltd./ England/Rated PG</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director............Brian Clemens</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Brian Clemens</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Laurie Johnson</B></div> <div> <B>Producers.........Albert Fennell & Brian Clemens</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up by Jim Evans</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Kronos..............Horst Janson (Murphy's War, To Catch a King)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Marcus.........John Carson(Creature from Black Lake,The Savageis Loose)</B></div> <div> <B>Paul Durward.,,.Shane Briant (Cassandra,Grievous Bodily Harm,Shaker Run)</B></div> <div> <B>Carla.................Caroline Munro (Don't Open Til Christmas, Maniac)</B></div> <div> <B>Grost.................John Cater</B></div> <div> <B>Sara Durward....Lois Daine</B></div> <div> <B>Hagan...............William Hobbs</B></div> <div> <B>George Sorell...Brian Tully</B></div> <div> <B>Pointer..............Robert James</B></div> <div> <B>Barlow..............Perry Soblosky</B></div> <div> <B>Giles.................Paul Greenwood</B></div> <div> <B>Vanda Sorell..,,Lisa Collings</B></div> <div> <B>Barman............John Hollis</B></div> <div> <B>Kerro................Ian Hendry (Children of the Damned, Repulsion)</B></div> <div> <B>Lady Durward...Wanda Ventham</B></div> <div> <B>Whore...............Penny Price</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: A swashbuckling vampire killer? Oddly, Kronos' assistant Grost is the most likable character as we never form a bond with Captain Kronos. Also surprising was the lack of vampire hunting in which Kronos engaged. He is generally content to simply sit around and drink, badger the locals, or have sex. Indeed, he's more of a Captain Kirk than a Van Helsing. A new and brilliant anti-vampire move is introduced when assistant Grost paints some crosses on Kronos' neck. The dead toad gag (they re-animate when a vampire passes) to find vampires and the empirical method used on Marcus to discover the way to kill this subspecies are fun innovations on the old story. In other vampire innovations, we didn't like it when one woman was attacked in a chapel, which should be safe ground. There is some kind of confused Nibelungenlied typology going on here: Mien/Grost? The forger of Sigfried's/Kronos' blade? Hagen the swordsman as Kronos'/Sigfried's murderer?, however, it doesn't make sense. In the end, a watchable mix-genre effort, with some good action and humor, but not quite enough horror to balance the effect.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary:</U></B><B> As a woman preens before a river bed, she is approached by a man who casts no image in her mirror. Soon there's blood on the mirror. Her friend Ann returns and finds that the youth has been sucked out of her. As he rides across the countryside, Captain Kronos comes to a young woman in the stockade for dancing on Sunday and sets her free. Professor Hieronomous Grost, and Captain Kronos of the Imperial Guard get to know Carla. Meanwhile young Isabella, victim 2 stumbles into her home with youth sucked out. The next day Kronos arrives at the home of Dr. Marcus, an old friend who has summoned him to help with the suddenly aging women. Grost explains to Marcus that there are many species of vampires and many ways to kill them. Grost suspects mesmerism and vampires who drain their victims of life rather than blood. Vampires in Derwood? Carla is flirting with Kronos as a bloody bell rings in the town and Grost and Kronos hurry to the church. At the grave of the great swordsman Hagen Derwood a wreath is laid seven years to the day after his death. Derwood died of the plague. Derwood's son explains that his mother blames Dr. Marcus for not being able to save him and that the accelerated aging process she displays is due to grief. Grost and Carla meanwhile are busy placing toads in holes and marking the sites with ribbons then Carla and Kronos have sex while the two older men play chess and drink wine. Nearby a young man and woman part at their trysting place and as the woman heads home, the man hears a scream and arrives to see her dying of old age. Kronos arrives on the scene and the young man reports that she was never completely out of his sight and that the girl had seen someone "very old". Kronos digs up a toad that they had buried and it hops away, proving the vampire had strode over its grave. The vampire hunts those who are young and fair. At the tavern, Kero and his roughneck friend insult and intimidate the local folk. Kero is offered money by a stranger for some unknown purpose. Dr. Marcus drops in on Paul Derwood in his manor house. Paul has out a book on witchcraft and necromancy. Sarah, Paul's sister, is a bit mysterious. When Kronos arrives at the bar asking about a coach, Kero starts insulting him and Grost. This turns out to have been an error. Dr. Marcus starts hearing a hushed whispering and goes to investigate. He approaches a man in a cowl but the man disappears leaving only a drop of blood on his glove. Kronos relaxes by letting some leaches suck his blood for a while. Soon Kronos watches a woman traipse through the woods, but they lose sight of her and she's attacked by a bat. Sarah's concerned about how old her mother looks but Paul tells her that because they are Derwoods by birth, they will not age as others do. Kronos' sister had become a vampire and bit him. He was forced to kill both her and his mother. Marcus looks in the mirror and realizes he's become a vampire and killed the girl in the forest. Marcus pleads with them to kill him. They haul out a sharpened stake and pierce him but there's no effect. They try hanging him, but that doesn't work either. Holding a fire before him, he twists away and his cross pierces him, killing him. Someone watches the proceedings from outside. Some townsfolk are told about what's happened and they come to make it a life for a life. Cronos swashbuckles out of it and Grost then forges him a more cruciform sword. Grost throws a dead toad under Derwood's carriage and finds it alive. They're narrowing in. Kronos approaches the Derwoods as they pay respects to their father's grave. It looks like they are the vampires. Carla is set as bait, wandering into the Derwood's estate, claiming to be hiding from an evil father. They take her in while Kronos pitons his way into the house. As Carla is mesmerized, we wonder if Kronos can get to her in time. It turns out that the Castiens, the mother's family had the dark secrets. Mother's crone visage was just a mask. She brings her husband back from the dead as well and he is the shrouded man and Cronos must fight for his life against the entire vampire brood.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>