Originally posted on 3/27/21
Currently rewatching: One of Hammer's best films, "Captain Kronos" (1974) with Horst Janson and Caroline Munro.
A big plus is its connection to my favorite TV show, "The Avengers" -- it's produced by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens and written and directed by Clemens, with music by Laurie Johnson.
Original "Avenger" Ian Hendry (who played John Steed's partner in season one of that show) appears as a bad guy who crosses swords with Kronos in a tavern scene that pays homage to spaghetti westerns.
Kronos is a former military officer who hunts vampires after his sister and mother fell victim to the curse and he had to kill them after being bitten by them himself.
Here, he finds himself and his hunchbacked partner Grost in a village where young women are being drained of their youth in a nearby dark forest by a mysterious cloaked assailant.
The premise foreshadows that of the later "Blade." The blend of swashbuckler and Gothic vampire hunter works very well. The film is wonderfully atmospheric and well done in all respects.
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